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Robert Frost
: Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
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I would as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.
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Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
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The powerful play goes on -- and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?
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Martina Hingis :
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One day you can be a kid, but another day you have to be like this is your job, you play tennis. You have to work for that.
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Alice Munro :
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I can't play bridge. I don't play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn't seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.
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What is the single most important quality in a tennis champion? I would have to say desire, staying in there and winning matches when you are not playing that well.
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Arthur Ashe :
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"I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments," he once said. "That's no contribution to society. That [tennis] was purely selfish; that was for me."
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Will Ferrell :
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How classy is it for me to wear these pink tennis shoes with my tux?
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Pete Sampras :
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I let my racket do the talking. That's what I am all about, really. I just go out and win tennis matches.
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I love tennis with a passion. I challenged Boris Becker to a match once and he said he was up for it but he never called back. I bet I could make him run around.
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Maureen Connolly :
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Tennis can be a grind and there's always the danger of going stale if you think about it too much. You can get embittered if you train too hard and have nothing else on your mind. You have to be able to relax between matches and between tournaments.
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In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.
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The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
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The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
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A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
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Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
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Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
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A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
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The best way out of a difficulty is through it.
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The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
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