Quotes About Enthusiasm

I think, for me, I just really want to have fun with every match that I play because tennis is a game.

Tennis, at times, I follow, but not much.

So there is not a lot about me that you don't know other than that I play table tennis. I'm great, I'm great at table tennis! You will look at me and go, 'How does that dude know how to play that well?'

It was different when I was young, aged 20, playing the French Open. I didn't have so much experience. I just played tennis because I loved the game.

I've been playing tennis, and just whatever sport is in front of me I will do.

I dislike the gym, but I'll chase a tennis ball all day.

I did everything - swimming, dancing, and badminton as well as tennis. It was always tennis that I really loved, though.

I learnt tennis, swimming, basketball and several others, but the sport I loved the most was golf.

When I don't enjoy it anymore, I'll stop. But I think as long as people want me to be where the action is, I'll be there. I just love to play tennis.

I'm really happy to be back on the court to play tennis, to really do what I love.

I really enjoy tennis, but football's the game for me.

I play tennis because I like it.

I would blast AC/DC and walk out onto the tennis court and try to hit the ball hard.

I'm an ardent tennis player. I'm like an overenthusiastic child out there and I've damaged my back. It's not that it's crippling pain, more mental anguish.

The problem is too often they are boring, and boring in a meeting happens for the same reason as in a book or movie - when there is not enough compelling tension. Meetings should be intense.

Normally you have more adrenaline, and more tension inside your body when you walk in and see the 80,000 fans screaming.

It's been a huge part of my life in the past few years, and I just couldn't turn my back on all that - the bakers themselves, the bakes, the team that makes it, and of course the tent, the bunting, and who could forget... the squirrels. So I am delighted that I will be continuing as a judge when 'Bake Off' moves to Channel 4.

The term 'geek' for me is like you having a passion, interest in something that is unabashed and you don't care if people think it's not cool. You think it's cool and that's your thing.

My gift, if that's not too grandiose a term, is one for describing novels, biographies, and works of history in such a way that people want to read them.

Better to go than sit around being a terrible old bore.

I'm not terribly good at being around work I don't care about!

People forget that writers start off being readers. We all love it when we find a terrific read, and we want to let people know about it.

The Merseyside derby is a terrific game full of passion, full of quality.

I think, as a younger actor, you are more open to the experience. And to an extent, you want to go into things blind and energised as if you were 15. Keep that terror.