Tennis Quotes

Well, my mum's been a tennis coach - she coached me till I was 12.

I've always been lucky enough to just play tennis, so I never actually had a job when I was growing up.

Everything in tennis is so neat and nice but boxing has sport down to its essence; it is very pure and I like that.

It would have been better if I had won, but reaching the final was perfect.

Sometimes you're looking to play perfect tennis but it's not going to happen all the time and you have to accept it.

You are always talking about yourself and tennis and how you are feeling. I try to avoid it when I don't have to.

I'm not the savior of men's tennis in America. I'm just a kid trying to win a few matches.

There's no home team in tennis, no built-in fan base, so the players have to step up and do their fair share.

There's no doubt there are issues with clay. Our issues have issues that are issues right now. That's not a secret.

No, actually I wanted to play five. I definitely wanted to try to lose that fourth set and test the waters in the fifth.

I don't want to live and die with every point that's being played out there now. I'm going to let my coach live and die with every point.

Is that the longest fifth set ever? It was? So, no, I've never played one longer than that!

If I wore a sleeveless shirt, people would try to feed me after the match.

I think I've always had a decent perspective on wins and losses on the tennis court.

I don't think I'm one of those guys who won't pick up a racket for three years...I love hitting tennis balls.

I am sure every writer has this and probably every newscaster, that people are always coming up to me and saying, my daughter wants to do what you do, my godson, my tennis partner.

It was a good shot, but he didn't execute it very well.

I love being outdoors, playing beach tennis, going for runs in the sand, or doing a three-hour hike with my best girlfriend, Mieko.

There is a terrific apprehension among some people that blacks will take over the sport... It will create problems because their behavior, speech and dress is just a completely different culture.

If I didn't play tennis I probably would have to see a psychiatrist.

Martina's like the old Green Bay Packers. You know exactly what she's going to do, but there isn't a thing you can do about it.

My family belongs to a tennis club in Valencia, California, so I always go there. I play a lot of tennis with my dad and swim. And I like to go to the gym there.

I have so much respect for [Bernie Ecclestone] for what he did with this sport. He did so much more than people in tennis or football.

China needs a table-tennis-like solidity in football.

I enjoy hanging out with friends, going on hikes and playing tennis. I also enjoy Bible study and making dinners. I have a pretty mellow life away from the water.

Every generation I think gets better usually [in tennis].

It's very important to take tennis to the people. For young people, they get to see the best in the world.

As far as U.S. tennis, we need new stars coming up in the pipeline, but I don't know if we have it.

I always wanted to help make tennis a team sport.

I like putting money back into what made my life, and tennis has been great to me.

I'm amazed that years after I stopped playing tennis, people still recognize me in restaurants and ask for my autograph.

I play tennis five hours a week, from Monday to Friday, for one hour every day. I like to be fit. If I can't exercise, I feel bad - I need to sweat and run to feel like I'm in good shape.

You know growing up in Sweden meant we had a lot of rain when we played tennis. We were taught on clay courts but because of the weather, we had to go indoors a lot.

Andre Sa is playing close to his potential - maybe even above it.

I'm always an entrepreneur, but I'd probably be a teacher. I like teaching kids, whether that's tennis on the courts or history in the classroom.

Anybody who can dial a telephone can master tennis scoring in about 15 minutes.

I don't play tennis at all.

If I'm on holiday, I'm active on the beach, I play tennis, I run, I swim a lot. It's just about making the workouts fun, I think, and then it doesn't really feel that bad.

I always preferred working with somebody so I could look into their eyeballs and play tennis.

Golf can be tougher than tennis when things go wrong, because you can't explain things by saying that your opponent played better than you. It's a cruel sport in that way.

Before I got addicted to comedy, I was seriously thinking about playing tennis full time. I joined the tennis team and played with a lot of professionals.

I'm actually pretty good at tennis. Well, if I'm in the Special Olympics or something.

Of all my achievements in tennis, I'm probably as proud of my record on clay courts as any of my Wimbledon, U.S. Open or French singles titles.

Relationships are give-and-take, and when you're a tennis player, you're certainly not giving. You have to be self-absorbed. It has to be about you.

It was so inspiring for me to watch tennis growing up. I thought I was really good playing, until my brother told me I wasn't!

He's now letting Chang play his own game - and he does that better than anyone.

Why I love chess and tennis - the volleying aspect, and the fact that your competitors' reactions and motivations and bluffs come into the game itself.

Maybe I could survive in one of those resort prisons where they house white-collar criminals. I've always wanted to get better at tennis.

Once I caught my dad in front of the TV watching a tennis match, and I realized they were tricking us. Poor guy, he had to sneak in a tennis final - probably the French Open.

Bjorn Borg looks like a hunchbacked, jut-bottomed version of Lizabeth Scott, impersonating a bearded Apache princess.