Tennis Quotes

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.

My first job was in sixth grade, sweeping the clay tennis courts at the yacht club near my house, which I was not a member of. Always had to pay my own rent. But I don't really have any concept of how money works. I don't know how much things cost. Like a BMW. Or a quart of milk. It's embarrassing.

I grew up on the tennis court with lots of other kids. There were like 40 kids all afternoon and I was one of the youngest ones, so I always had to chase everybody to keep up.

I grew up on games like Madden and NBA Jam, then moved on to NFL 2K on Dreamcast. The game I really loved was Virtua Tennis.

I started tennis around age 2.

Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.

Tennis is mostly mental. Of course, you must have a lot of physical skill, but you can't play tennis well and not be a good thinker. You win or lose the match before you even go out there.

I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.

I feel like my whole life only tennis.

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

When you do something best in life, you don't really want to give that up - and for me it's tennis.

I enjoy tennis, though don't play very often nowadays, and skiing... oh yes and swimming.

The thing is, it's not good anyway for eight-year-olds to be out there playing tennis tournaments so soon in their lives. But when I did get to play in a tournament, when I was nine, I was overjoyed.

I used to be told if I talked about my sexuality in any way that we wouldn't have a tennis tour.

It's just nice to see people enthusiastic about their tennis and want to learn and improve - for me that's the most important thing - I still love my tennis.

I always wanted to help make tennis a team sport.

Tennis is so competitive. I guess that's the way it has to be.

It was very hard for me to practice and enjoy my tennis, and I didn't know the why, so I worked with psychologists to try and see what was happening. They pushed me really hard.

I think in the lifetime of a tennis player there are many times where you feel that tremendous confidence.

We look for opportunities to play together including basketball, tennis, swimming, riding bikes and touch football. I try to provide a loving environment where we can play. I think that's good on so many levels - emotionally, for family interactions and, of course, physically.

The only way to quieten me is to invite me to a tennis match.

To act with a tennis ball and imagine it's a tentacle, or if you're in some kind of wilderness film and you go, 'Okay, we can't have a grizzly bear here, but imagine when you step over the rock there there's a grizzly bear.' I don't know. They're tough moments.

Few would deny that blacks have become very dominant in athletics: football, basketball, track, now dominant in tennis and dominant in golf.

In the States, tennis is sixth or seventh on the totem pole as far as sports go.

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.

There are not many Irish people playing tennis!

Safin, in his way, is very talented. It is a joy to watch them play; it is tennis of a very high quality.

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

You don't need to know who's playing on the White House tennis court to be a good president.

Another little known fact about Amazing Tennis - the computer opponents are modeled after real people. In an odd turn of events, I joined a division 3 college tennis team at age 38.