Mr Tennis Quotes: top 34 famous quotes about Mr Tennis

Mr Tennis Quotes & Sayings

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If Davis Cup was a little bit less or once every two years, I would be more inclined to play. But the way it is now, it is too much tennis for me. — Pete Sampras

I've been kicked in the teeth more times in tennis than the law ought to allow. — Jimmy Connors

I really stay busy [in retirement]. I often have to cancel my golf games on the weekends to go play in tennis tournaments. — Richard Davies

I grew up surrounded by tennis, so I was obviously more interested in it than football - particularly as it's the most popular sport. — Stanislas Wawrinka

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

I want to play tennis and fornicate. — Robert Plant

I'm not Mr. Nice Guy, I'm a tough cookie — Thomas Muster

Yes, and though watching tennis isn't a cure for feeling, it is a clean displacement of effort, will, and disappointment. — Claudia Rankine

As soon as I step on the court I just try to play tennis and don't find excuses. You know, I just lost because I lost, not because my arm was sore. — Goran Ivanisevic

The key to the match might have been his serving. Maybe I should have concentrated harder on watching them go by me, I don't know. — Andy Roddick

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

What matters isn't how well you play when you're playing well. What mattersis how well you play when you're playing badly.'
- Martina Navratilova — Harsha Bhogle

Bill Tilden was the greatest - and most improbably great - tennis player of the age. — Bill Bryson

I don't make friends with the girls I'm playing against. It would be too painful to beat them. — Virginia Wade

I always preferred working with somebody so I could look into their eyeballs and play tennis. — Carol Burnett

Once you succeed in tennis, financially you become quite well off. — Stefan Edberg

Tennis is for me joy, nothing less than that. — Sabine Lisicki

You are always talking about yourself and tennis and how you are feeling. I try to avoid it when I don't have to. — Andy Murray

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? — Vitas Gerulaitis

Discussing cultural relativism with cultural relativists is like playing tennis with some guy who says, Your ace is just a social construct. — Mark Steyn

Like a Volvo, Bjorn Borg is rugged, has good after-sales service, and is very dull. — Clive James

The thing I learned from playing tennis is that I know what competition is. I can handle rejection. — Aaron Zigman

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. — John McEnroe

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

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

We're following the evolution of tennis. On the women's side, there has been a very positive change, with the arrival of many new stars. — Stephane Simian

Forget about tennis, I was scared to open my mouth. I didnt even feel worthy of saying something and not sounding stupid. — Jennifer Capriati

I have a passion for playing tennis and enjoy the workload and struggles of performing in this amazing global sport. — Sania Mirza

In the tennis world, there weren't a whole lot of Asians playing. You see it a little bit more now. The same can really be said for basketball. — Michael Chang

I'd also made the first tennis team. I was number two player in the school at 11 years of age and that didn't sit very well with people. — John Newcombe

Back in East St. Louis, tennis wasn't the real thing. If you weren't playing baseball, basketball, football, you were kind of on the outside. — Jimmy Connors

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

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

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