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Quote by Yannick Noah
I have always considered tennis as a combat in an arena between tw

I have always considered tennis as a combat in an arena between two gladiators who have their racquets and their courage as their weapons. – Yannick Noah

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Downtown, one has less time. But there are in Europe much people who have the faith, in South America, too. – Yannick Noah

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Faith
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Yannick Noah
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I believe in Karma. If the good is sown, the good is collected. When positive things are made, that returns well. – Yannick Noah

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good
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Tennis
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Speed in tennis is a strange mixture of intuition, guesswork, footwork and hair-trigger reflexes. Many of the players famed for quickness on court would finish dead last in a field of schoolgirls in a race over any distance more than ten yards. – Eugene Scott

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Tennis

Tennis belongs to the individualistic past – a hero, or at most a pair of friends or lovers, against the world. – Jacques Barzun

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Tennis

The primary conception of tennis is to get the ball over the net and at the same time to keep it within bounds of the court; failing this, within the borders of the neighborhood. – Elliot Chaze

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Tennis

Why has slamming a ball with a racquet become so obsessive a pleasure for so many of us? It seems clear to me that a primary attraction of the sport is the opportunity it gives to release aggression physically without being arrested for felonious assault. – Nat Hentoff

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Tennis

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