Playing Tennis Quotes

#1. [ ... ]but instead of apologizing, I said, 'It's your own fault for playing tennis.

Karin Slaughter

#2. I love yoga. I can practice it wherever I am, at home, in my hotel room ... I like playing tennis, too, but that's more of a hobby because I'm not very good!

Sigrid Agren

#3. I was passionate about soccer. I still am. Odd, though - playing soccer always made me much more anxious than playing tennis. On soccer days, I'd be out of bed by 6 in the morning, all nervous. But I was always calm when it was time for a tennis match. I still don't know why.

Rafael Nadal

#4. That's what I would like to do until the end of time, to go on scribbling my articles on the third floor of the Sloan Building, in between playing tennis and drinking coffee at my other study in the Concord Avenue branch of Burger King.

Paul Samuelson

#5. Challenging the truth is like playing tennis against the wall! The defeat is inevitable!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#6. I get my drive and determination from just winning and playing tennis. I know if I don't work, I won't get rewarded. It was a life long dream to win a Grand Slam so when I was able to do that it felt so good and I wanted to do it again. It's not that hard to stay motivated.

Samantha Stosur

#7. I'm ambidextrous when I eat. But playing tennis right-handed - I can't do it. I'm clueless.

Rafael Nadal

#8. There are not many Irish people playing tennis!

Goran Ivanisevic

#9. 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

#10. A good thing is I've been playing tennis I think every day for the last two months. I really haven't had a day off. I've been doing things that I did used to do.

Stefan Edberg

#11. It's your turn to talk," Tod said when several seconds had elapsed in pensive, angry silence from the hellion. "Negotiation is like playing tennis with words instead of balls. I thought you'd be better at this, considering your apparent lack of balls.

Rachel Vincent

#12. I really hope that I can be helpful in that journey because I do believe that women deserve the same pay. We work just as hard as men do. I've been working, playing tennis, since I was three years old. And to be paid less just because of my sex - it doesn't seem fair.

Serena Williams

#13. I never expected i, in the first place, when I started playing tennis, that I would ever carry the flag into the Olympic Stadium for an Olympic Games ... So for me that was a surprise and a huge honor in my life to be able to represent Switzerland.

Roger Federer

#14. I've got my advanced scuba diving license. I'm playing tennis and exercising. I ride my bike everywhere. I've been finding new things. I've been more creative in music and doing different videos. And just meeting different people and being around and present. I'm wonderful when I'm just on nothing.

Albert Hammond Jr.

#15. I don't always choose to stay fit by playing tennis, because that comes with its own wear-and-tear.

Andre Agassi

#16. Before I got addicted to comedy, I was seriously thinking about playing tennis full time. I joined the tennis team and played with a lot of professionals.

Carrot Top

#17. Black people playing tennis, next white people will be tap dancing!

Will Smith

#18. In terms of my free time, I really don't have much. The time I do have, I enjoy being domestic and spending time with my girlfriend, hiking and playing tennis.

Corey Stoll

#19. When I discovered European filmmakers, it affected me so deeply. It redefined what cinema could be. I mean, 'Blow-Up' ends with a dead body and mimes playing tennis. What?

Paul Haggis

#20. Fishing tournaments seem a little like playing tennis with living balls ...

Jim Harrison

#21. 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

#22. 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

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

Sania Mirza

#24. I love playing tennis. To me this is not a workout, but a fun extracurricular activity I do with friends so it doesn't feel like I'm working out.

Ana De La Reguera

#25. Most expert, skilled behavior works this way, whether it is playing tennis or a musical instrument, or doing mathematics and science. Experts minimize the need for conscious reasoning. Philosopher

Donald A. Norman

#26. 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

#27. I have this terrible dark side to my personality, which playing tennis keeps at bay.

Monica Seles

#28. I enjoy hanging out with friends, going on hikes and playing tennis. I also enjoy Bible study and making dinners. I have a pretty mellow life away from the water.

Bethany Hamilton

#29. Sports have always been a really important part of how I energize myself, as well as how I relax. I spend a lot of my spare time with my family playing tennis, biking and rollerblading.

Irene Rosenfeld

#30. When you become a top player, you think that nothing else and nobody else matters. You can tell everybody on earth, 'Listen, I'm playing tennis, I don't have time for you. I'm in the semifinals of the U.S. Open, screw everybody and everything else.'

Mats Wilander

#31. The sun was hot and bright. A day for fishing, for swimming, for playing tennis and having fun, and they put my Christopher in the ground.

V.C. Andrews

#32. To meet my goals, I couldn't let up when I was playing tennis.

