Wimbledon's Quotes

#1. I often surprise myself. You can't plan some shots that go in, not unless you're on marijuana, and the only grass I'm partial to is Wimbledon's.

Rod Laver

#2. I don't know if Wimbledon's seen anything like it. I don't know if they will again. But it was just - it was electric. The Aussie crowd, I'm really proud of them, the way they conducted themselves. You know they're great losers, as well.

Patrick Rafter

#3. 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

#4. There is nothing like playing at Wimbledon; you can feel the footprints of the legends of the game-men and women-that have graced those courts.

Venus Williams

#5. For me, and most of the other players, too, if you had to pick one of the four Grand Slams, you would pick Wimbledon. It's got tradition, it's got atmosphere, and it's got mystique.

Stefan Edberg

#6. The 60th seed at Wimbledon gets a chance at Center Court. The 60th seed in the NCAA gets a chance to go to the Final Four. But the third seed [in presidential politics] is shut out.

Ralph Nader

#7. Well, I don't like to make outlandish statements. Not all the time. But Wimbledon would have beaten them 10-0.

Eamon Dunphy

#8. I would love to do well one last time in Melbourne and my dream would be to win Wimbledon and play in the London Olympics.

Kim Clijsters

#9. I can't become satisfied, because if I get satisfied, I'll be like, "Oh, I've won Wimbledon, I've won the U.S. Open. Now can I relax." But now people are really going to be fighting to beat me.

Serena Williams

#10. When I won in 2003, never in my wildest dreams did I ever think I would win Wimbledon and have my kids seeing me lift the trophy, so this is pretty surreal. And yeah, I was almost shocked in the moment that it all came together so nicely.

Roger Federer

#11. How fitting [it would be if Roger Federer played the first match under the roof] ... he has become known in recent years as the King of Wimbledon ... and this is the day after of the death of the King of Pop.

Sue Barker

#12. Of all my achievements in tennis, I'm probably as proud of my record on clay courts as any of my Wimbledon, U.S. Open or French singles titles.

Chris Evert

#13. Winning Wimbledon was a great feeling and it is still a great feeling. It has given me so much confidence.

Goran Ivanisevic

#14. I think this is the biggest win in my career. To beat Venus in Wimbledon is just something amazing.

Elena Vesnina

#15. Not winning at Wimbledon is not going to bother me forever.

Ivan Lendl

#16. I loved Wimbledon and what it meant, but the surface felt uncomfortable. I just didn't like it, I was a hard-court guy, a Californian kid.

Pete Sampras

#17. At Wimbledon, the ladies are simply the candles on the cake.

John Newcombe

#18. My mom was a great tennis player, and I remember being six or seven years old watching Steffi Graf and Monica Seles in Wimbledon in my house. I've always been a tennis fan.

Tom Brady

#19. From 143rd Street in Harlem to the center court at Wimbledon is about as far as one can travel.

Althea Gibson

#20. 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

#21. I think I can win a slam. That's my main goal, and if I could choose one, then yes, it would have to be Wimbledon. But, honestly, I would take any one of them.

Tomas Berdych

#22. To cry on court during a Wimbledon final, you must feel so lonely.

Marion Bartoli

#23. The great high of winning Wimbledon lasts for about a week. You go down in the record book, but you don't have anything tangible to hold on to. But having a baby
there isn't any comparison.

Chris Evert

#24. I've worked in supermarkets, put tags in baseball caps and provided security during Wimbledon, but I never thought acting would be something I'd be any good at, or make a living from.

Claire Foy

#25. But, then, Sampras won Wimbledon six times and that automatically puts him among the greatest.

Richard Krajicek

#26. I think I owe it to myself and my fans in Britain to play one more Wimbledon.

Goran Ivanisevic

#27. I don't care now if I ever win a match in my life again. Whatever I do in my life, wherever I go, I'm going to be always Wimbledon champion.

Goran Ivanisevic

#28. The only thing 'championship' about Wimbledon is its prestige.

John McEnroe

#29. Wimbledon attracted Bill Clinton to the gallery at Centre Court Tuesday at the All England Club. NBC cameras showed his head turning back and forth with each volley. Even at a tennis match, it looks like he's denying everything.

Argus Hamilton

#30. If you want to be a tennis player, then mould yourself on Roger Federer. I won three Wimbledon titles and I wish I could play like him.

John McEnroe

#31. I am not blonde, yes. Have I dreamt about having a model contract? No. But have I dreamed about winning Wimbledon? Absolutely.

