Tennis Quotes

When I was younger, I was a robot. Wind her up and she plays tennis.

A good thing is I've been playing tennis I think every day for the last two months. I really haven't had a day off. I've been doing things that I did used to do.

One day my dad would say, 'OK, if you want to play tennis I can help you out.' And that's how it started. And I had a goal. I wanted to beat my mom first. And my parents and my brother. And that was the ultimate goal.

I was always in the tennis business-from 1968. I was in tournaments and also on World Team Tennis teams as well.

There was endless action - not just football, but sailboats, tennis and other things: movement. There was endless talk - the ambassador at the head of the table laying out the prevailing wisdom, but everyone else weighing in with their opinions and taking part.

I've played too many tennis hours.

Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.

To be a professional tennis player you need to put in these sort of hours.

It's tough when you're No. 1. You don't have any private life, you can't even walk anywhere. I think that was one reason why I lost my motivation to play tennis.

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

After being on the court for six hours, being on TV is very glamorous and fun for me. But tennis is always going to be my priority. It's not going to be this thing when all of a sudden TV will get in the way of that.

If they had rankings in baseball, maybe I would have been able to do the math and figure out my chances of being a professional baseball player versus a tennis player. But that was the decision-maker for me, I just thought I was better in tennis.

I'm really trying to focus myself on playing tennis, and I think that's really important.

I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments.

You always want to win. That is why you play tennis, because you love the sport and try to be the best you can at it.

I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.

Unlike in my young days I'm not able to eat, drink and sleep tennis.

I just feel like it would be so against my personality to have this struggle in tennis and just give up. I know it's not me, not who I am, and that would probably affect other parts of my life.

Tennis is a mental game. Everyone is fit, everyone hits great forehands and backhands.

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

I feel like my whole life only tennis.

My father actually moved out from Chicago just so he could play tennis 365 days a year, so it was - it was a place we played every day. We played before school. We played after school. We woke up. We played tennis. We brushed our teeth in that order.

China tennis - we're getting bigger and bigger.

Tennis was always sort of a - a learning. It was a vehicle for me to discover a lot about myself. And the things that I sort of discovered at times I not only didn't want to see it for myself but I certainly didn't want millions of people to see it.

This was a special week and a special victory for me. I played some great tennis.

It's really football, tennis, and golf that I watch other than hockey.

If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life.