Tennis Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about Tennis

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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

In Argentina at various tournaments, it's great. Every day it's full, everybody's crazy about tennis, everybody wants to play tennis. — Gabriela Sabatini

In tennis, you strike a ball just after the rebound for the fastest return. It's the same with investment. — Masayoshi Son

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

It was very unusual for a boy to play tennis in my country. — Novak Djokovic

Tennis obviously isn't as popular as baseball in the States. — Pete Sampras

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. — Patrick Mouratoglou

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

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

I want to play tennis and fornicate. — Robert Plant

In the back of my mind's eye, everything had a fuzzy green haze on it, like a brand-new tennis ball. The world was getting its Shine on. — Nalo Hopkinson

There is no way around the hard work. Embrace it. — Roger Federer

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

Ask any comedian, tennis player, chef. Timing is everything. — Meg Rosoff

Chris Lloyd came out of the dressing room like a pistol. — Virginia Wade

Billie and I did wonders for women's tennis. They owe me a piece of their checks. — Bobby Riggs

I'm only superstitious on the tennis court. — Rafael Nadal

I know my serve stinks, but I was a pretty good tennis player. — George H. W. Bush

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

This was a special week and a special victory for me. I played some great tennis. — Marin Cilic

Wouldn't tennis be way more interesting with explosive balls? — Brandon Sanderson

I love seeing tennis up close. — Jim Parsons

There is Peter Graf, Steffi's father, with his head on his chin. — Dan Maskell

The trouble is you can't play many matches when you lose them. — Jelena Dokic

I was glad to watch the soccer because it helps my tennis game, realize maybe they're just rooting for the underdog. — Serena Williams

Anything over-handed, I do left-handed. Like throwing a ball or serving in tennis. Otherwise, right-handed, like writing and shaving. — Mike Weir

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

I walk my dogs. I garden a little. I play a bit of tennis. Basically when I have spare time I'm making music. — Bill Mumy

When you throw a tennis ball in the air, you can count on it coming down. — Gary Zukav

When I am playing well I think I play such boring tennis. — Virginia Wade

I have no sense of humor about losing — Rafael Nadal

I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis. — Venus Williams

There were many occasions in my career where I could have given up, where I asked myself whether I would ever make it. — Amelie Mauresmo

tonight's festivities, they'd taken over Faraday's Tennis Club, a place where you didn't usually get — A.J. Carella

I used to be told if I talked about my sexuality in any way that we wouldn't have a tennis tour. — Billie Jean King

Revenge is a dish best served by a tennis racket — Josh Stern

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

I'm not afraid of anyone, but sometimes I'm afraid of myself. The mental part is very important. — Justine Henin

You don't go home and talk about the great tennis courts that you played, but you do talk about the golf courses you played. — Hank Ketcham

I guess the attention paid to appearance is something that belongs to tennis too. — Daniela Hantuchova

To me, anyone with an Australian accent wielding a tennis racket is cool. — Adrian Smith

I loved to play, I was competitive, I wanted to win, that was all I knew. In the first few years tennis is a game. Later, it becomes a job, — Gabriela Sabatini

I've got more out of tennis than I could ever give back. — Andy Roddick

You can equate acting to a tennis game: When you're playing one of the best, you get better. — Albert Brooks

Tennis would be much more exciting if they had pitching machines firing Tennis was given to me to keep me off the street corners of east St. Louis. — Jimmy Connors

In this job it's like beasts of prey in a cage — Marcelo Rios

table tennis in the afternoon... — Phillip Lundberg

It's nice to have other hobbies, other than golf. I've played football, I play tennis. I enjoy doing things other than golf, and poker is one of them. — Sergio Garcia

A registered trademark of a British company that makes equipment for playing table tennis, the real name of — Joey Green

I hope I was a good example of women's tennis. — Victoria Azarenka

Training the body to obey the mind as I have done differs from the more conventional method of getting the mind to obey the body. — Chris Evert

There is so many things to do in life rather than playing tennis, so I'm sure I will find something. I just need a bit of time to kind of settle down. — Marion Bartoli

I'm a decent tennis player. Good backhand. — Idina Menzel

Let's hope his nerves will run through his veins. — John McEnroe

As a kid, I wanted to be a pro tennis player. I was pretty good; at the tennis academies I attended, I always 'played up' against older age groups. — Matt Kuchar

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

John McEnroe's so good. Against him, all you can do is shake hands and take a shower. — Tomas Smid

I think I'll play two years more, if my own body lets me do that ... I still think my best tennis is still to come. — Justine Henin

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tennis and golf are best played, not watched. — Roger Kahn

Girls had never been important. I'd had a girlfriend or two and had liked them a lot but it wasn't love, because my first love was tennis. — Boris Becker

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

It is just a crazy life as a sportsman. My daughter, Sam, wants to go into tennis, and I tell her, 'No, you don't want to go into professional sport.' — Ernie Els

In tennis the addict moves about a hard rectangle and seeks to ambush a fuzzy ball with a modified snow-shoe. — Elliott Chaze

She [Monica Seles] has so much control of the racket with those double-handed wrists. — Virginia Wade

Golfers are forever working on mechanics. My tennis swing hasn't changed in 10 years. — Pete Sampras

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

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

I think in the lifetime of a tennis player there are many times where you feel that tremendous confidence. — Gabriela Sabatini

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. — Glenn Ford

Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition and tennis is going to be something I'm probably not very good at. — Maggie Grace

I play a lot of sports. I played football for 12 years, I like tennis, I surf, I snowboard, and I ski. I always like to do an activity. — Caroline Winberg

It was so inspiring for me to watch tennis growing up. I thought I was really good playing, until my brother told me I wasn't! — Christine Taylor

These girls play tennis first and foremost, the fact that many of them are very glamorous is a major bonus for any promoter. — John Lindsay

There is a fear of emotion in tennis. — Andy Murray

I don't do a huge amount of physical activity. I play tennis, I work out sporadically, and I eat well and take care of myself. — Harrison Ford

This is how you play tennis without the net — Sam Harris

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

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

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