Life Is Like Tennis Quotes

#1. Life is like tennis. Those who serve best usually win.

David Foster Wallace

#2. For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.

Viktor E. Frankl

#3. People often put me in a V-neck tennis club sweater, driving a Bentley, but my life wasn't like that.

Julian Casablancas

#4. There is a consensus of willing leaders from both parties coalescing around the right way forward in health care. Reform should address government-imposed inequities and barriers to true choice and competition.

Paul Ryan

#5. My mom played tennis for, like, six hours a day and went to college on a tennis scholarship, because that was the way she could go to school. So they instilled in me the idea that you have to work hard for the things you want in life and never complain.

Dakota Fanning

#6. Never give up. Take what life throws at you and throw it right back. If life keeps throwing then you have a tennis match going. Learn to like tennis.

Glenn Ford

#7. Consider my Lover; the yellow church
of his skin, the clean wells of his ears;
How the notes of a song come to him
like birds descending on a power line;
How in his absence I am of two
throats
each of them cramped.

Cecilia Llompart

#8. So I had this completely unrealistic idea of what America was - but I wanted to be there.

Aasif Mandvi

#9. I like putting money back into what made my life, and tennis has been great to me.

Billie Jean King

#10. I really like the smell of the tennis balls, the new ones. I don't need to do it, but it's just my habit, what I do on the court when we change for the new tennis balls. I just smell them. Maybe it's for luck. I've been doing it all my life.

Dominika Cibulkova

#11. The mind gets distracted in all sorts of ways. The heart is its own exclusive concern and diversion.

Malcolm De Chazal

#12. I feel like my whole life only tennis.

Li Na

#13. I feel like I don't have to win anymore. I've had a wonderful career. Tennis has given me so much, things I would have never expected in my life. I feel honored to even be a part of such a wonderful sport.

Serena Williams

#14. I didn't have any agenda or plan when I started writing stuff.

David Byrne

#15. The rule in life is like with tennis: One point won't lose you the match, but if you let it get to you, it will.

David Seller

#16. Mediocrity is already a high standard.

Marty Rubin

#17. I refuse to be stereotyped.

Marissa Mayer

#18. No matter whether you claim a slave by purchase or capture, the title is bad. They who claim to own their fellow-men, look down into the pit and forget the justice that should rule the world.

Zeno Of Citium

#19. I got to a stage where tennis was the only thing in my life, and I didn't like that.

Luke Mitchell

#20. No, like I said, my dad was never really part of the tennis. His involvement around what I did with the tennis and with my mom and my grandparents was really not a part of my life.

Jimmy Connors

#21. I play each point like my life depends on it.

Rafael Nadal

#22. I just feel like it would be so against my personality to have this struggle in tennis and just give up. I know it's not me, not who I am, and that would probably affect other parts of my life.

Michael Chang

#23. Life is like a tennis game. You can't win without serving.

Arthur Ashe

#24. Don't take it personally, she's rude to everyone, said Ron.

J.K. Rowling