Tennis Quotes

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.

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.

I never thought tennis was going to give me so much satisfaction.

In Hollywood people lie to each other and cheat each other and then go and play tennis. But I don't want to be a tennis player.

I let my racket do the talking. That's what I am all about, really. I just go out and win tennis matches.

Seems like most of the kids today are into other sports other than tennis.

Anybody who can dial a telephone can master tennis scoring in about 15 minutes.

Family's first, and that's what matters most. We realize that our love goes deeper than the tennis game.

As tennis players, we work and we sacrifice many things. To lose, that's not a happy thing - I mean sure, I was disappointed. You have to come back strong. But to win the last point in a grand slam tournament, that's the most beautiful and most satisfying feeling you can get as a tennis player. It's worth it.

Tennis is seen all around the world; if I am home or anywhere in the country, United States, people will stare.

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.

Golfers are forever working on mechanics. My tennis swing hasn't changed in 10 years.

I'd love to open a tennis school for children in my hometown of Sochi.

I know my serve stinks, but I was a pretty good tennis player.

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.

For the first couple of years I played really bad tennis. It was so bad that they booed me off the court.

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

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.

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

One of the greatest joys of tennis is having a nice volley and not really keeping score, not really looking at the lines, but just catching up with each other.

Well, I think, you know, the university and the high schools are also important, but depends how I'm going to do in tennis - well, I hope. I mean, it depends, so I don't know yet.

It's like playing tennis, you play a different rally with different people. Every actor is different and the chemistry between actors is different.

I definitely want to get out of tennis and try something completely different.

These girls play tennis first and foremost, the fact that many of them are very glamorous is a major bonus for any promoter.

I used to get nervous, you know if my parents would come watch. And then I would get nervous if my friends came and watched. Today it's not a problem anymore actually, because now I enjoy it. I see that they, you know, respect me immensely, and I try to put on a good show and show that I can still play very good tennis.

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

Tennis has had a very positive impact on my life.

Relationships are give-and-take, and when you're a tennis player, you're certainly not giving. You have to be self-absorbed. It has to be about you.

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

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