Quotes About Tennis Serve

#1. Cooking practice can be expensive and impractical. If you have the time, you can practice your tennis serve a thousand times a day for a few dollars. Making a thousand omelets a day? That's a different story.

Timothy Ferriss

#2. A good deal of education consists of unlearning-the breaking of bad habits as with a tennis serve.

Mary McCarthy

#3. Golf is the only sport I know of where a player pays for every mistake. A man can muff a serve in tennis, miss a strike in baseball, or throw an incomplete pass in football and still have another chance to square himself. In golf, every swing counts against you.

Lloyd Mangrum

#4. The serve was invented so that the net could play.

Bill Cosby

#5. In lawn tennis mixed, the basic chivalry move is to pretend to serve less fiercely to the woman than to the man. This is particularly useful if your first service tends to be out in any case.

Stephen Potter

#6. Karate is not a game. It is not a sport. It is not even a system of self-defense. Karate is half physical exercise and half spiritual. The karateist who has given the necessary years of exercise and meditation is a tranquil person. He is unafraid. He can even be calm in a burning building.

Mas Oyama

#7. Be a thrifty steward of thy goods.

Sophocles

#8. Most people ignore opportunities because they see only danger. Entrepreneurs ignore danger because they see only opportunities.

Simon Sinek

#9. Since I retired, I very much enjoy watching Serena Williams play. While I was playing, she was one of the toughest players I ever faced. Her ground strokes are so solid, her serve is one of the most powerful in women's tennis, and mentally she is just so strong.

Monica Seles

#10. The key to healthy communication is having a willingness to lay aside our defensive tendencies and accept responsibility for our part of the relationship

Asa Don Brown

#11. But forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself.

Jodi Picoult

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

David Foster Wallace

#13. It was the first time I'd really realized I'd lost my soul and that the beauty of not having a soul was that you couldn't seem to care that you no longer had one.

Maggie Stiefvater

#14. Business is like tennis. Those who serve well win.

Ken Blanchard

#15. Fifteen love,' Chris said in a strong, clear voice as he set up for his next serve, and Elizabeth sensed that in addition to announcing the score, he was sending her a special message. A message about love ...

Francine Pascal

#16. I always had a powerful serve. It's one of the best in women's tennis. It's very good to have a weapon like that.

Li Na

#17. The man who lives in division is living in death. He cannot find himself because he is lost; he has ceased to be a reality. The person he believes himself to be is a bad dream.

Thomas Merton

#18. The serve is the only thing you know about yourself when you play tennis. If you make it right, you make it right. Nobody can touch you when you serve. Nobody can disturb you. You have the ball in the hand.

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga

#19. Everything else is temptation.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

#20. I was thinking that if I hit his nuts, maybe he would serve like a woman.

Thomas Muster

#21. Thankfulness and gratitude are the foundation of character and being able to serve others.

Jim Loehr

#22. Corporations have been killing the risk-taking and exploration that makes software great. They have tried to rip the soul out of development.

Brian Behlendorf

#23. I know my serve stinks, but I was a pretty good tennis player.

George H. W. Bush

#24. I got involved in 2003, 2004, with a company called Dance4Life out of Holland.

Tiesto

#25. I confided again that I wanted him, I wanted him to share my loneliness. I wanted him to share all that I could teach and give. Oh, the pain of it! All that I could teach and give.

Anne Rice

#26. Possessing an array of athletic gifts is something most tennis players can only dream about. Most players, if they're lucky, have one attribute that stands out
either a monster serve, great footspeed, superb touch, superior timing or innate feel for the ball.

Dave McPherson

#27. Your game is only as good as your second serve

John Newcombe

#28. For girls, something that accentuates the curves looks sexy. It can be a dress, it can be jeans, it can be a tank top, who cares!

Brody Jenner

#29. The most enduring stories in literature generally have some kind of crime at their center, whether it's the bloody butchery of 'Hamlet,' the lecherous misanthropes of Dickens or the lone gunman from 'The Great Gatsby.'

Karin Slaughter

#30. If I can't serve on grass, I can maybe help cut the grass, paint the lines and serve some strawberries.

Goran Ivanisevic

#31. My serve has killed a small dog ... I'm joking, I'm joking! The dog was huge!

Andy Roddick

#32. The man who persists in knocking will succeed in entering.

Moses Ibn Ezra

#33. A thousand books on tennis won't improve your serve, but a thousand serves will.

Rick DeMarinis

#34. She felt about a love set as a painter does about his masterpiece; each ace serve was a form of brushwork to her, and her fantastically accurate shot-placing was certainly a study in composition.

Janet Flanner

#35. What is life? A gulf of troubled waters, where the soul, like a vexed bark, is tossed upon the waves of pain and pleasure by the wavering breath of passions.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon