Top 100 Quotes About Sports Tennis
#1. I used to play a lot of racket sports, tennis and squash.
Jason Statham
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. I grew up a little girl in the Soviet Union playing at a small sports club. Tennis gave me my life.
Anna Kournikova
#5. Boxing, mixed martial arts and tennis are the hardest sports to train for.
Andy Murray
#6. There is no life for girls in team sports past Little League. I got into tennis when I realized this, and because I thought golf would be too slow for me, and I was too scared to swim.
Billie Jean King
#7. Sex doesn't interfere with your tennis; it's staying out all night trying to find it that affects your tennis.
Andre Agassi
#8. Sport doesn't know barriers, really. You are judged on your performance ... how far you can jump, how fast you can run, how well you can hit a tennis ball.
Martina Navratilova
#9. 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
#10. I love tennis! I've always felt like this because it is such a classy sport with a great, competitive flair to it.
Roger Federer
#11. I am very blessed to be able to play tennis, the sport that I love and very grateful for the opportunities to play in the finals of big events, when the season starts you are on the roll constantly and obliged to be committed to daily routines on and off the court.
Roger Federer
#12. When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again.
Hugo Black
#13. The content and thematic materials of dance is, of itself, like boxing. You play tennis and baseball. But boxing is not a sport you play: you stand up and do it.
Twyla Tharp
#14. 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
#15. My body is for my tennis - it's for my sport. I'm not a model at all. I don't work out to go to the beach: I work out to play well and to do well on the court.
Stanislas Wawrinka
#16. Receiving the Newcombe Medal for a third year in a row is an amazing honour. The Newcombe Medal is a great occasion for the Australian tennis community to come together and celebrate our sport, recognise people's achievements and contributions to Australian tennis.
Samantha Stosur
#17. What if, when Tracy Austin writes that after her 1989 car crash, 'I quickly accepted that there was nothing I could do about it,' the statement is not only true but exhaustively descriptive of the entire acceptance process she went through?
David Foster Wallace
#18. Acting is a sport. On stage you must be ready to move like a tennis player on his toes. Your concentration must be keen, your reflexes sharp; your body and mind are in top gear, the chase is on. Acting is energy. In the theatre people pay to see energy.
Clive Swift
#19. If I make a change to a young kid to play any sport, not only tennis, instead of spending time in front of the TV or computer, that is good. I want to give them a good example: 'Hey, go out and play and see the world.'
Ana Ivanovic
#20. Tennis is a hard sport. There is a lot of competition all year and you play alone.
Rafael Nadal
#21. Tennis is a very objective sport in the sense that the scoreboard doesn't lie.
Andre Agassi
#22. Professional tennis has become an extremely physical and unbelievably competitive sport. Injuries are the bane of tennis players, and it goes with the territory.
Sania Mirza
#23. Team sports, there's always some kind of sacrifice happening ... A team, if we lose, if Michael Jordan has a bad night, you hang it on him a little bit ... but if you lose as a tennis player, you have no one to blame but yourself, and that's a different beast.
Marc Blucas
#24. I have never cared especially for outdoor sports and have no desire to excel at tennis, swimming, or golf. I'll leave those things to the men.
Marilyn Monroe
#25. Tennis doesn't owe me anything. Tennis is one of the fairest sports. It's given me so many extraordinary feelings.
David Ferrer
#26. Tennis is not like other sports where the coach is hired by an independent entity, and that makes a huge difference in the dynamic.
Ivan Lendl
#27. I'm not a team sports person type person, so I probably would have been good at tennis, because I like tennis. But my parents really didn't push me. I think if my parents would have guided me and stay committed, I could have played any sport I wanted to, but I never did.
Laila Ali
#28. Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.
Billie Jean King
#29. 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
#30. I think that tennis is a lady's sport, so we should look out there like ladies.
Anna Kournikova
#31. I just wanted to play tennis. I started because I wanted to pick up another sport and then as I was slowly getting better I wanted to see how far I can go but I always wanted to be myself. I wanted to be original. I didn't want to copy anybody's style.
Jana Novotna
#33. Tennis is a funny game, and it takes a life-time of keeping one's eyes open on the circuit to have any chance of understanding the strange phenomena that exist in our exciting sport!
Sania Mirza
#34. Cycling isn't a game, it's a sport. Tough, hard and unpitying, and it requires great sacrifices. One plays football, or tennis, or hockey. One doesn't play at cycling.
