Famous quotes containing the words lawn, tennis and/or balls:
“On the lawn at the villa
Thats the way to start, eh, reader?
We know where we standsomewhere expensive”
—Louis Simpson (b. 1923)
“I know some of my self-worth comes from tennis, and its hard to think of doing something else where you know youll never be the best. Tennis players are rare creatures: where else in the world can you know that youre the best? The definitiveness of it is the beauty of it, but its not all there is to life and Im ready to explore the alternatives.”
—Martina Navratilova (b. 1956)
“If the head is lost, all that perishes is the individual; if the balls are lost, all of human nature perishes.”
—François Rabelais (14941553)