Quotes About Tennis

#1. I don't want to end my career and then start something, I like to do something while my career is still hot and I've always enjoyed designing. There's plenty of time after my tennis to definitely go full-time fashion, when I have arthritis and all that fun stuff.

Serena Williams

#2. I was thinking that if I hit his nuts, maybe he would serve like a woman.

Thomas Muster

#3. A lot of the players are very complimentary about each other; they embrace at the end of matches because the level of the tennis has been so good. I think that's something that tennis has got to be proud of.

Andy Murray

#4. I'm just glad Open tennis is here. It's great for the game. That's more important.

Pancho Gonzales

#5. I had a great tennis career. I have no regrets. But to find peace with yourself, and to finally be with your family - I'm probably the happiest guy in the world.

Bjorn Borg

#6. We haven't had any more rain since it stopped raining.

Harry Carpenter

#7. Tennis is like a wonderful, longstanding relationship with a husband. Golf is a tempestuous, lousy lover; it's totally unpredicatable, a constant surprise.

Dinah Shore

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

Karin Slaughter

#9. I love swimming, tennis, and I am taking up golf. I am not serious about it, I just go to the range and practice. Other than that, I enjoy going to the movies and hanging out with my friends.

Mila Kunis

#10. Zivojinovic seems to be able to pull the big bullet out of the top drawer

Mike Ingham

#11. I love various sports, including basketball, tennis and billiards.

Yani Tseng

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. I often make the analogy with tennis. Every match the rules are the same, but no game is ever the same. Theatre is like that. Every time is different.

Kevin Spacey

#15. I will do everything in my power to make sure people are aware that our team is out there fighting the good fight for the tennis fans of the United States.

Jim Courier

#16. You want to try and win as many slams as possible in your career. As a tennis player, that's what we always dream of as a kid, wanting to play slams, wanting to win them.

Sania Mirza

#17. Tennis is a full-time job and not just the two hours that people see when we're on the court.

Andy Roddick

#18. table tennis in the afternoon...

Phillip Lundberg

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. I rarely wear tennis shoes. I'm 5' 8', I hate being short.

Elton John

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

Jane Kaczmarek

#23. The Gullikson twins here. An interesting pair, both from Wisconsin.

Dan Maskell

#24. 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

#25. Tennis has always been a big challenge to me and to be able to play that kind of tennis - well, only tennis can produce these feelings for me.

Steffi Graf

#26. He [Andy Roddick] doesn't make mistakes, only when he has to.

Andrew Castle

#27. I'm not worried about the weekend, I'm worried about Saturday.

Pete Sampras

#28. I'd rather play tennis than go to the dentist.
I'd rather play soccer than go to the doctor.
I'd rather play Hurk than go to work.
Hurk? Hurk? What's Hurk?
I don't know, but it must be better than work.

Shel Silverstein

#29. 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

#30. The ball is round, the game is long.

Bjorn Borg

#31. It's very expensive to be a professional tennis player with all the travel and the flights and the hotels and everything.

Caroline Wozniacki

#32. She must have been a soccer player or tennis or something 'cause she was definitely packing "the Serena.

G.L. Tomas

#33. Tennis is physical chess.

Rita Mae Brown

#34. Politicians who wear little tennis socks with the balls at the back should not be taken seriously.

Mo Rocca

#35. In these days of modern tennis a player is as strong as his weakest stroke.

Bill Tilden

#36. If you see a tennis player who looks as if he is working hard, that means he isn't very good.

Helen Wills

#37. I want to be remembered as a great player, but I guess it will be as a player who got angry on a tennis court.

John McEnroe

#38. One Oxford poet confessed to me that I had been scary because I talked American and wore tennis shoes.

Donald Hall

#39. Cristiano reminds me of German tennis player Michael Stich. He was destined to make history, but then Boris Becker showed up. Cristiano is so fast, so strong, so incredible, but he has one problem: Leo Messi.

Jurgen Klopp

#40. A man should never wear shorts in the city. Flip-flops and shorts in the city are never appropriate. Shorts should only be worn on the tennis court or on the beach.

Tom Ford

#41. In tennis, at the end of the day you're a winner or a loser. You know exactly where you stand ... I don't need that anymore. I don't need my happiness, my well-being, to be based on winning and losing.

Chris Evert

#42. 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

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

Virginia Wade

#44. 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

#45. Elizabeth studied the blurry tabloid photo, which showed her cousin Mary Stuart leaving a Paris disco at dawn, drunkenly clinging to the arm of a French tennis pro. The message was very clear. Put passion first and you end up neither loved nor respected.

Barbara Taylor Bradford

#46. I always preferred working with somebody so I could look into their eyeballs and play tennis.

Carol Burnett

#47. 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

#48. 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

#49. Tennis was more than a passing interest, but I found my ability didn't measure up to these West Coast kids who had played 12 months a year and taken it much more seriously than I.

Kevin Warsh

#50. In tennis, because of the way it's scored, I don't think that scoring one point out of luck is ever decisive in winning. But, of course, it depends on the moment.

Rafael Nadal

#51. I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments.

Arthur Ashe

#52. 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

#53. I'm not the next Kournikova-I want to win matches!

Maria Sharapova

#54. 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

#55. I took high school very casually. There was Teen Town, chess, tennis, boxing, running. Lots of things going on.

Robert Mundell

#56. 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

#57. I would like to see it go back to the wood racquets. To see the touch put back in tennis.

