Top 100 Play Tennis Quotes
#1. 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.
Oleg Cassini
#2. It's like getting the Williams sisters to play (tennis) against a man, and they're far better athletes than she (Sorenstam) is.
Vijay Singh
#3. I always preferred working with somebody so I could look into their eyeballs and play tennis.
Carol Burnett
#4. 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
#5. If I'm on holiday, I'm active on the beach, I play tennis, I run, I swim a lot. It's just about making the workouts fun, I think, and then it doesn't really feel that bad.
Candice Swanepoel
#6. Playing (Serena) it always felt like playing a steamroller. No subtlety, no finesse, just raw, loud power. To respect this style of play was always a bit tough for me, but of course I had to, because the rules of tennis dont state that having a beautiful game is required to become No. 1.
Martina Hingis
#7. My father actually moved out from Chicago just so he could play tennis 365 days a year, so it was - it was a place we played every day. We played before school. We played after school. We woke up. We played tennis. We brushed our teeth in that order.
Andre Agassi
#8. I play better tennis because the court is there.
Robert Frost
#9. I do play tennis, but I don't really like competition. I'm supposed to be so intense, but I hate competition.
Amy Chua
#10. I chop and change between what is called 'work' and what is called 'recreation.' There are no discontinuities in my day. I only play tennis with people I find interesting.
David Deutsch
#11. 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
#12. So there is not a lot about me that you don't know other than that I play table tennis. I'm great, I'm great at table tennis! You will look at me and go, 'How does that dude know how to play that well?'
Jamie Foxx
#13. I play tennis for a living even though I hate tennis, hate it with a dark and secret passion and always have.
Andre Agassi
#14. I'm more in that Rafa Nadal high-energy high-octane mold out there. I wear that emotion on the court. That's how I play my best tennis. People either like that or not. And I can't change that: that's who I am on a tennis court.
Lleyton Hewitt
#15. Tennis is a young man's game. Until you're 25, you can play singles. From 25 to 35, you should play doubles. I won't tell you exactly how old I am, but when I played, there were 28 men on the court - just on my side of the net.
George Burns
#16. When I'm in L.A., I try to run the canyons or play tennis with friends a few times a week. I've tried working out with a trainer and going to the gym, but I'd just much rather be outside.
Julia Jones
#18. Tennis was always there for me, which was lucky. I would go play baseball, basketball, football, hang with my brother, do whatever, and at the end of the day I'd come back and say, 'Hey, Mom, would you hit 15 minutes worth of balls with me?'
Jimmy Connors
#19. Besides surfing, I play tennis, volleyball, I swim, I run hills, or I do high-intensity, high-interval workouts. I'm up at 5 A.M. every day.
Bethany Hamilton
#20. This is how you play tennis without the net
Sam Harris
#21. I believe the religion of Christ covers the whole man. Why shouldn't a man play baseball or lawn-tennis? ... Don't imagine that you have got to go into a cave to be consecrated, and stay there all your life. Whatever you take up, take it up with all your heart.
Dwight L. Moody
#22. When Sweden's Jan-Ove Waldner travels to China to play table tennis, he is mobbed when he leaves his hotel as if he were a rock star walking around Manhattan or a soccer star walking around Europe.
George Vecsey
#23. Like many men who play tennis, when I hit a ball into the net, I tend to look daggers at my racket, reproaching it for playing so badly when I myself have been trying so hard.
Craig Brown
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. One thing my dad always told me, was he would make sure I always had what he didn't have. He couldn't play basketball because he didn't have tennis shoes - so I had five pairs of tennis shoes.
Robert Griffin III
#27. In polo, you jump on a horse and you play. To play tennis, you have to train every day. It's your legs that do all the work. In polo, it's the horses' legs.
Adolfo Cambiaso
#28. I'm slightly influenced by sport in that I like the idea of trying, like an athlete, to keep absolutely ready. That's an emotional thing, almost. I don't mean physically, although I play tennis. But you try to keep yourself ready.
Colm Toibin
#29. One day my dad would say, 'OK, if you want to play tennis I can help you out.' And that's how it started. And I had a goal. I wanted to beat my mom first. And my parents and my brother. And that was the ultimate goal.
Caroline Wozniacki
#30. Safin, in his way, is very talented. It is a joy to watch them play; it is tennis of a very high quality.
Richard Krajicek
#31. Let no one say that I have said nothing new ... the arrangement of the subject is new. When we play tennis, we both play with the same ball, but one of us places it better.
Blaise Pascal
#32. I started when I was 4, but I didn't play seriously until I was 8.