Tracy Austin

#33. Acting with Denzel is like playing tennis with someone that's better than you. You either play better tennis or get blown off the court.

Dean Cain

#34. Maybe I was accepted to Harvard only because of my tennis skills, since I definitively had no great academic achievements. I was 17 and only thought about surfing and playing tennis. I had almost never left Rio de Janeiro and had never been to the United States.

Jorge Paulo Lemann

#35. If you can keep playing tennis when somebody is shooting a gun down the street, that's concentration.

Serena Williams

#36. I'm Shahar Peer. I came here to play tennis. I know I'm from Israel and I'm proud of my country and that playing tennis is what I'm going to do tomorrow.

Shahar Pe'er

#37. Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

Robert Frost

#38. The thing I learned from playing tennis is that I know what competition is. I can handle rejection.

Aaron Zigman

#39. I like playing tennis. I've always enjoyed the process of being a tennis player; I'm just not sure that I enjoyed the travel at the end, and my body didn't recover from the day-to-day grind.

Andy Roddick

#40. It was another sunny day, good for skin cancer and playing tennis.

Jonathan Ames

#41. Love is an anchor -- it stops you from drifting away. Love is sticking up for your friends and family, or even your pets. Love is being brave and saying what you feel. Love is making music or playing tennis; it's doing what you want to do. Love is holding on and not letting go.

Robert Corbet

#42. It is very important and my success very much depends on the harmony that I feel in my private life. It is essential for me to be happy in my private life. And if it continues, I am able to continue playing tennis.

Novak Djokovic

#43. I've always loved playing tennis. When I was 12, my parents decided that I should try to do it seriously. My father started to travel with me, and as a family, we tried to make it work.

Dominika Cibulkova

#44. 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

#45. 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

#46. I was so tired of playing tennis, so tired of traveling, of hotels, everything related to this sport.

Thomas Muster

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

Mark Steyn

#48. I've been playing tennis, and just whatever sport is in front of me I will do.

Jeanne Tripplehorn

#49. When I was 12, every little girl in Russia was trying to wear her hair like mine and playing tennis.

Anna Kournikova

#50. I'm agnostic because I went through the usual process of parents insisting you go to church, and yet they didn't. So there's me, sitting in the chairs, thinking, 'Jeez, why am I here? I'd rather be playing tennis, seriously.'

Ridley Scott

#51. I'm amazed that years after I stopped playing tennis, people still recognize me in restaurants and ask for my autograph.

Bjorn Borg

#52. If someone where playing tennis you wouldn't walk onto the court and begin to have a conversion with them, likewise I think reading is at least as important as a game of tennis.

Ian McEwan

#53. You know, a lot of things changed. What never changed is the illusion to keep playing tennis, the illusion to keep doing well the things, and the illusion to be in a good position of the ranking and play these kind of matches.

Rafael Nadal

#54. I've been playing against older and stronger competition my whole life. It has made me a better tennis player and able to play against this kind of level despite their strength and experience.

Maria Sharapova

#55. I really enjoy playing with someone else and whether it's chess or tennis or games, I love card games. I love that, but I think there's something so important to gain from winning and losing and learning how to lose and how you can be better from that.

Hilary Swank

#56. Tennis lets you talk while you're playing.

Jane Kaczmarek

#57. The proper method of playing mixed doubles is to swipe the ball accidentally and straight at the woman opponent as hard and as accurately as possible. Male players must not only retain equanimity on their side of the net, but create dissension on the other.

Art Hoppe

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

Virginia Wade

#59. If I stay healthy and I'm playing good tennis I have as good a chance as anybody.

Greg Rusedski

#60. 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

#61. The great part about tennis is you can't run out the clock ... As long as we were still playing, I had a chance.

Andre Agassi

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Joey Green

#63. I began playing in the Pacific Coast Indoor Tennis Championships.

Tracy Austin

#64. That's when you've got to grit your teeth and hang in there and try and find a way to win when you're not playing your best tennis - that's what I can be proud of

Lleyton Hewitt

#65. It's more a tennis problem than a mental problem. The transition is difficult. It depends how much time you have. Playing on grass can sometimes be a bit of a lottery.

Rafael Nadal

#66. 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

#67. 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

#68. Just the other day someone threw a bra duct-taped to a tennis ball. I just stood there, playing guitar, thinking how this was totally premeditated. Some girl sat around inventing a way to get her bra onstage from 40 rows back.

Dave Grohl

#69. Since a month, two months ago, you know, I've started hitting the ball well. I'm playing some really good tennis. That really helps. I sort of have to motivate myself to get pumped up. It really helps my game a lot.