Jana Novotna

#58. Jimmy Connors likes the ball to come at him in a straight line, so that he can hit it back in another straight line. When it comes to him in a curve, he uses up half of his energy straightening it up again.

Clive James

#59. To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.

Venus Williams

#60. I'm only superstitious on the tennis court.

Rafael Nadal

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

Greg Rusedski

#62. Life is like a tennis game. You can't win without serving.

Arthur Ashe

#63. He's up there. But (Marat) Safin, on his game, is as hard to beat.

Lleyton Hewitt

#64. 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

#65. Bjorn Borg looks like a hunchbacked, jut-bottomed version of Lizabeth Scott, impersonating a bearded Apache princess.

Clive James

#66. 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

#67. If the English language had been properly organized ... then there would be a word which meant both 'he' and 'she', and I could write, 'If John or Mary comes heesh will want to play tennis', which would save a lot of trouble.

A.A. Milne

#68. We [Americans] are a football-baseball-basketball-golf culture with some ocassional forays into tennis and less often the winter sports ...

Michael Wilbon

#69. 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

#70. Me writing about tennis is like a baker baking bread.

Ion Tiriac

#71. Acting is a bit like tennis in that you can't really do it on your own.

Tom Hiddleston

#72. My hobbies are cooking and gardening, especially growing orchids. I love soccer, my husband and I support a British team called Chelsea, and I also enjoy tennis. We have 3 cats.

Juliet Mills

#73. Tas had been teasing Flint unmercifully all morning, calling him "Seamaster" and "Shipmate" asking him the price of fish, and how much he would charge to Ferry them back across the lake. Flint finally threw a rock at him, and Tennis sent ass down to the lake to scrub out the pans.

Margaret Weis

#74. If you look at tennis, the girls have become much more attractive; they wear makeup. In my generation, you were a tennis player. It wasn't like you had to look a certain way.

Monica Seles

#75. I bought my Grasshoppers tennis shoes at a flea market in Brooklyn. They are so comfortable to lounge around in on tour.

Wynter Gordon

#76. Right now, I'm at the top of the world in my game so my focus isn't on when I'm going to end. My focus is on playing the best tennis that I can, and there is no end to that.

Venus Williams

#77. And here's Zivojinovic, six foot six inches tall and fourteen pounds ten ounces.

Dan Maskell

#78. When you're with another actor and doing something very intense, often you pull them over to your side, or they pull you over to theirs. But if you stay in your own truth, you can play that perfect tennis match. I always want to bring my power, but not in a way that eliminates the whole game!

Giancarlo Esposito

#79. 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

#80. I thought about tennis. But the more I thought about the whole thing - lessons, equipment, going to the courts - I said screw it, I'm just going to go buy a pair of sneakers and go running.

Biz Stone

#81. I killed a squirrel once with a car. Twice with a tennis racket.

Anthony Jeselnik

#82. If you don't do something special against Chris Evert you find yourself losing concentration after 35 shots.

Julie Heldman

#83. I was never pegged to be the next great American tennis player by any means. I wasn't a prodigy. I'm a late bloomer. Whatever happens, I'm proud of what I've done.

John Isner

#84. 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

#85. No matter what happens, tennis is still tennis: You can see a lot of great matches, a lot of new people.

Marat Safin

#86. If I played tennis, I had to be in a dance class. I always had multiple activities, so I never had to count on any one of them to feel successful.

Kaley Cuoco

#87. Once you reach a good level in tennis it fills you with a lot of motivation. I hope I can do it for a long time.

Roger Federer

#88. I am the greatest tennis player. The other players are like coins in my pocket that I give to a homeless man.

Novak Djokovic

#89. I came to America because of a tennis scholarship. I really wanted to get away because I was really frustrated about my injury so my mother said, "Go to America for four months and just open your eyes and see that there's more things than tennis." That's what happened.

Boris Kodjoe

#90. I did realise more than ever, after the stabbing, that tennis is a business - a tough business.

Monica Seles

#91. It's tough when you're No. 1. You don't have any private life, you can't even walk anywhere. I think that was one reason why I lost my motivation to play tennis.

Bjorn Borg

#92. Chris Lloyd came out of the dressing room like a pistol.

Virginia Wade

#93. I just feel like it would be so against my personality to have this struggle in tennis and just give up. I know it's not me, not who I am, and that would probably affect other parts of my life.

Michael Chang

#94. Thankfulness and gratitude are the foundation of character and being able to serve others.

Jim Loehr

#95. Tennis can be a grind and there's always the danger of going stale if you think about it too much. You can get embittered if you train too hard and have nothing else on your mind. You have to be able to relax between matches and between tournaments.

Maureen Connolly

#96. I enjoy hitting tennis balls. I haven't lost any of the innocent parts of tennis. I just do it in front of less people.

Andy Roddick

#97. If you give me a short shot I will attack you. I'm not a baseliner who rallies. I try to get the point over with.

Venus Williams

#98. 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

#99. Men can have a huge turnover of sponsorship and still survive a lot better than the women. But the women's ratings are better, at least at home in the United States than in the men's tennis.

Billie Jean King

#100. I have never been a fan of science fiction. For me, fiction has to explore the combinatorial possibilities of people interacting under the constraints imposed by our biology and history. When an author is free to suspend the constraints, it's tennis without a net.

Steven Pinker