Logo
Quote by Nat Hentoff
Why has slamming a ball with a racquet become so obsessive a pleas

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

Other quotes by Nat Hentoff
No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Tennis
category

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

Category:
Tennis

Tennis is an addiction that once it has truly hooked a man will not let him go. – Russell Lynes

Category:
Tennis

The serve was invented so that the net could play. – Bill Cosby

Category:
Tennis

In tennis the addict moves about a hard rectangle and seeks to ambush a fuzzy ball with a modified snow-shoe. – Elliot Chaze

Category:
Tennis

Random Quotes

I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get. – Richard M. Nixon

Category:
cool

If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion. – Naguib Mahfouz

Category:
Religion

May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that faith is even more difficult for Him than it is for us? – W. H. Auden

Category:
Faith

Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. – Swedish proverb

Category:
Best Friends