Famous Quotes / Bill Tilden
Bill Tilden: "Tennis is more than just a sport. It's an art, like the ballet. Or like a performance in the theater. When I step on the court I feel like Anna Pavlova. Or like Adelina Patti. Or even like Sarah Bernhardt. I see the footlights in front of me. I hear the whisperings of the audience. I feel an icy shudder. Win or die! Now or never! It's the crisis of my life."
Adelina | Anna | Audience | Ballet |
Bernhardt | Court | Crisis | Even |
Feel | Footlights | Front | Hear |
Just | Life | Patti | Pavlova |
Performance | Sarah | Shudder | Sport |
Step | Tennis | Theater | Whisperings |