"I began playing in the Pacific Coast Indoor Tennis Championships."
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"Tennis just a game, family is forever."
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"I am here to play women's tennis. I'm a lady. Predominantly, most of the time I always like to play ladies."
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"I would be really excellent in a horror film because I have a great scream. I'd be really good in a comedy too. I'm top, top, top quality."
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"I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down."
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"Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player."
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"To Yossarian, the idea of pennants as prizes was absurd. No money went with them, no class privileges. Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else."
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"A good deal of education consists of unlearning-the breaking of bad habits as with a tennis serve."
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"They were adored by the Germans, who thought they were exactly what Englishmen ought to be. They made war look stylish and reasonable, and fun... They were dressed half for battle, half for tennis or croquet."
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"A traditional fixture at Wimbledon is the way the BBC TV commentary box fills up with British players eliminated in the early rounds."
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"Tennis is a game of angles. You never have time to figure the angles. It's practiced. It's so practiced that it becomes an instinct. You just know where to put the ball. You just feel it. It has been computed into your brain so many times it is there."
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"I used to be told if I talked about my sexuality in any way that we wouldn't have a tennis tour."
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"Let no one say that I have said nothing new... the arrangement of the subject is new. When we play tennis, we both play with the same ball, but one of us places it better."
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"I did a really good job of sticking to the tennis court."
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"We don't talk about tennis. I figure she knows what she's doing. I mean, what am I going to tell her?"
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"I talked with Tom Hanks. I saw that movie 'Turner and Hooch' at least 50 times. It took all my guts to go up to him. I went up to him, I was like, 'Can I have a picture?' We talked acting; he wanted to know what I was doing. We talked a little tennis. I mean, he knew all about myself and my sister."
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"A man will reveal his true self, or so it seems, on the tennis court."
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"The Benson and Hedges Cup was won by McEnroe ... he was as charming as always, which means that he was as charming as a dead mouse in a loaf of bread."
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"Like a Volvo, Bjorn Borg is rugged, has good after-sales service, and is very dull."
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"We need to remember that we can't compete endlessly with other nations that set their income taxes substantially lower than ours. They will attract jobs, and investment. They may generate more tax - and they may even persuade their tennis champs to run that extra half yard"
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