Stefan Edberg

#70. I, as a cricketer, would like to see 100 counties playing top-flight cricket, just like tennis and football. If I am alive to see that, I will be very happy.

Kapil Dev

#71. I'd have loved to have been a footballer. I was always playing football and I enjoyed it much more than tennis to begin with. It's more fun to play in a team, all the parents are there cheering you on.

Andy Murray

#72. Near Shepherd's Bush two thousand Beta-Minus mixed doubles were playing Riemann-surface tennis.

Aldous Huxley

#73. What is the single most important quality in a tennis champion? I would have to say desire, staying in there and winning matches when you are not playing that well.

John McEnroe

#74. When I'm playing my best, like I was at the U.S. Open, I feel on top of the match and able to do exactly what I want. There are other times when you're not in control, but that is tennis and you have momentum changes in every single match.

Samantha Stosur

#75. One of the thrills of playing at the top tennis centres of the world is to see the Indian flag go up whenever I'm participating in these events. That's enough motivation for any Indian who has the opportunity to perform at these tournaments.

Sania Mirza

#76. Tennis is a psychological sport, you have to keep a clear head. That is why I stopped playing.

Boris Becker

#77. You don't need to know who's playing on the White House tennis court to be a good president.

James Baker

#78. 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

#79. I like playing a bit of golf. But, if people went around beating people to
death with golf clubs, I'd say, 'Ban golf. I'll take up tennis'

Stephen Merchant

#80. Onstage, you just have to tell the absolute truth about the character you are playing. You hope you communicate it, and you hope it comes back like a tennis ball. If you're listening to the sound of your own voice, nobody else is. The audience knows, and they freeze on you.

Carol Channing

#81. I started puberty very late. I was nearly sixteen. And for complicated reasons this late arrival of my puberty caused me to stop playing competitive tennis. But before my puberty problem, I had trouble with my lower back and with my left testicle.

Jonathan Ames

#82. To me, acting is like tennis. You're only as good as the person you're playing with, so if you're playing with Michael C. Hall, what do you have to worry about?

Aimee Garcia

#83. Since I retired, I very much enjoy watching Serena Williams play. While I was playing, she was one of the toughest players I ever faced. Her ground strokes are so solid, her serve is one of the most powerful in women's tennis, and mentally she is just so strong.

Monica Seles

#84. I got my first tennis racket on my seventh birthday. And because we had a tennis court in our backyard, I played every day. By ten I was playing competitively.

Tullian Tchividjian

#85. When I am playing well I think I play such boring tennis.

Virginia Wade

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

Albert Brooks

#87. 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

#88. It is never too late to get into tennis! While I started playing at the age of 8 when my parents gave me a tennis racquet for Christmas, tennis is a lifelong sport that can be enjoyed by people of almost any age. It's also something you never forget once you learn.

Samantha Stosur

#89. I'd like to think I could have and should have won more, but that's not the point. And I was at the point where I was playing great tennis in the mid 80s - the type of tennis people hadn't seen before - and I was very proud of that.

John McEnroe

#90. I grew up a little girl in the Soviet Union playing at a small sports club. Tennis gave me my life.

Anna Kournikova

#91. 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

#92. 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

#93. 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

#94. I used to go swimming and passed the tennis courts every day, and that's how it started. My mum said, 'Why don't you play tennis in your summer holidays because you have nothing to do except swim for an hour or whatever?,' and that's how I started playing.

Sania Mirza

#95. I am very obsessed with ballet now because it is a very difficult sport and a beautiful one because it is not about money. It's not like playing football or tennis - dance has no sponsors, it's just for the beauty. Maybe it is the only last pure sport.

Carine Roitfeld

#96. Swinging at daisies is like playing electric guitar with a tennis racket: if it were that easy, we could all be Jerry Garcia. The ball changes everything.

Michael Bamberger

#97. 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

#98. I'm playing great tennis. I'm enjoying the tour, having fun with the fans off the court. I'm loving it now.

Roger Federer

#99. Wimbledon 2014 will be my last slam. To be honest, I am already starting to miss professional tennis, having played at the highest level for two decades. It is what has given me my identity, and I will miss every bit of the action. The thought that I will not be playing anymore is daunting.

Mahesh Bhupathi

#100. I don't recall you playing much tennis. As for the gymnastics ... "
His sexy growl of a laugh seemed to snag Elliot in the guts. "Yeah, you do have some beautiful moves as I recall. They didn't require a lot of footwork.

Josh Lanyon