Tennis Quotes

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

Never give up. Take what life throws at you and throw it right back. If life keeps throwing then you have a tennis match going. Learn to like tennis.

That's when you've got to grit your teeth and hang in there and try and find a way to win when you're not playing your best tennis - that's what I can be proud of

Tennis was always sort of a - a learning. It was a vehicle for me to discover a lot about myself.

When I'm down or maybe when it's close in the match, I feel like I'm still in it. I don't feel like I'm letting down. Mentally, I'm still really, really tough.

I've been asked a lot lately if tennis is clean or not. I don't know any more how you judge whether a sport is clean. If one in 100 players is doping, in my eyes that isn't a clean sport.

I have always considered tennis as a combat in an arena between two gladiators who have their racquets and their courage as their weapons.

I don't care now if I ever win a match in my life again. Whatever I do in my life, wherever I go, I'm going to be always Wimbledon champion.

Tennis is an addiction that once it has truly hooked a man will not let him go.

The crowds are very important for tennis. It makes you play better, but it can also make you nervous and that's the beauty of it.

I used to pretend that I was Tom attacking Jerry, who was drawn on the ball

Once in a while I'll get moved to do some exercise. It's something I long for but the biggest problem is bending down and putting my tennis shoes on. Once I go out I'm OK.

Every time I hit the ball on the wall I uses to pretend I was there (Wimbledon). When I went to sleep I used to pretend I was there.

Id like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.

I think I've already got the main thing I've always wanted, which is to be somebody, to have an identify. I'm Althea Gibson, the tennis champion. I hope it makes me happy.

Politicians who wear little tennis socks with the balls at the back should not be taken seriously.

But it is impossible to enjoy a tennis game, a book, or a conversation unless attention is fully concentrated on the activity.

For me the most important thing has always been tennis, and that's what I want to get across the image I want to portray is a hard-working tennis player.

It's a pity that the tennis is really going down the drain. Every year it's getting worse and worse and worse. There has to be a radical change, and I hope it will be really soon.

The more matches I play, the more confident I get.

I'd love to open a tennis school for children in my hometown of Sochi.

My serve has killed a small dog ... I'm joking, I'm joking! The dog was huge!

Working with Brando was fun. It was like a tennis match. We played unbelievably well together.

If you want to be a tennis player, then mould yourself on Roger Federer. I won three Wimbledon titles and I wish I could play like him.

I love various sports, including basketball, tennis and billiards.

Now I do bowling, golf, and tennis. I want to be a good bowler.

What distinguishes tennis is respect for one's opponent, one's conduct on the court.

I asked [my doctors] if I'd be able to play singles tennis and they said I could. That made me very happy since I haven't played in five years.

It is very important not to think about losing.

He's a haircut and a forehand.

Once you reach a good level in tennis it fills you with a lot of motivation. I hope I can do it for a long time.

Equipment's the biggest change. And the guys have been getting bigger, stronger, more athletic - so the game has become more of a track meet instead of a tennis match, in a sense.

It's not really a shorter skirt, I just have longer legs

With everything else that would swirl around me when I got involved in it, tennis was my main concern.

Good shot, bad luck and hell are the five basic words to be used in a game of tennis, though these, of course, can be slightly amplified.

I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.

In tennis you move a lot. Golf you dont. In tennis, you can have a bad half-hour, but you cant in golf. You can lose the first set in tennis and still win.

Family's first, and that's what matters most. We realize that our love goes deeper than the tennis game.

Tennis is beautiful when you can see tactics, when players don't just react but are able to act and think.

I will do everything in my power to make sure people are aware that our team is out there fighting the good fight for the tennis fans of the United States.

The ball is round, the game is long.

I have always been guided by striving to show the best that I could. That is what kept me going in tennis and it is the same now.

The dumber you are on court, the better you're going to play.

Boxing, mixed martial arts and tennis are the hardest sports to train for.

I only ever run when there's some point to it - say, if it's in a game of tennis.

There is no relief at it being over. There is the joy of winning it.

Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.

The roughest thing I ever said to an umpire was, 'Are you sure?'

With all the injury problems we have in men's tennis at the moment, I'm happy to still be standing.

If I have a daughter and she plays tennis, and I have a son who plays tennis, I wouldn't say that my son deserves more money because he's a man. I would say they deserve the same amount of money.