Tennis Quotes

I have a strong tennis arm.

I chose to stay with tennis and they didn't understand that at the school.

I had a great tennis career. I have no regrets. But to find peace with yourself, and to finally be with your family - I'm probably the happiest guy in the world.

My workout was playing other sports and I always played tennis, football, basketball, threw a baseball - I was always doing something to keep me active. That's how I kept my body going.

My parents paid me small amounts for cleaning my room or cleaning the dishes and stuff, but I never really had a real job before I started on my professional tennis career.

I was always rather nasty. I was willing to be friends with the Devil, just to cross the bridge.

I didn't aspire to be a good sport; "champion" was good enough for me.

I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.

He slips . . . but manages to regroup himself.

The minute you think you know everything about tennis is the minute your game starts going down the tubes.

Everyone thinks my name is Jerry Laitis and they call me Mr Laitis. What can you do when you have a name that sounds like a disease?

Tennis is a fine balance between determination and tiredness.

Technically he is perfect and he plays so naturally, almost without effort. It's like when Roger Federer plays tennis, he barely sweats.

If you give me a short shot I will attack you. I'm not a baseliner who rallies. I try to get the point over with.

Polo is like tennis - you literally have to live it.

Always staying focused is something that's been very tough for me. I'm still working on it.

It's a lot of bling to play with. You got to have the bling.

Control the things you can control .

Because I was a tennis player, Billie Jean King was a hero of mine.

When the Williams sisters play tennis, it gets pretty hot. When they start grunting, I'm in.

Throughout my career, my mind rarely wandered, and I was never sidetracked by distractions, no matter what I was going through off the court.

The tennis world is constantly changing. What's true today may be wrong tomorrow. If you don't make progress, others will and you will be overtaken.

I did realize more than ever, after the stabbing, that tennis is a business - a tough business.

You can't be considered a great player unless you win Wimbledon. That's the way it is.

Tennis has given me soul.

I'm not saying I'm something special. I might play a little better tennis than other people, but it is because I was given the chance, and not many people are.

Tennis: the most perfect combination of athleticism, artistry, power, style, and wit. A beautiful game, but one so remorselessly travestied by the passage of time.

When you start from nothing, when you come from nothing, it makes you hungry. I am proud of where I came from and I know what I want. I want to win.

If I was the type of person who had tennis, tennis, tennis all the time and I went to bed and ended up dreaming about tennis, I would go nuts.

There are people who love you and people who hate you, but for me, more so, people only think they know me by how I act or perform on a tennis court.

Your game is only as good as your second serve

This tennis world, this tennis community, is very much a bubble, and it's very easy to get lost in here. You know, there is a real world out there still.

I don't go out there to love my enemy. I go out there to squash him.

Fishing tournaments seem a little like playing tennis with living balls.

Too many people asking too many questions in tennis. Golf is better.

while it's true in tennis, love is zero. but zero is also where everything starts. nothing would ever be born if we didn't depart from there. nothing would be ever achieved.

The Human Species could have been great but instead we became satisfied with lights on our tennis shoes.

I rarely wear tennis shoes. I'm 5' 8', I hate being short.

I played all kinds of sports when I was young: tennis, handball, basketball, some soccer. I focused on basketball when I was 16 or 17 and then came to the U.S. when I was 20.

Tennis is like a wonderful, longstanding relationship with a husband. Golf is a tempestuous, lousy lover; it's totally unpredicatable, a constant surprise.

If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment.

Power thrills, consistency kills.

There's a lot of ingredients go into being a good tennis player.

Tennis has had a very positive impact on my life.

I don't need to come back to Wimbledon every year because I can't live without it. I'd be totally cool without tennis.

My fines? I pay more fines than some guys' career prize money on the tour.

Tennis was never work for me, tennis was fun. And the tougher the battle and the longer the match, the more fun I had.

My role is to think about tennis and to help Serena Williams be the best she can be and do what she wants to achieve.

I don't think the tennis tour is the place to have friends

Tennis is so competitive. I guess that's the way it has to be.