Tennis Quotes

I have this terrible dark side to my personality, which playing tennis keeps at bay

Black people playing tennis, next white people will be tap dancing!

The serve was invented so that the net could play.

Since I was a kid, I've wanted to do sports for a living. In the beginning, I played a lot of soccer, but in the end I chose tennis. I love sports in general ... But tennis is my passion.

I'm not involved in tennis but committed.

We haven't had any more rain since it stopped raining.

I'm a very creative person in general. I like to create stuff in my downtime off the court. If I were to tell you everything I do, you would be like, "Do you really play tennis?"

I take pleasure in tennis and the hope that it requires.

Martina, she's got several layers of steel out there like a cat with nine lives.

I didn't play my best but I won. He was a lucky loser but I think he went out of luck today.

I used to cut guitars out of a piece of cardboard to copy the Strat look. I used a backwards tennis racket for a while and graduated to the cardboard cutout.

I love tennis with a passion. I challenged Boris Becker to a match once and he said he was up for it but he never called back. I bet I could make him run around.

It's true I always try to be as seductive as possible but I wouldn't be here if I couldn't play tennis.

When I am playing well I think I play such boring tennis.

Winners aren't popular, losers often are.

I think that tennis is a lady's sport, so we should look out there like ladies.

I haven't been in tennis for that long, but what I can say is that we have a lot of young guys at the top who are willing to do a lot of good things for tennis in general.

Usually, I wear tennis shoes because my feet are flat, and it hurts to wear anything other than shoes that are cushiony.

As you know, I was one of the original grunters. But Jimmy Connors used to grunt way before I was born. I never knew I was grunting, it was just part of my strokes.

I don't think tennis is a glamour game, not at all.

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

In Hollywood people lie to each other and cheat each other and then go and play tennis. But I don't want to be a tennis player.

I lived in Hollywood long enough to learn to play tennis and become a star, but I never felt it was my home. I was never looking for a home, as a matter of fact.

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

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.

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

Ivan Lendl's never going to be a great player on grass. The only time he comes to the net is to shake your hand.

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

Tennis is best of three sets, so even if I lose the first set, I still have a chance.

If you can't take a punch, you should play table tennis.

There was never anything I wanted to do more than play tennis. Never once walked out there and thought, 'I wish I was doing something else.' Not once.

Tennis is not like other sports where the coach is hired by an independent entity, and that makes a huge difference in the dynamic.

And it was where I learned how to play tennis and eventually became captain of the tennis team at the school and was on the Junior Davis Cup in New York City.

Business is like tennis. Those who serve well win.

I never knew I was grunting, it was just part of my strokes.

Swinging at daisies is like playing electric guitar with a tennis racket: if it were that easy, we could all be Jerry Garcia. The ball changes everything.

For me, tennis is a sport. It's not a job, it's a sport.

People often put me in a V-neck tennis club sweater, driving a Bentley, but my life wasn't like that.

I can't become satisfied, because if I get satisfied, I'll be like, "Oh, I've won Wimbledon, I've won the U.S. Open. Now can I relax." But now people are really going to be fighting to beat me.

I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.

Tennis just a game, family is forever.

I guess my goal is to design my own walker. The walkers with the big tennis balls, no one wants to use those. I would rather crawl down the street in New York City than use those.

Tim Henman has the all-time Betty Crocker draw. We're talking Easy Bake Oven.

I would be really excellent in a horror film because I have a great scream. I'd be really good in a comedy too. I'm top, top, top quality.

I love to promote our sport. I love grass-roots tennis. I love coaching. I love all parts of the sport. I love the business side.

I've been around tennis, and I have a feeling for the sport. I still play tennis, and I can still do a lot of harm to a lot of people.

Tennis is more than just shots. It's about being clutch and beating the people on the other side of the net.

It's so difficult to find time besides the tennis.

Few would deny that blacks have become very dominant in athletics: football, basketball, track, now dominant in tennis and dominant in golf.

The tennis wasn't really very much on my mind, so it wasn't like I was thinking about it all the time.