Tennis Quotes

I always had a powerful serve. It's one of the best in women's tennis. It's very good to have a weapon like that.

Tennis players we're always playing in center courts that feel like arenas. And when we get on the court and the crowd cheers your name or salutes you - it's like you're a gladiator in the arena. And everyone is cheering - and you're fighting, you're screaming, during your strokes - it feels like you're an animal, fighting for your life.

It wasn't my tennis that made me lose, it was a lot of different things going on, high drama, high emotion.

The thing about tennis is if you stay off for two weeks, or just for three days, you can lose your rhythm quickly. So it's just a question of constant diligence and vigilance.

Tennis helped give me an identity and made me feel like somebody.

I am a hero worshiper. I love the number one tennis player. I love the number one baseball player. I want to see those records broken.

I walk my dogs. I garden a little. I play a bit of tennis. Basically when I have spare time I'm making music.

It's a pity that the tennis is really going down the drain. Every year it's getting worse and worse and worse. There has to be a radical change, and I hope it will be really soon.

I'm only seeing tennis balls these days. And maybe the occasional fashion sketch.

Both of us played basketball, and I played tennis and my knees are done. Now if you ask us head-to-head who wins at golf, I'm asking for a couple of strokes.

Is only a tennis match. At the end, that's life. There is much more important things.

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.

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.

What I want out of tennis is not necessarily just winning.

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.

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.

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.

Even though there are a lot of bright tennis players out there, you still have to protect yourself and save all your mental and emotional energies for tennis.

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.