Jean De Gribaldy
#35. Team sports aren't my thing. I find it easier to pick something up if I can do it at my own speed. And you don't need a partner to go running, you don't need a particular place, like in tennis, just a pair of trainers.
Haruki Murakami
#36. In the States, tennis is sixth or seventh on the totem pole as far as sports go.
Andy Roddick
#37. I love sports. I've played basketball, baseball, soccer, tennis, track and field growing up.
Michael B. Jordan
#38. 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
#39. There is a terrific apprehension among some people that blacks will take over the sport ... It will create problems because their behavior, speech and dress is just a completely different culture.
Arthur Ashe
#40. 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
#41. If you have team spirit you can even beat better teams. As far as team sport is concerned China might need a change in attitude in comparison to the one in table tennis.
Berti Vogts
#42. I've been playing tennis, and just whatever sport is in front of me I will do.
Jeanne Tripplehorn
#43. Since I was a kid, I've wanted to do sports for a living. In the beginning, I played a lot of soccer, but in the end I chose tennis. I love sports in general ... But tennis is my passion.
Rafael Nadal
#44. I was so tired of playing tennis, so tired of traveling, of hotels, everything related to this sport.
Thomas Muster
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. You always want to win. That is why you play tennis, because you love the sport and try to be the best you can at it.
Roger Federer
#48. Tennis players are very fortunate that unlike some disciplines of sport, in mega-sporting events like the Grand Slams, they have a huge platform to showcase their talents on the world stage once every few months.
Sania Mirza
#49. I've been asked a lot lately if tennis is clean or not. I don't know any more how you judge whether a sport is clean. If one in 100 players is doping, in my eyes that isn't a clean sport.
Andy Murray
#50. 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
#51. Tennis is an individual sport, and I am quite a self-conscious person.
Andy Murray
#52. I've been an athlete all my life. I was a competitive figure skater, and then when I realized skating was not an adult sport I took up tennis and played that quite seriously from the time I was about 18.
Condoleezza Rice
#53. Ever since that day when I was 11 years old, and I wasn't allowed in a photo because I wasn't wearing a tennis skirt, I knew that I wanted to change the sport.
Billie Jean King
#54. Like all sports fans, tennis junkies are not satisfied with simply following the current crop of players and admiring their accomplishments. They seemingly always need to compare players of different eras and designate one of them as the greatest player of all time.
Dave McPherson
#55. 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
#56. He was working that charm right now on the trainer who kneeled before him and touched his thigh as though it were the thigh of David, Michelangelo's glorious statue come to life right here on court.
A.G. Starling
#57. For me, tennis is a sport. It's not a job, it's a sport.
Gael Monfils
#58. My dad's method in his madness was to try every sport and then observe what I liked. I played football, tennis, golf, cricket but I loved my snooker.
Ronnie O'Sullivan
#59. You will never have great tennis champions from England because of the cold and dark, but most of all because people only care about the sport for two weeks a year, and then they're on to something else. There's just not a great love of the sport there.
Monica Seles
#60. I didn't cry when they buried my father - I wouldn't let myself. I didn't cry when they buried my sister. On Thursday night, with my family asleep upstairs, my eyes filled as Agassi and Marcos Baghdatis played out the fifth set of their moving second-round match.
Greg Garber
#61. If somebody says I am better than Roger, I think this person doesn't know anything about tennis.
Rafael Nadal
#62. Acting is a sport, like a game of tennis, and you and your opponent take turns setting the level of play.
Shawnee Smith
#63. I did always dream of being a professional player. I think every kid does dream of being a pro, but to last the journey you have to love tennis as a sport and if you are lucky enough to make it in the pros, it is really a bonus.
Samantha Stosur
#64. There is no cheap way to achieve the ability to turn pro in tennis; it unfortunately is more expensive than team sports.
Martina Navratilova
#65. I was sporty in high school. I played tennis and hockey, and was basketball captain. Then I went to university and stopped doing sport and started eating ice cream.
Rebel Wilson
#66. I love football and it's the sport I would really like to play. I've said on national television here that I would really love to play for one of our football clubs when I finished my tennis career.
Novak Djokovic
#67. Tennis is such an individual and competitive sport, but it is great being part of a team and getting to know the girls outside of tennis - even though we are all competing for the same thing!
