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My mom, she's from Ireland, coached tennis in Nigeria when she was a missionary and turned me on to it when I was young.
— Donal Logue
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 always listen, I ask children, I even ask adults in tennis, "What are your children playing?" And most of the time it's not tennis. It's pathetic.
— Billie Jean King
They call him the Streak, he likes to turn the other cheek. He's always making the news, wearing just his tennis shoes.
— Ray Stevens
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
Out. He watched her when they were at Kate's tennis
— Barbara Delinsky
Family's first, and that's what matters most. We realize that our love goes deeper than the tennis game.
— Serena Williams
There's too much money and too many nice guys around.
— John McEnroe
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
Tennis is my job, but it's not my life.
— Serena Williams
Acting is like a sporting match; a tennis game, but no one should win or lose. The game's the thing!
— Jon Polito
I am here to play women's tennis. I'm a lady. Predominantly, most of the time I always like to play ladies.
— Serena Williams
As far as U.S. tennis, we need new stars coming up in the pipeline, but I don't know if we have it.
— Billie Jean King
In tennis it's easy to get greedy - and one Grand Slam doesn't feel enough any more.
— Samantha Stosur
It's pretty hard being a tennis player and Mother Theresa at the same time and that's just the way it is.
— Maria Sharapova
The crowds are very important for tennis. It makes you play better, but it can also make you nervous and that's the beauty of it.
— Roger Federer
You don't need to know who's playing on the White House tennis court to be a good president.
— James Baker
We've been training and playing full-time since we were 18 and 19. So after tennis, we'll be excited to see what it's like to have more free time.
— Venus Williams
It's like playing tennis, you play a different rally with different people. Every actor is different and the chemistry between actors is different.
— Tom Hiddleston
Whatever I do, I love to win. I don't care if it's tennis or ping pong, I'll kill myself to win it.
— Andy Pettitte
When I'm sitting at home in the off season and I don't have anything to do, I watch tennis on my computer. It's kind of boring. It's something to do.
— Sloane Stephens
It's like love. When you look too hard, you don't find it. When you let it happen naturally, it comes.
— Marat Safin
A win's a win, unless it is not a win, and then it's not a win.
— Venus Williams
I'm not the best player in the history of tennis. I think I'm amongst the best. That's true. That's enough for me.
— Rafael Nadal
He's up there. But (Marat) Safin, on his game, is as hard to beat.
— Lleyton Hewitt
Love is nothing in tennis. But in life, it's everything.
— Jeanette Murray
Where is women's sports prominently displayed with the men? Tennis is the only thing I can think of.
— Ronda Rousey
Sex doesn't interfere with your tennis; it's staying out all night trying to find it that affects your tennis.
— Andre Agassi
What a polite game tennis is. The chief word in it seems to be "sorry" and admiration of each other's play crosses the net as frequently as the ball.
— James M. Barrie
One may do many things in a long life. I also played a great deal of tennis and brought up three children. There's time for all sorts of adventures.
— Audrey Niffenegger
There's no doubt there are issues with clay. Our issues have issues that are issues right now. That's not a secret.
— Andy Roddick
Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
— Venus Williams
It's silly to say it about a tennis player, but I'm an unbelievable hero in Germany. And Germany needs heroes more than any place.
— Boris Becker
It's that I have a good personality and am a good tennis player.
— Anna Kournikova
You're the only one in control over your golf ball. It's not like tennis: you're hitting a shot and somebody's hitting it back at you.
— Lee Westwood
The pace of this match is really accelerating, by which I mean it's getting faster all the time.
— David Coleman
I'm super, super casual. I like boxer shorts or jeans or tank tops, tennis shoes and flip flops. That's about it for me.
— Shannon Elizabeth
Andrea Jaeger plays tennis like she's double-parked.
— Mary Carillo
Women are everywhere. We're letting them play golf and tennis now. It's out of control.
— Brian Kilmeade
You can't be considered a great player unless you win Wimbledon. That's the way it is.
— Mats Wilander
I'm not the savior of men's tennis in America. I'm just a kid trying to win a few matches.
— Andy Roddick
The fifth set is not about tennis, it's about nerves.
— Boris Becker
He's a haircut and a forehand.
— Ivan Lendl
I'm just glad Open tennis is here. It's great for the game. That's more important.
— Pancho Gonzales
There's no home team in tennis, no built-in fan base, so the players have to step up and do their fair share.
— Andy Roddick
Sometimes you're looking to play perfect tennis but it's not going to happen all the time and you have to accept it.
— Andy Murray
Wimbledon is getting a bit too like Royal Ascot. It's not what happens or who wins so much, as what clothes do I have on.
— David Lloyd
Technically he is perfect and he plays so naturally, almost without effort. It's like when Roger Federer plays tennis, he barely sweats.
— Vicente Del Bosque
I love tennis more than designing because it's actually easier and I don't get nearly as nervous.
— Serena Williams
In this job it's like beasts of prey in a cage
— Marcelo Rios
Tennis is my life, obviously; I need to focus, I need to win. But it's not the only thing. I'm not going to play forever.
— Novak Djokovic
That's one of the best sets I've seen him play, although I should preface that by saying I haven't seen him play before.
— John McEnroe
There's a lot of things I want to do. I want to learn Italian. I want to learn to play tennis better. I want to motivate the world, basically.
— Magnus Scheving
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He [Roger Federer] is the greatest natural talent in tennis I've ever seen. I love to watch the guy play, he's an awesome talent
— John McEnroe
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.
— Goran Ivanisevic
Everything's a real passion to me - my children, my family, my work, travel. I don't play tennis, I don't play music, but I have a great time.
— Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
It's true I always try to be as seductive as possible but I wouldn't be here if I couldn't play tennis.
— Anna Kournikova
I hope I was a good example of women's tennis.
— Victoria Azarenka
Let's hope his nerves will run through his veins.
— John McEnroe
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— A.J. Carella
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
Near Shepherd's Bush two thousand Beta-Minus mixed doubles were playing Riemann-surface tennis.
— Aldous Huxley
It's not really a shorter skirt, I just have longer legs
— Anna Kournikova
An idle person is the devil's tennis ball, which he bandies up and down with temptation until at last the ball goes out of play.
— Thomas Watson
With all the injury problems we have in men's tennis at the moment, I'm happy to still be standing.
— Roger Federer
It's quite clear that Virginia Wade is thriving on the pressure now that the pressure on her to do well is off .
— Harry Carpenter
Nothing is etched in stone in tennis until the final point has been played. That's why we watch.
— Dave McPherson
For me, losing a tennis match isn't failure, it's research.
— Billie Jean King
From the outside, Rick Rubin's house above Zuma Beach is a generic millionaire beach home. There's a rarely used tennis court and a circular drive.
— Stephen Rodrick
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— Karin Slaughter
If you screw things up in tennis, it's 15-love. If you screw up in boxing, it's your ass.
— Randall "Tex" Cobb
'Oh and Oh' is a tennis term ... It's a nice way of saying you took your opponent to pieces.
— Venus Williams
If you can keep playing tennis when somebody is shooting a gun down the street, that's concentration.
— Serena Williams
That's what you do all the hard work for, to play in situations that put your body through gruelling times. If you're not up to it, pull out.
— Lleyton Hewitt
This is a dream from when I was kid. I'm playing tennis almost 18 years, and of course everybody's dream is to play the final of a Grand Slam.
— Agnieszka Radwanska
Ann's got to take her nerve by the horns.
— Virginia Wade