Kathy Rinaldi
#33. I love to play tennis. I play a lot in the summer. I'm not a big golfer; I need something a bit more intense.
Carl Hagelin
#34. Jimmy Connors plays two tennis matches and winds up with $850,000, and Muhammad Ali fights for one bout and winds up with five million bucks. Me, I play 190 games
if you count exhibitions
and I'm overpaid!
Johnny Bench
#35. There was something so cool about being able to carry this film [Into the Forest] together [with Ellen Page] and to play off of each other. It was like having the most worthy tennis opponent.
Evan Rachel Wood
#36. I don't think I've ever held a racket in my hand ... There's got to be somebody in the US who isn't trying to play tennis and stinking up the court.
Isaac Asimov
#38. I've been athletic since I was a kid. My parents got me playing tennis when I was seven years old and I started to play competitively.
Lisa Rinna
#39. 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
#40. I felt sad because everyday I had to wake up early to practice before going to school. After school I had to go back to tennis again, and then after tennis I had homework. I didn't have time to play.
Li Na
#41. I enjoy tennis, though don't play very often nowadays, and skiing ... oh yes and swimming.
Roger Moore
#42. I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
Robert Frost
#43. When the Williams sisters play tennis, it gets pretty hot. When they start grunting, I'm in.
Robin Williams
#44. My theory is that if you buy an ice-cream cone and make it hit your mouth, you can learn to play tennis. If you stick it on your forehead, your chances aren't as good.
Vic Braden
#45. Boxing's a poor man's sport. We can't afford to play golf or tennis. It is what it is. It's kept so many kids off the street. It kept me off the street.
Sugar Ray Leonard
#46. Women are everywhere. We're letting them play golf and tennis now. It's out of control.
Brian Kilmeade
#47. I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.
Venus Williams
#48. 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.
Jimmy Connors
#49. I do doubles on Monday and Thursday, take Wednesday off or do easy cardio, do doubles on Thursday and Friday, and the weekend I just get outside and get active - jog or bike ride, or play tennis with my mom.
Mikaela Shiffrin
#50. 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
#51. Do I play tennis? Man, I had one of the baddest overhead rights of anyone. Bam!
Don King
#52. My mother wanted very much to play tennis; she wanted, most of all, to be a singer and play the piano.
John C. Hawkes
#54. One day you can be a kid, but another day you have to be like this is your job, you play tennis. You have to work for that.
Martina Hingis
#55. Acting is like a game of tennis. The better your opponent, the better you're going to play.
Shawnee Smith
#56. There's power to: and everyone should have that, but everyone doesn't. Power to play Bach, or tennis, or boccie if you like. And there's power over; and no one should have that, but people do.
Marilyn French
#57. Tennis is a hard sport. There is a lot of competition all year and you play alone.
Rafael Nadal
#58. When I am playing well I think I play such boring tennis.
Virginia Wade
#59. I used to play a lot of tennis and then, next thing you know, same thing with tennis. That banging on the knees, the jarring, twisting motion - I couldn't do it. All of a sudden, every time I played, my knee would swell up.
Caitlyn Jenner
#60. Andrea Jaeger plays tennis like she's double-parked.
Mary Carillo
#62. It means everything, definitely. I mean, it's Wimbledon. Tennis here is tennis history. Centre Court is always great to play on. I really feel like I'm at home. I was really up and down after my title here in 2011, but I still worked hard and believed in myself, and my team believed in me as well.
Petra Kvitova
#63. I can see that the tennis for the fans could be a bit boring, and these days you have these new modern things which you can do, and you have a lot of time, because you just play a match, and practise, and many times in between you can bring many things to the fans.
Tomas Berdych
#64. If I didn't play tennis I probably would have to see a psychiatrist.
Arthur Ashe
#65. 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
#66. I lived in Hollywood long enough to
learn to play tennis and become a star,
but I never felt it was my home.
Paulette Goddard
#67. I make movies the same way other kids play tennis or go to piano lessons. I'm trying to get better at what I want to do, just like other kids are trying to get better at what they want to do.
Elle Fanning
#68. 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
#69. I love being outside and feeling free, so I jog or ride my bike. Some days I play basketball or tennis.
Jennifer Hudson
#70. I decided to play tennis not because I wanted to be a professional player, but because my parents wanted me to get involved in something so I wouldnt be running around the streets in Serbia,
Jelena Jankovic
#71. Serena and I have done some great career planning, and we're playing really at the peak of our tennis right now. I think tennis has been a sport where people play this insane schedule from 14 years old, so of course at 26, it's over. We've really paced ourselves.
Venus Williams
#72. Tennis is at an amazing time when you've got two of the best players ever to play the game. You can argue the two very best playing in the same generation. It's a rivalry I think that we've never seen in our sport.
