Tennis Quotes

I am the greatest tennis player. The other players are like coins in my pocket that I give to a homeless man.

Tennis is mostly mental. Of course, you must have a lot of physical skill, but you can't play tennis well and not be a good thinker. You win or lose the match before you even go out there.

Obviously, like Wembley is synonymous with tennis, snooker is synonymous with Sheffield.

When I walk through that gate to the court, that's my escape. I block out everything, good and bad.

My dad's method in his madness was to try every sport and then observe what I liked. I played football, tennis, golf, cricket but I loved my snooker.

The great part about tennis is you can't run out the clock.... As long as we were still playing, I had a chance.

The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I'll never be as good as a wall.

Greatest thing in life: Winning a tennis match. Second greatest thing in life: Losing a tennis match

I hope that I have accomplished just one thing: that I have been a credit to tennis and my country.

Borg's won Wimbledon four straight times and out there he has just lost an 18-16 tie breaker. You'd think maybe once he'd let up and say forget it. But oh, no way.

I haven't lost a war. No one got killed. I just lost a tennis match.

For me, losing a tennis match isn't failure, it's research.

My personal style is really comfy: flats, tennis shoes, ponytails, no makeup.

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.

I decided to play tennis not because I wanted to be a professional player, but because my parents wanted me to get involved in something so I wouldnt be running around the streets in Serbia.

I play tennis for a living even though I hate tennis, hate it with a dark and secret passion and always have.

Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it.

I was just another long-haired teenage kid with visions of grandeur, strumming a tennis racket or a broom in front of his bedroom mirror.

I never look back, I look forward.

It's pretty hard being a tennis player and Mother Theresa at the same time and that's just the way it is.

Duffers who consistently shank their balls are urged to buy and study Shanks - No Thanks by R.K. Hoffman, or in extreme cases, M.S. Howard's excellent Tennis for Beginners.

The world's No. 1 tennis player spends 90 percent of his time winning, while the world's No. 1 golfer spends 90 percent of his time losing. Golfers are great losers.

As a tennis player you can win and you can lose, and you have to be ready for both. I practised self-control as a kid. But as you get older they both - winning and losing - get easier.

Every day two million Americans play tennis and one million of them lose.

You can't measure success if you have never failed.

I made it look so easy on court all those years. No one realized how hard I had to work. No one realized how much I had to put into it. They underestimated my intensity.

You'll hear a lot of applause in your life, but none will mean more to you than that applause from your peers. I hope each of you hears that at the end.

Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.

I'm a perfectionist. I'm pretty much insatiable. I feel there's so many things I can improve on.

I never wanted to be the great guy or the colorful guy or the interesting guy. I wanted to be the guy who won titles.

I have no sense of humor about losing

Tennis is a psychological sport, you have to keep a clear head. That is why I stopped playing.

You don't play boxing. You really don't. You play golf, you play tennis, but you don't play boxing.

Everything is possible in this life.

I let my racket do the talking. That's what I am all about, really. I just go out and win tennis matches.

I want my tennis to speak for everything.

You have to find it. No one else can find it for you.

This [defeat] has taught me a lesson, but I'm not sure what it is.

If I'd wanted to be an individual, I'd have taken up tennis.

What rivalry? I win all the matches.

I always listen, I ask children, I even ask adults in tennis, "What are your children playing?" And most of the time it's not tennis. It's pathetic.

I want to play tennis and fornicate.

A great tennis career is something that a 15-year-old normally doesn't have. I hope my example helps other teens believe they can accomplish things they never thought possible.

The choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one's feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent of writing a novel and winning a tennis match simultaneously.

I used to play a lot of racket sports, tennis and squash.

If you're a champion, you have to have it in your heart.

I'm focused on going out every day and doing my best.

I love tennis! I've always felt like this because it is such a classy sport with a great, competitive flair to it.

If I can't serve on grass, I can maybe help cut the grass, paint the lines and serve some strawberries.

When you walk on a court, clear your mind of everything unrelated to the goal of playing the match as well as you can.