A good follow-through is just as important in management as it is in bowling, tennis, or golf. Follow-through is the bridge between good planning and good results.
- Anonymous

By the way, what a polite game tennis is. The chief word in it seems to be “sorry” and admiration of each other’s play crosses the net as frequently as the ball.
- Sir James Matthew Barrie

Business is a lot like a game of tennis – those who serve well usually end up winning.
- Anonymous

Good shot, bad luck, and hell are the five basic words to be used in a game of tennis, though these, of course, can be slightly amplified.
- Virginia Graham

If you can react the same way to, winning and losing, that’s a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there’s going to be a life after tennis.
- Chris Evert

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

Let no one say that I have said nothing new; the arrangement of the subject is new. When we play tennis, we both play with the same ball, but one of us places it better.
- Blaise Pascal

Tennis has always been a big challenge to me and to be able to play that kind of tennis – well, only tennis can produce these feelings for me.
- Steffi Graf

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

Tennis is not a gentle game. Psychologically, it is vicious. That people are only just beginning to come to terms with this fact illustrates just how big a con trick has been perpetrated on the non-playing tennis public – and even a few players, usually losing players – for decades.
- Richard Evans

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

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

Though your game is hardly the best, ou can fray your opponent’s nerves; by methodically bouncing the ball. at least ten times before your serves.
- Arnold J. Zarett

Upon gaining a wildcard bid to the US Open Tennis Championships: That’s great – I’m only seven wins away from my first grand slam title.
- Justin Gimelstob

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

When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn’t play tennis.I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again.
- Hugo L. Black