Dominika Cibulkova
#68. The point about football in Britain is that it is not just a sport people take to, like cricket or tennis. It is built into the urban psyche, as much a common experience to our children as are uncles and school. It is not a phenomenon : it is an everyday matter.
Arthur Hopcraft
#69. 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
#70. We [Americans] are a football-baseball-basketball-golf culture with some ocassional forays into tennis and less often the winter sports ...
Michael Wilbon
#71. Tennis is one of the only sports in America where the sport doesn't grow with the size of the person - it just forces you to swallow the whole pill.
Andre Agassi
#72. Even though now I'm pretty popular in my country and tennis is the No. 1 sport, and I'm very flattered that the people recognise me and come up and give me compliments, I'm more a person who likes to have privacy and peace.
Novak Djokovic
#73. No athletes talk to themselves like tennis players. Pitchers, golfers, goalkeepers, they mutter to themselves, but tennis players talk to themselves-and answer. Tennis players look like lunatics in a public square.
Andre Agassi
#74. Tennis taught me to take chances, to take life as it comes. To hit every ball that comes to me no matter how hard it looks, to give it my best shot.
Thisuri Wanniarachchi
#75. 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
#76. I love various sports, including basketball, tennis and billiards.
Yani Tseng
#77. 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
#78. I come from a family that has always emphasized and enjoyed sports - golf, tennis, football, baseball and the rest.
Robert Kennedy
#79. Seems like most of the kids today are into other sports other than tennis.
Jana Novotna
#80. Tennis and golf are best played, not watched.
Roger Kahn
#81. Everything in tennis is so neat and nice but boxing has sport down to its essence; it is very pure and I like that.
Andy Murray
#82. Tennis is a psychological sport, you have to keep a clear head. That is why I stopped playing.
Boris Becker
#84. Golf can be tougher than tennis when things go wrong, because you can't explain things by saying that your opponent played better than you. It's a cruel sport in that way.
Caroline Wozniacki
#85. Where is women's sports prominently displayed with the men? Tennis is the only thing I can think of.
Ronda Rousey
#86. Humility is the recognition of your limitations, and it is from this understanding, and this understanding alone, that the drive comes to work hard at overcoming them.
John Carlin, Rafael Nadal
#87. I feel like I don't have to win anymore. I've had a wonderful career. Tennis has given me so much, things I would have never expected in my life. I feel honored to even be a part of such a wonderful sport.
Serena Williams
#88. You've got to go through hell ... Before you get to heaven ... Let's do 10 more
Frank Giampaolo
#89. Golf is the only sport I know of where a player pays for every mistake. A man can muff a serve in tennis, miss a strike in baseball, or throw an incomplete pass in football and still have another chance to square himself. In golf, every swing counts against you.
Lloyd Mangrum
#90. I love to promote our sport. I love grass-roots tennis. I love coaching. I love all parts of the sport. I love the business side.
Billie Jean King
#91. I played all kinds of sports when I was young: tennis, handball, basketball, some soccer. I focused on basketball when I was 16 or 17 and then came to the U.S. when I was 20.
Dirk Nowitzki
#92. I tried all kinds of sports when I was a kid, like soccer and tennis and golf, and, in fact, started skating to be able to play hockey.
Patrick Chan
#93. The tennis ball doesn't know how old I am. The ball doesn't know if I'm a man or a woman or if I come from a communist country or not. Sport has always broken down these barriers.
Martina Navratilova
#94. I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
Robert Frost
#95. If you screw things up in tennis, it's 15-love. If you screw up in boxing, it's your ass.
Randall "Tex" Cobb
#96. I have a passion for playing tennis and enjoy the workload and struggles of performing in this amazing global sport.
Sania Mirza
#97. Acting is like a sporting match; a tennis game, but no one should win or lose. The game's the thing!
Jon Polito
#98. I'm not afraid of anyone, but sometimes I'm afraid of myself. The mental part is very important.
Justine Henin
#99. My parents wanted me and my siblings to practice some sports outside school. And since we lived next to a tennis club, we decided to play tennis. I didn't have an idol, so to speak, but I always enjoyed watching Pete Sampras and Alex Corretja.
Stanislas Wawrinka
#100. I'm a big sports guy - golf, tennis, baseball, basketball, snowboarding - and I love games.
Jason Dohring
