Tennis Quotes

Tennis Quote of the day

Losing is not my enemy..fear of losing is my enemy.

Pressure is a privilege - it only comes to those who earn it.

I fear no one, but respect everyone.

If somebody says I am better than Roger, I think this person doesn't know anything about tennis.

A smart girl is one who knows how to play tennis, golf, piano -- and dumb.

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

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

People know me. I'm not going to produce any cartwheels out there. I'm not going to belong on Comedy Central. I'll always be a tennis player, not a celebrity.

Why do I wear tennis shoes? That's two questions. Do I wear tennis shoes? The answer to that question is, "Yes." "Why?" That's a question philosophers have been pondering for centuries.

As tennis players, you are never satisfied. We are greedy as players, always want better results.

Men can have a huge turnover of sponsorship and still survive a lot better than the women. But the women's ratings are better, at least at home in the United States than in the men's tennis.

I play each point like my life depends on it.

Being champion is all well and good, but you can't eat a crown.

A lot of people now think Im a shoe. They dont even know I was a tennis player. The shoe has really taken on a life of its own, way beyond me.

In tennis, you can make a couple of mistakes and still win. Not in golf. I played three rounds in that Tahoe event, and I was drained. Mentally, not physically.

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.

The older I get, the better I used to be.

In tennis the addict moves about a hard rectangle and seeks to ambush a fuzzy ball with a modified snow-shoe.

In tennis, you can make a couple of mistakes and still win. Not in golf.

In tennis, it is not the opponent you fear, it is the failure itself, knowing how near you were but just out of reach.

Tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love - the basic elements of tennis are those of everyday existence, because every match is a life in miniature.

I love jeans, T-shirts, boots, and tennis shoes.

Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work

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

To be a tennis champion, you have to be inflexible. You have to be stubborn. You have to be arrogant. You have to be selfish and self-absorbed. Kind of tunnel vision almost.

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.

The next point - that's all you must think about.

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 used to travel in tennis shoes; I am just not allowed to anymore. I'm an old hippie from San Francisco.

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

Tennis has to become everything to you if you're going to make it to the top. You have to live it.

A smile is a curve that can straighten out a lot of problems.

I'm not afraid of anyone, but sometimes I'm afraid of myself. The mental part is very important.

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.

The Gullikson twins here. An interesting pair, both from Wisconsin.

That's one of the best sets I've seen him play, although I should preface that by saying I haven't seen him play before.

Dreams do come true if you keep believing in yourself. Anything is possible.

I love the feel of hitting the ball hard, the pleasure of a rally. It is these things that make tennis the delightful game that it is.

My motto is: I'm alive, so that means I can do anything.

I really stay busy [in retirement]. I often have to cancel my golf games on the weekends to go play in tennis tournaments.

It's like love. When you look too hard, you don't find it. When you let it happen naturally, it comes.

We all choke. Winners know how to handle choking better than losers.

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.

Life is like a tennis game. You can't win without serving.

In my mind, I'm always the best. If I walk out on the court (and) I think the next person is better, I've already lost.

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

I killed a squirrel once with a car. Twice with a tennis racket.

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.

I want to be remembered as a great player, but I guess it will be as a player who got angry on a tennis court.

I have always believed that my job is to try and give my best on the tennis courts.