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Science fiction is a dialogue, a tennis match, in which the Idea is volleyed from one side of the ne...

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My first job was in sixth grade, sweeping the clay tennis courts at the yacht club near my house, wh...

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The real, many-veiled answer to the question of just what goes through a great player's mind as he s...

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What if, when Tracy Austin writes that after her 1989 car crash, 'I quickly accepted that there was ...

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David Foster WallaceConsider the Lobster and Other Essays

Like most North Americans of his generation, Hal tends to know way less about why he feels certain w...

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And then also, again, still, what are those boundaries, if they’re not baselines, that contain and d...

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LaMont, the truth is that the world is incredibly, incredibly, unbelievably old. You suffer with the...

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Almost anyone who loves tennis and follows the men’s tour on television has, over the last few years...

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David Foster WallaceString Theory: David Foster Wallace on Tennis

Team sports aren't my thing. I find it easier to pick something up if I can do it at my own speed. A...

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When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice...

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Stop trying to treat music like it's a tennis shoe, something to be branded. If the music industry w...

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Tennis was a white, upper-class sport, and I wanted it to be treated like other sports were.

I have never cared especially for outdoor sports and have no desire to excel at tennis, swimming, or...

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I was passionate about soccer. I still am. Odd, though - playing soccer always made me much more anx...

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I have no sense of humor about losing

I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.

When you do something best in life, you don't really want to give that up - and for me it's tennis.

My dad said if you become a tennis professional just make sure you get into the top hundred, because...

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I don't need to come back to Wimbledon every year because I can't live without it. I'd be totally co...

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You always want to win. That is why you play tennis, because you love the sport and try to be the be...

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Tennis and golf are best played, not watched.

Fitness is defined differently by everyone, but for me, the most important thing is being healthy. A...

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I have a passion for playing tennis and enjoy the workload and struggles of performing in this amazi...

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Tennis just a game, family is forever.

In tennis, it is not the opponent you fear, it is the failure itself, knowing how near you were but ...

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Boxing, mixed martial arts and tennis are the hardest sports to train for.

I don't think about tennis 24/7. I enjoy time on the lake at my Florida home and just being lazy on ...

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I like playing tennis. I've always enjoyed the process of being a tennis player; I'm just not sure t...

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