217 Quotes About Tennis

Like most North Americans of his generation, Hal tends to know way less about why he feels certain ways about the objects and pursuits he's devoted to than he does about the objects and pursuits themselves. It's hard to say for sure whether this is even exceptionally bad, this tendency.

Her mouth opens in a shocked little “o,” and I know I’ve got her. Now that we’re not teammates, I’m going to make Harley mine.

That guy playing tennis?” Link rested his fingers along Camille’s hips. “Not a chance.”I followed the movement of his fingertips, the slight pressure he exerted on her. A vision of him with a knife protruding from his neck made me smile.Link returned my grin. “You imagining him on the court too?”“Yes, funny.

Well, with that filly in my line of vision blushing like a virgin, something in me was bound to stand at attention. And my walking legs were occupied.

He was working that charm right now on the trainer who kneeled before him and touched his thigh as though it were the thigh of David, Michelangelo’s glorious statue come to life right here on court.

In most sports, like in tennis, love means nothing.

I didn't cry when they buried my father - I wouldn't let myself. I didn't cry when they buried my sister. On Thursday night, with my family asleep upstairs, my eyes filled as Agassi and Marcos Baghdatis played out the fifth set of their moving second-round match.

By batting a ball back and forth over a net one forgets all one's worries, one even forgets about death.

In any game, the game itself is the prize, no matter who wins, ultimately both lose the game.