Tennis Quotes
Collection of top 100 famous quotes about Tennis
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
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
Chris Lloyd came out of the dressing room like a pistol.
— Virginia Wade
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
Wouldn't tennis be way more interesting with explosive balls?
— Brandon Sanderson
I love seeing tennis up close.
— Jim Parsons
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
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 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
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
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
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
- 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
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
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
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
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