Andre Agassi
#73. I don't play golf or tennis, I don't ski, I don't snowboard. If you love what you do, you never get enough of it.
Frankie Valli
#74. 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
#75. I asked [my doctors] if I'd be able to play singles tennis and they said I could. That made me very happy since I haven't played in five years.
Walter Cronkite
#76. 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
#77. Each weekend I play at least one and maybe two sets of tennis a day. My doubles team was in the finals recently at my tennis club in Palm Beach and lost a tiebreaker after a three-hour match. I must confess, by the end of the three hours, I was relieved it was over.
Wilbur Ross
#78. When I play, I feel like I'm in a theatre, why should I look ugly then, because I'm a tennis-player?
Anna Kournikova
#79. Teach a child to play solitaire, and she'll be able to entertain herself when there's no one around. Teach her tennis, and she'll know what to do when she's on a court. But raise her to feel comfortable in nature, and the whole planet is her home.
Joyce Maynard
#80. Summer I was 13, my grandfather and my father taught me how to play golf. I took lessons that summer, and I played every day that summer. I probably would've kept playing, except I realized that girls don't watch golf; they watch tennis. So I let my golf game go dormant and started playing tennis.
Thomas Gibson
#81. Before, I would play a little hoops, a little tennis. Now it's more yoga, Pilates, stretching, some light weight work, push-ups, sit-ups, resistance things. When I used to live on the eleventh floor, I would take the steps. I don't do that so much now. I'm taking the elevator a bit more these days.
Robin Roberts
#82. My parents did everything possible. My dad has worked from eight in the morning until nine in the evening to make it possible so I can play tennis. We had to cancel tournaments because we couldn't afford to go there.
Sabine Lisicki
#83. I'm the girl who's like, 'Why wear heels when I can wear tennis shoes and be comfortable?' I've always been the girl who's like, 'Let's go play basketball.'
Kyla Pratt
#84. The thing is, it's not good anyway for eight-year-olds to be out there playing tennis tournaments so soon in their lives. But when I did get to play in a tournament, when I was nine, I was overjoyed.
Venus Williams
#85. It was very unusual for a boy to play tennis in my country.
Novak Djokovic
#86. We look for opportunities to play together including basketball, tennis, swimming, riding bikes and touch football. I try to provide a loving environment where we can play. I think that's good on so many levels - emotionally, for family interactions and, of course, physically.
Alan Thicke
#87. Of course it isn't. It's just an arbitrary set of rules like chess or tennis or - what's that strange thing you British play?" "Er, cricket? Self-loathing?" "Parliamentary democracy.
Douglas Adams
#88. 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
#89. The skill of making, and maintaining Common-wealths, consisteth in certain Rules, as doth Arithmetique and Geometry; not (as Tennis-play) on Practise onely: which Rules, neither poor men have the leisure, nor men that have had the leisure, have hitherto had the curiosity, or the method to find out.
Thomas Hobbes
#90. 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
#91. A smart girl is one who knows how to play tennis, golf, piano
and dumb.
Marilyn Monroe
#92. The serve is the only thing you know about yourself when you play tennis. If you make it right, you make it right. Nobody can touch you when you serve. Nobody can disturb you. You have the ball in the hand.
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
#93. If I'm in Maui, I play soccer and tennis and go kite-surfing. I prefer doing a sport as opposed to going to a gym. I'm not big on gyms. When I did 'Rampart,' I lost 30 pounds because I felt it was better for the character. I worked out constantly, maybe twice a day, and minimized caloric intake.
Woody Harrelson
#94. But I still have to practice hard if I'm going to play my best tennis.
Anastasia Myskina
#95. 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.
Sanford I. Weill
#96. Every day two million Americans play tennis and one million of them lose.
Vic Braden
#97. I cycle, I take an hour's strenuous walk in the evening, I play tennis twice a week with a trainer, and I sail. I used to ride horses professionally - I'd ride seven or eight horses a day, so I had to be fit for that.
Jonathan Dimbleby
#98. I think that tennis has been in a place for many years without any change. Davis Cup and Fed Cup has always been a very exciting platform for players because it is such an individual sport, and we get to play a team competition. We love being part of a team.
Mahesh Bhupathi
#99. When you play competitive tennis you are competing against someone else and you have to win. Playing music I didn't have to win I had to become better within myself.
Aaron Zigman
#100. I'm very proud to be a professional tennis player. I'm really happy to be doing something that I love. With this comes responsibility, and I am honored when I am told that I have inspired someone to play tennis.
Ana Ivanovic
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