Marion Bartoli

#32. When I won Wimbledon, I said to God: just let me win this one tournament and I won't play another match. Maybe God's telling me to go home, but I don't want to go home. We are negotiating at the moment.

Goran Ivanisevic

#33. Now that I have retired, and even though I wanted to play more, I can always look back and say that at least I won Wimbledon; also, winning the tournament in Rotterdam in 1995.

Richard Krajicek

#34. I will have won Wimbledon this year in 2013, and I will stop with that. It was magnificent. You will certainly see me at tournaments again, but not playing.

Marion Bartoli

#35. 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

#36. You've never potty-trained a toddler, have you, Johanna? It's like working as a ball boy at Wimbledon, but with shit. And it goes on for months. With people crying at you.

Caitlin Moran

#37. I didn't serve and volley until I got to Wimbledon in '77.

John McEnroe

#38. Winning Wimbledon, I can't get my head around that. I still can't believe it's happened.

Andy Murray

#39. If Bengali cuisine were Wimbledon, the hilsa would always play on Centre Court.

Samanth Subramanian

#40. Wimbledon, for me, is the most important tournament of the year, so you know there's always going to be people expecting me to do well.

Andy Murray

#41. Just because you win the French Open it doesn't mean you can do well at Wimbledon.

Li Na

#42. My dinner options are kept simple during Wimbledon. I have either salmon with rice, roast chicken with vegetables and potatoes, or steak with salad. My girlfriend Kim will cook, and I know each night that it will be one of those three.

Andy Murray

#43. My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me. After that, when I can't play Wimbledon, it was tough. For one month I was outside the world.

Rafael Nadal

#44. Wimbledon is the world's most boring tournament. There's hardly anything to do apart from tennis. You constantly find yourself yawning - there's no entertainment here.

Nikolay Davydenko

#45. New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up.

Jimmy Connors

#46. That is what is most special about achieving equality - the positive signal that it will send the world over to the next generation of girls dreaming of winning Wimbledon or becoming a scientist or going to the moon as an astronaut.

Maria Sharapova

#47. Wimbledon is the most prestigious tournament we have, and being able to win it with all the tradition, that's always been a dream of mine.

Daniel Nestor

#48. I am glad that Wimbledon is my last slam. I love the atmosphere and courts of SW19, and it is an addiction, which I will find tough to give up.

Mahesh Bhupathi

#49. I am now the Wimbledon champion, and I think that gives me even more confidence coming to the Olympics. And maybe in some ways, it maybe takes some pressure off the Olympics, because I already did win at Wimbledon this year.

Roger Federer

#50. Borg's won Wimbledon four straight times and out there he has just lost an 18-16 tie breaker. You'd think maybe once he'd let up and say forget it. But oh, no way.

John McEnroe

#51. I've pretty much been portrayed as every style thing you can be. After Wimbledon you are Andy Everyman, who everybody is rooting for. I think the meat and potatoes of who I am hasn't been covered yet.

Andy Roddick

#52. I went to Wimbledon before I could walk. It's just been a lifelong passion.

Anna Wintour

#53. I feel a bit awkward playing in a red shirt out at Wimbledon. But I don't dislike it.

Roger Federer

#54. I'd won the Australian Open twice, but winning Wimbledon takes something special.

Stefan Edberg

#55. I'd love to win Wimbledon.

Jamie Murray

#56. The only other thing that's like video games for me is watching tennis on TV. I can have it on, and there's a rhythmic quality to it - I can be watching Wimbledon or the U.S. Open and still be working.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

#57. I was always a believer in stamping on my opponent if I got him down, at Wimbledon or anywhere else. I never wanted to give him the chance to get up.

Fred Perry

#58. My sporting hero was Drazen Petrovic, the NBA basketball player, who was killed in a car accident in 1993. He was a good friend, an unbelievable player, and I dedicated my Wimbledon win to him.

Goran Ivanisevic

#59. AFC Wimbledon in the League! Talk about the ashes rising from the flames.

Stan Collymore

#60. I was playing in the juniors at Wimbledon I forgot to turn my mobile phone off. It was lying there in my bag and it rang in the middle of a match, and it was one of my friends from school saying, 'Murray, you're on the telly!' I learnt from that. After that I always put my phone on silent.

Andy Murray

#61. Every time I hit the ball on the wall I uses to pretend I was there (Wimbledon). When I went to sleep I used to pretend I was there.

Evonne Goolagong Cawley

#62. If I didn't do well at Wimbledon maybe Chinese people will forget about me.

