Tennis Quotes

Dating a tennis player is risky - love means nothing to us.

Cycling isn’t a game, it's a sport. Tough, hard and unpitying, and it requires great sacrifices. One plays football, or tennis, or hockey. One doesn’t play at cycling.

I only ever run when there's some point to it - say, if it's in a game of tennis.

Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.

The roughest thing I ever said to an umpire was, 'Are you sure?'

With all the injury problems we have in men's tennis at the moment, I'm happy to still be standing.

The fifth set is not about tennis, it's about nerves.

If I have a daughter and she plays tennis, and I have a son who plays tennis, I wouldn't say that my son deserves more money because he's a man. I would say they deserve the same amount of money.

There is no relief at it being over. There is the joy of winning it.

When I retired from tennis I wanted to do other things with my life.

I just try to concentrate on concentrating.

People wrote me off, but I believed in myself. I got the confidence back, and it grew and grew. I won my first major and my last at the place that changed my life.

I'm not worried about the weekend, I'm worried about Saturday.

What a polite game tennis is. The chief word in it seems to be "sorry" and admiration of each other's play crosses the net as frequently as the ball.

I was a gypsy, living a carefree life of ponies and tennis.

She [Dokic] left the court with a face as long as thunder.

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 love football and it's the sport I would really like to play. I've said on national television here that I would really love to play for one of our football clubs when I finished my tennis career.

I'm going to have to pick my shots and play great tennis.

I do play tennis, but I don't really like competition. I'm supposed to be so intense, but I hate competition.

I like things to feel a touch unfinished; sweatpants with heels, or tennis shoes with a trouser. Those things are important.

All I cared about in tennis was winning.

The content and thematic materials of dance is, of itself, like boxing. You play tennis and baseball. But boxing is not a sport you play: you stand up and do it.

Tennis is like marrying for money. Love means nothing.

There are many moments during a match when you are tense, wrestling with yourself. Tennis is a lesson in self-control.

Tennis is my dream. It is what I love. And it is what I want to be best at.

Its silly to say it about a tennis player, but Im an unbelievable hero in Germany. And Germany needs heroes more than any place.

I dont play golf or tennis, I dont ski, I dont snowboard. If you love what you do, you never get enough of it.

He [Roger Federer] is the greatest natural talent in tennis I've ever seen. I love to watch the guy play, he's an awesome talent

It's been predictable, in the sense of 'expect the unexpected'.

Winning is a way of expressing yourself.

Honestly, I could get in a car accident today and never play tennis again, and then I wouldn't have anything to fall back on. But fortunately enough, I do.

I've been kicked in the teeth more times in tennis than the law ought to allow.

My mom was a great tennis player, and I remember being six or seven years old watching Steffi Graf and Monica Seles in Wimbledon in my house. I've always been a tennis fan.

I didn't aspire to be a good sport; "champion" was good enough for me.

I was always rather nasty. I was willing to be friends with the Devil, just to cross the bridge.

I was never pegged to be the next great American tennis player by any means. I wasn't a prodigy. I'm a late bloomer. Whatever happens, I'm proud of what I've done.

My parents paid me small amounts for cleaning my room or cleaning the dishes and stuff, but I never really had a real job before I started on my professional tennis career.

My workout was playing other sports and I always played tennis, football, basketball, threw a baseball - I was always doing something to keep me active. That's how I kept my body going.

My theory is that if you buy an ice-cream cone and make it hit your mouth, you can learn to play tennis. If you stick it on your forehead, your chances aren't as good.

Sometimes I wish I could have been a bit more relaxed, but then I wouldn't have been the same player.

You don't have to hate your opponents to beat them.

Golfers are forever working on mechanics. My tennis swing hasn't changed in 10 years.

What drove me to become the world's greatest bodybuilder is no different from what drives other athletes to become great tennis players or boxers or jockeys.

Choking is being in a position to win, and then experiencing some critical failure of nerve or spirit. That never happened to me. And I can't help but think it was because I was never afraid to lose.

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

That's what you do all the hard work for, to play in situations that put your body through gruelling times. If you're not up to it, pull out.

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

The only number that would ever be enough is 0. Zero pounds, zero life, size zero, double-zero, zero point. Zero in tennis is love. I finally get it.

The doctors told me I'd be fine if I play only golf and tennis doubles for the rest of my life. But I dive. I dogsled. I trek. I guess I'll have surgery.