Tennis Quotes

Roscoe Tanner seems to have found a way of making his service go even faster, so that the ball is now quite invisible, like Stealth, the American supersonic bomber which nobody has ever seen.

John McEnroe looks as if he is serving round the edge of an imaginary building.

John McEnroe has hair like badly turned broccoli.

It was reported that Anna Kournikova is coming out with her own brand of deodorant. Apparently, the ads show Kournikova holding up her deodorant and saying now only her tennis game stinks.

I was very lucky in as much as I played a lot of tennis.

There are lots of women tennis players, for instance, but because not many of them seem to have much personality, they're interchangeable. You don't have a feeling about them.

Yeah, I think there are many other important things in life, not just tennis.

I guess the attention paid to appearance is something that belongs to tennis too.

Nothing is etched in stone in tennis until the final point has been played. That's why we watch.

The pace of this match is really accelerating, by which I mean it's getting faster all the time.

Wimbledon is getting a bit too like Royal Ascot. It's not what happens or who wins so much, as what clothes do I have on.

I love tennis, love it!

When I need to relax, I love to go to the movies or watch a good TV series. I also practice a lot of sport, mostly tennis and swimming.

I have tennis shoes with little rhinestones that I slip on if I exercise. But I always wear heels, even around the house. I'm such a short little thing, I can't reach my kitchen cabinets.

Tennis is such an individual and competitive sport, but it is great being part of a team and getting to know the girls outside of tennis - even though we are all competing for the same thing!

Do I play tennis? Man, I had one of the baddest overhead rights of anyone. Bam!

My mom, she's from Ireland, coached tennis in Nigeria when she was a missionary and turned me on to it when I was young.

I love tennis. Without it I don't know what I would do.

I felt tight from the beginning of the match to the end. I couldn't relax.

Rob Lowe is a sportsman and a ladykiller and it's impossible to be in a scene with him and not immediately begin to play tennis.

I dance a lot and I run and do yoga and play field hockey and tennis. I like to be active. I don't always have time for that stuff, but I do always feel better afterward.

There are few things in this world more satisfying than having your son teach you how to play tennis, unless it is having a semi-truck run over your foot.

It's something I really love to do. I mean, I don't see myself without tennis.

I loved to play, I was competitive, I wanted to win, that was all I knew. In the first few years tennis is a game. Later, it becomes a job.

I carried through well with my tennis. I got the respect by usage of the tennis racket.

It was very hard for me to practice and enjoy my tennis, and I didn't know the why, so I worked with psychologists to try and see what was happening. They pushed me really hard.

It was so easy to play tennis, so easy.

I never thought tennis was going to give me so much satisfaction.

In Argentina at various tournaments, it's great. Every day it's full, everybody's crazy about tennis, everybody wants to play tennis.

It's a great moment for Argentinean tennis, more on the men's side. I would like to see more on the women's side. I think we have to work a little bit more on that.

When I started out jumping around with a tennis racket, I never thought I would end up on a list of the best guitar players in the world. It makes me feel proud of the hard work I've put in.

There are not many Irish people playing tennis!

If I stay healthy and I'm playing good tennis I have as good a chance as anybody.

When you are very little tennis should be fun, it should be a game.

I don't do a huge amount of physical activity. I play tennis, I work out sporadically, and I eat well and take care of myself.

If you see a tennis player who looks as if he is working hard, that means he isn't very good.

I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.

A tennis racket makes a great fake guitar!

I don't think I've ever held a racket in my hand ... There's got to be somebody in the US who isn't trying to play tennis and stinking up the court.

I'm deadly serious even when I play tennis against my kids. I want to beat their brains out.

To see Good Tennis! What divine joy Can fill our leisure, or our minds employ? Let other people play at other things; The King of Games is still the Game of Kings.

Seems like most of the kids today are into other sports other than tennis.

I would like to see it go back to the wood racquets. To see the touch put back in tennis.

Thanks. For everything. I mean it.’ A slow grin edged onto his face. ‘You’re worth it…Princess.’ Her tennis show hit the door a second after it closed.

Tennis lets you talk while you're playing.

I'm a big sports guy - golf, tennis, baseball, basketball, snowboarding - and I love games.

I'm very interested in tennis, but when I try to tell younger players about [Bill] Tilden, they're not interested.

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

She [Serena Williams] played some great shots, but so did I, and that was the only difference.

What I want out of tennis is not necessarily just winning.