Li Na

#63. My earliest memory is a picnic in the park near our house, which was next to Wimbledon Common. Why on earth we went to a park when we lived so near the common is a mystery, but it had formal gardens and lawns - perhaps it was that very difference that took my parents there.

Martin Clunes

#64. The first point is always important, more so in a Wimbledon final

Rafael Nadal

#65. I don't need to come back to Wimbledon every year because I can't live without it. I'd be totally cool without tennis.

Roger Federer

#66. It is another Justine Henin who will try and go out there and achieve her dream of finally winning Wimbledon,

Justine Henin

#67. I got to play in a crowd, play in Wimbledon finals, be the guy on a Davis Cup team for a while. Those are opportunities not a lot of people get.

Andy Roddick

#68. Everybody always talks about the pressure of playing at Wimbledon, how tough it is, but the people watching make it so much easier to play.

Andy Murray

#69. I enjoyed seven years at Wimbledon and there were high and low points.

Kenny Cunningham

#70. This decision will only strengthen the bond between women players and one of the world's great sporting events [on equal prize money at Wimbledon

Maria Sharapova

#71. I'm an outside chance at Roland Garros but my focus is really on Wimbledon where it is realistically between me and Roger Federer to win.

Lleyton Hewitt

#72. I want to have lots of bodyguards around me and be surrounded by beautiful women while watching my brother play at Wimbledon.

Alex Pettyfer

#73. This year I guess I decided in the bigger matches to take it more to my opponent instead of waiting a bit more for the mistakes. Yeah, this is I guess how you want to win Wimbledon, is by going after your shots, believing you can do it, and that's what I was able to do today.

Roger Federer

#74. Any quality player can adjust well to the different demands. It is like a good tennis player who is expected to adjust to the clay at the French Open, the grass at Wimbledon, the hard courts of the U.S. and the heat of the Australian Open. A professional is expected to do all that.

Gautam Gambhir

#75. When I was a child, the FA Cup was one of the crown jewels of the sporting year, along with the Grand National, Wimbledon and The Open. But with every announcement it seems to lose another piece of its identity. First it was sponsors added to the name, followed by the semi-finals at Wembley.

Gary Neville

#76. Nor had I any illusions about Algernon Charles Swinburne, who often used to stop my perambulator when he met it on Nurses' Walk, at the edge of Wimbledon Common, and pat me on the head and kiss me: he was an inveterate pram-stopper and patter and kisser.

Robert Graves

#77. A traditional fixture at Wimbledon is the way the BBC TV commentary box fills up with British players eliminated in the early rounds.

Clive James

#78. Grass is a surface I have always loved, Wimbledon is a tournament I have always loved.

Steffi Graf

#79. Everyone dreams of playing Wimbledon and winning it. I am glad this dream came true for me so fast in my career. It feels great after so many years of struggle.

Sania Mirza

#80. I had started my love affair with Wimbledon.

John Newcombe

#81. That match was late evening and I had the experience of the electricity of the Centre Court because it was packed, a full house for the whole match. It had been a great year for me, first time there and I had the full taste of Wimbledon.

John Newcombe

#82. The 1927 Wimbledon finals were almost put off because of the rain, which threatened every moment.

Helen Wills Moody

#83. I had always dreamed of winning Wimbledon and when it happened it was very stressful. It was more of a relief!

Pat Cash

#84. To its great credit, Wimbledon has been a leader in bringing about change and improvement in the sport.

Fred Perry

#85. Everyone knows what the Masters is, even if you're a non-golfer. People know what Wimbledon is. They know what the Super Bowl is. There are certain events that people just know about.

Tiger Woods

#86. The problem at Wimbledon seems to be that the club has suffered a loss of complacency.

Joe Kinnear

#87. It was a match I lost, rather than she won [on Serena Williams winning with an apparent cramp injury at Wimbledon

Daniela Hantuchova

#88. I won the Wimbledon mixed doubles title in 1980.

Tracy Austin

#89. You can't be considered a great player unless you win Wimbledon. That's the way it is.

Mats Wilander

#90. When I lost the Wimbledon 2012 final, I didn't know if I'd ever win a slam.

Andy Murray

#91. It's hard to be in a bad mood when you're walking around looking like you're about to play the semifinals at Wimbledon.

A. J. Jacobs

#92. Neil Sullivan has stopped absolutely everything have thrown at him ... Wimbledon 1, Manchester United 1.

Mike Ingham

#93. Billy Jean King could not get credit when her husband was in law school and she was winning the Wimbledon, because he had to sign the cards. You know, you had these cases in the '70s of women who were mayors who couldn't get credit unless their husbands signed for them.

Gail Collins