64 Ping Pong Quotes

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Famous Ping Pong Quotes

I can shoot pool, and I can play ping-pong. I'm pretty good at those games. — Thelonious Monk

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

It's important for the young players to practice other ball games as well, basketball or table tennis. On the tennis court, you can improve your eye through a kind of overexertion. — Rafael Nadal

Playing polo is like trying to play golf during an earthquake. - Sylvester Stallone

Playing polo is like trying to play golf during an earthquake. — Sylvester Stallone

One of the greatest joys of tennis is having a nice volley and not really keeping score, not really looking at the lines, but just catching up with each other. — Jane Kaczmarek

I'll let the racket do the talking. — John McEnroe

Life is like a tennis game. You can't win without serving. — Arthur Ashe

One travels like a golf ball, hopping from green to green. - John Gunther

One travels like a golf ball, hopping from green to green. — John Gunther

Those who play badminton well take decisions quickly. — Dmitry Medvedev

They throw the ball, I hit it. They hit the ball, I catch it. - Willie Mays

They throw the ball, I hit it. They hit the ball, I catch it. — Willie Mays

If you can keep playing tennis when somebody is shooting a gun down the street, that's concentration. — Serena Williams

I like to play snooker, golf as well. — John Terry

It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square. — Pete Rose

The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon. - Douglas William Jerrold

The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon. — Douglas William Jerrold

It's like trying to pin down a kangaroo on a trampoline. - Sid Waddell

It's like trying to pin down a kangaroo on a trampoline. — Sid Waddell

Short Ping Pong Quotes

  • Snooker is just chess with balls. — Clive James
  • Make a game out of practice, you're still a child at heart — Harvey Penick
  • To play billiards well is the sign of a misspent youth. — Herbert Spencer
  • Tennis is a mental game. Everyone is fit, everyone hits great forehands and backhands. — Novak Djokovic
  • See the ball; hit the ball. — Pete Rose
  • I play each point like my life depends on it. — Rafael Nadal
  • Turn your sparring into play - but always play seriously. — Bruce Lee
  • It is better to play than do nothing. — Confucius
  • Well, boys, it's a round ball and a round bat and you got to hit the ball square. — Joe Schultz
  • It's so bad I could putt off a tabletop and still leave the ball halfway down the leg. — J. C. Snead

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More Ping Pong Quotes

Health care historically has been a very siloed field that's organized around medical specialties - urology, cardiac surgery, and so forth - and around the supply of these specialty services. The patient is the ping-pong ball that moves from service to service. — Michael Porter

Ping-pong was invented on the dining tables of England in the 19th century, and it was called Wiff-waff! And there, I think, you have the difference between us and the rest of the world. Other nations, the French, looked at a dining table and saw an opportunity to have dinner; we looked at it an saw an opportunity to play Wiff-waff. — Boris Johnson

I don't believe in bodybuilders using steroids. If a man doesn't have enough male hormones in his system to create, a nice hard, muscular body, he should take up ping pong. — Steve Reeves

Have you ever played ping pong up against a wall? You get exhausted a lot quicker than playing against someone. It's the same with getting angry. If you keep getting angry on your own, all that anger will just come back to you. — Taeyang

In my twenties I tried cocaine, which I instantly loved but eventually hated. Cocaine is terrific if you want to hang out with people you don't know very well and play Ping-Pong all night. It's bad for almost everything else. — Amy Poehler

I'm one of six children. I'd love to sound educated and say I dive into a good book when I'm there, but in truth, I spend time with the kids playing cards, ping-pong, and board games. — Kate Spade

I don't have many hobbies. If I think of hobbies, maybe ping pong. But I don't have a desire to get a ping pong medal. — James Franco

Have you ever seen a demonstrable example of equality in your entire life? Can it be glimpsed in any dog show or classroom? In any ping pong game or chess match? Of course not. It is a philosophical abstraction, something nowhere to be found in nature. — Boyd Rice

I hate dainty minds,' answered Marjorie. 'But a girl has to be dainty in person. If she looks like a million dollars she can talk about Russia, ping-pong, or the League of Nations and get away with it. — F. Scott Fitzgerald

I'm an extra dark black belt in ping pong. — Sayings

Whatever I do, I love to win. I don't care if it's tennis or ping pong, I'll kill myself to win it. — Andy Pettitte

The meeting was like a war council with donuts. Then again, back at Camp Half-Blood they used to have their most serious discussions around the Ping-Pong table in the rec room with crackers and Cheez Whiz, so Percy felt right at home. — Rick Riordan

