Tennis Quotes

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

Tennis is my job, but it's not my life.

You'd have to think that if he'd been around today, Rod Laver would have been Rod Laver.

Unbelievable, yet, what else could it be?

It was all right until the sun came out and then everything started getting warmer.

He's now letting Chang play his own game - and he does that better than anyone.

Tennis is a world out of touch with reality

A thousand books on tennis won’t improve your serve, but a thousand serves will.

I started tennis around age 2.

It was so easy to play tennis, so easy.

Tennis is best of three sets, so even if I lose the first set, I still have a chance.

Forget about tennis, I was scared to open my mouth. I didnt even feel worthy of saying something and not sounding stupid.

I still break racquets, but now I do it in a positive way.

The tennis wasn't really very much on my mind, so it wasn't like I was thinking about it all the time.

I chose to stay with tennis and they didn't understand that at the school.

It's like getting the Williams sisters to play (tennis) against a man, and they're far better athletes than she (Sorenstam) is.

Tennis is my life, obviously; I need to focus, I need to win. But it's not the only thing. I'm not going to play forever.

I think I’ll play two years more, if my own body lets me do that... I still think my best tennis is still to come.

I eat whatever I like, but I play tennis and run nearly every day.

I lived in Hollywood long enough to learn to play tennis and become a star, but I never felt it was my home. I was never looking for a home, as a matter of fact.

I love seeing tennis up close.

I don't think the tennis tour is the place to have friends

I think that tennis is a lady's sport, so we should look out there like ladies.

Tennis lets you talk while you're playing.

It's so difficult to find time besides the tennis.

Tennis is the loneliest sport.

You did the best you could," and she seemed to believe I had. I said, "I've just been going through the motions," using the expression my father had after he'd watched my first tennis lesson. "Sweetie," she said, "that's what a lot of life is.

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

If I didn't play tennis I don't know where I'd be.

Nobody actually played tennis in my family.

Martina, she's got several layers of steel out there like a cat with nine lives.

I've always said I'm a good horse but I'm still an underdog.

Almost everybody's here doing the same thing. Who am I to come up with an excuse when there's 64 other players here doing the same thing? 63 others, sorry.

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.

If Davis Cup was a little bit less or once every two years, I would be more inclined to play. But the way it is now, it is too much tennis for me.

It's hard work. It's really hard work, but it's really interesting. We have this camera, I think it's called a SimulCam, and when you play it back, you can see the giant in the scene you just shot. It's incredible. You're reacting to a tennis ball that's way up there, then when you watch it, it's this huge giant's face on it. Wow. That's cool. I just can't wait to see it when it's all edited together and the special effects are all crystal clear. It's going to be, hopefully, amazing.

I play better tennis because the court is there.

I did a really good job of sticking to the tennis court.

Ninety percent of my game is mental. It's my concentration that has gotten me this far.

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

Working with Brando was fun. It was like a tennis match. We played unbelievably well together.

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

When you have a dream, you don't even want to tell yourself straight out that this is what you want. You try to hide it. I never told myself I wanted to be a tennis player. But being an artist, yes, this is what I wanted since I first sat down to draw or paint. I knew that . . . I had that vision.

Yes, because it's Len's obsession with practical. I've never really had that experience that I hear people having of being on an empty soundstage painted green talking to a tennis ball on a stick.

I think Pringles initial intention was to make tennis balls. But on the day that the rubber was supposed to show up, a big truckload of potatoes arrived. But Pringles is a laid back company. They said, "Screw it. Cut 'em up!"

We are not simply intellectual creatures. We wish to make love, to enjoy a gourmet dinner, to jog in the park, to cheer lustily at a ball game, to engage in spirited conversation with our friends, to play bridge or tennis, travel to exotic places, struggle with others to build a better world, and to enjoy the arts. The arts are so vital because they help to make life worth living. Music, poetry, literature, paintings, dance, and the theater are among our richest joys...The fine arts contribute immeasurably to the good life and that is why we cherish them.

Just go out there and do what you've got to do.

Tennis legend Bjorn Borg appeared in a Swedish TV ad urging Swedes to have more sex to solve the country's falling birth rate. America can help. This is a perfect opportunity to name Jesse Jackson ambassador to Sweden.

I submit that tennis is the most beautiful sport there is, and also the most demanding....Basketball comes close, but it's a team sport and lacks tennis's primal mano a mano intensity. Boxing might come close- at least at the lighter weight divisions- but the actual physical damage the fighters inflict on each other makes it too concretely brutal to be really beautiful- a level of abstraction and formality (i.e., play) is necessary for a sport to possess true metaphysical beauty (in my opinion).

I feel that tennis is an art form that is capable of moving the players and the audience - at least a knowledgeable audience-in almost sensual ways. When I'm performing at my absolute best, I think that some of the euphoria I feel must be transmitted to the audience.