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

Other quotes by Jacques Barzun
Other Quotes from
Tennis
category

A perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquility. – Billie Jean King, about tennis

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

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

Category:
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

Category:
Tennis

Random Quotes

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, Huh. It works. It makes sense. – Barack Obama

Category:
good

Because I didnt have brothers, I was always interested in the kids down the street that had four brothers in their family, so I became one of them – but it was not my family. – Gus Van Sant

Category:
Family

Thats the great thing about a tractor. You cant really hear the phone ring. – Jeff Foxworthy

Category:
great

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they see nothing but sea. – Francis Bacon

Category:
Discovery