Tennis Quotes
- Page 5Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.
Billie Jean King
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.
Venus Williams
I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
Pat Cash
Politicians who wear little tennis socks with the balls at the back should not be taken seriously.
Mo Rocca
When you do something best in life, you don't really want to give that up - and for me it's tennis.
Roger Federer
I enjoy tennis, though don't play very often nowadays, and skiing... oh yes and swimming.
Roger Moore
I think it was the right time for me to retire because nowadays tennis is too incredibly fast and you can say that my style tennis went out of fashion.
Jana Novotna
I think the whole boycott thing was a bit too much. It's because we're accomplished so much in women's tennis in the last two, three years. We deserve something better.
Martina Hingis
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
I think in the lifetime of a tennis player there are many times where you feel that tremendous confidence.
Gabriela Sabatini
There are a lot of good memories, and because I was injured, during the rehab, I met my wife. The tennis was very good but the injuries were good for something too.
Richard Krajicek
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.
Alan Thicke
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.
Joel Edgerton
Few would deny that blacks have become very dominant in athletics: football, basketball, track, now dominant in tennis and dominant in golf.
Jesse Jackson
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
Safin, in his way, is very talented. It is a joy to watch them play; it is tennis of a very high quality.
Richard Krajicek
If you can keep playing tennis when somebody is shooting a gun down the street, that's concentration.
Serena Williams
You don't need to know who's playing on the White House tennis court to be a good president.
James Baker
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.
David Crane
Tennis was never work for me, tennis was fun. And the tougher the battle and the longer the match, the more fun I had.
Jimmy Connors
Ever since that day when I was 11 years old, and I wasn't allowed in a photo because I wasn't wearing a tennis skirt, I knew that I wanted to change the sport.
Billie Jean King
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.
Venus Williams
I used to be told if I talked about my sexuality in any way that we wouldn't have a tennis tour.
Billie Jean King