Whether it's pool or Ping Pong, I can't stand to have my kids beat me. Especially Ping Pong! And when they beat me, they just needle the devil out of me. That's fine. I'd rather have that than let them win a shallow victory. — Jack Nicklaus

I'm a wicked ping-pong player. — David Baldacci

I mean, how many young women get a set of rubies just for doing something wholesome like swimming laps? Or win a diamond ring at Ping-Pong with their husband... ? Well, I did, and for all of these memories and the people in my life I feel blessed. — Elizabeth Taylor

..."And then we played Ping-Pong—” “Not pool? I always assumed he was a billiards man—I mean, it’s so handy the way he keeps a stick up his— — Claire LaZebnik

Wrestling and boxing is like Ping-Pong and rugby. There's no connection. — Mickey Rourke

I kind of like the ping-pong coach aspect; it somehow fits, and I don't know how. — Jeffrey Dean Morgan

The two sports are as different as Ping-Pong and rugby. In boxing, you don’t know what’s going to happen. In wrestling, it’s already prearranged. But the thing I didn’t know about wrestling is that you really get hurt. Because, you know, you’re wrestling in front of a live audience, and you end up doing things like jumps or slams, and 40 percent of the time you don’t land right. — Mickey Rourke

All of my activities are so pedestrian. The extreme sport I play is ping pong. And we play it hard. If any of you suckers want to step up to the table, be ready. — Seth Green

A surgeon might want to be the best surgeon in Manhattan, but out on Long Island on the weekend, not care at all how he is on the tennis courts or on the Ping-Pong table. Even turning your competitiveness off when it's appropriate, when other people are not being competitive, to recognize that social circumstance and, you know, cool it. That's a crucial competitive skill. — Po Bronson

We operate from this position of, "Let's build the skeleton and then insert the filling." We have this ping-pong dynamic with each other where we're able to try different things and bounce different ideas, and it ends up being us building our music together. I've never had a moment where I've been like, "I don't like it." Actually, that's total bullshit. I've had many moments where I'm like, "I don't like it," but it's always evolving. — Sarah Jaffe

I really want to start playing basketball. Basketball and ping-pong are my two forms of exercise. — Kim Gordon

It's almost impossible to have fun playing ping pong with someone who doesn't care, won't try or isn't any good. — Seth Godin

My mom played every sport possible. My dad is 'extremely' competitive. You can't even play Ping-Pong with him. — Kate Upton

We sailed to Italy on the Andrea Doria, a year before it sank, and Zoot (Sims) and I played a lot of ping-pong on deck during that trip. Zoot sparked that [Gerry Mulligan's] sextet in an extraordinary way, soloing with joyous abandon and infusing the ensemble parts with his special brand of swing. — Bill Crow

London is the sporting capital of the world. I say to the Chinese and I say to the world, ping pong is coming home. — Boris Johnson

Another tormentor inquired if it was true that I had installed two ping-pong tables in my basement. I asked, was it a crime? No, he said, but why two? Is that a crime? I countered, and they all laughed. — Vladimir Nabokov

I kind of was shoveled onto a boat at 11 and went to England. I didn't have any parent watching over me. It was very free and may have been a bit of a scary time for me, but I really don't remember much about the voyage apart from playing ping-pong a lot with a couple friends. — Michael Ondaatje

I had never expected that the China initiative would come to fruition in the form of a Ping-Pong team. — Richard M. Nixon

My strong game was ping pong. Relentless... steady. — Marv Albert

It is a fact of life that people give dinner parties, and when they invite you, you have to turn around and invite them back. Often they retaliate by inviting you again, and you must then extend another invitation. Back and forth you go, like Ping-Pong balls, and what you end up with is called social life. — Laurie Colwin

For me writing is so perplexing, because if we were playing ping pong and we weren't writing - twenty years later you'd be just so much better at ping pong and this confidence with ping pong. — Ali Liebegott

It'sthe fate of most Ping-Pong tables in home basements eventually to serve the ends of other, more desperate games. — Jonathan Franzen

I'm not at all competitive. I'd rather play Solitaire than ping-pong. — Johnny Galecki

Sometimes being a dad is like watching a ping-pong match. — Sayings

I’m a big Ping-Pong addict. I love it. — Sayings

Did you think you could dump me, and I'd bounce back to her and miraculously be happy? I'm not a Ping-Pong ball. You can't just swat me back and forth and expect me to be content wherever I land. If Tod dumped you tomorrow, would you come back to me? — Rachel Vincent

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