Jacques Barzun's Quote - Tennis belongs to the individualistic past – a hero, or at most a

Quote by Jacques Barzun

Tennis belongs to the individualistic past - a hero, or at most a

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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The test and the use of mans education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind. – Jacques Barzun

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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning. – Jacques Barzun

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Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions. – Jacques Barzun

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

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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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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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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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