Tennis Quotes

I had not picked up a tennis racket in 15 years, so I tried.

I began playing in the Pacific Coast Indoor Tennis Championships.

I started tennis around age 2.

Girls had never been important. I'd had a girlfriend or two and had liked them a lot but it wasn't love, because my first love was tennis.

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

I don't think tennis is a glamour game, not at all.

I'm into menswear slacks that are comfortable.

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

I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.

Women's tennis is two sets of rubbish that lasts only half an hour.

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

All my time in rehab has made me appreciate tennis more than ever.

I was very lucky in as much as I played a lot of tennis.

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

With everything else that would swirl around me when I got involved in it, tennis was my main concern.

Tennis doesn't encourage any kind of intellectual development.

I do a lot of running. Bit of squash, bit of tennis. I don't like feeling out of shape.

I don't play tennis at all.

It was very unusual for a boy to play tennis in my country.

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

Relationships are give-and-take, and when you're a tennis player, you're certainly not giving. You have to be self-absorbed. It has to be about you.

When you are very little tennis should be fun, it should be a game.

The only way to quieten me is to invite me to a tennis match.

So there is not a lot about me that you don't know other than that I play table tennis. I'm great, I'm great at table tennis! You will look at me and go, 'How does that dude know how to play that well?'

I did a really good job of sticking to the tennis court.

Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition and tennis is going to be something I'm probably not very good at.

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

Yeah, I think there are many other important things in life, not just tennis.

I used to be told if I talked about my sexuality in any way that we wouldn't have a tennis tour.

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

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

It's that I have a good personality and am a good tennis player.

Now I do bowling, golf, and tennis. I want to be a good bowler.

There's a lot of ingredients go into being a good tennis player.

I certainly don't lose any sleep if I lose a tennis match.

Too many people asking too many questions in tennis. Golf is better.

These girls play tennis first and foremost, the fact that many of them are very glamorous is a major bonus for any promoter.

This trophy is so special in the world of tennis and it feels great.

I'm a decent tennis player. Good backhand.

Tennis is an individual sport, and I am quite a self-conscious person.

There is a fear of emotion in tennis.

Well, my mum's been a tennis coach - she coached me till I was 12.

Boxing, mixed martial arts and tennis are the hardest sports to train for.

I would like to see it go back to the wood racquets. To see the touch put back in tennis.

I love tennis, love it!

Billie and I did wonders for women's tennis. They owe me a piece of their checks.

Politicians who wear little tennis socks with the balls at the back should not be taken seriously.

I think I've always had a decent perspective on wins and losses on the tennis court.

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

Tennis is pretty unforgiving if you are carrying weight. You are expected to wear short skirts, and you are compared to all these 16 and 17-year-olds.

I would like to thank all my tennis fans who were there from Day One when I was No. 1, through my stabbing, and my comeback.

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

Tennis is so competitive. I guess that's the way it has to be.

I help design my own tennis clothes.

I want my tennis to speak for everything.

I always have a Sharpie, because usually when someone asks me for an autograph, they don't have a pen. I carry one in my purse, as well as in my tennis bag.

To me, anyone with an Australian accent wielding a tennis racket is cool.

Acting is like a game of tennis. The better your opponent, the better you're going to play.

I used to cut guitars out of a piece of cardboard to copy the Strat look. I used a backwards tennis racket for a while and graduated to the cardboard cutout.

I used to play a lot of racket sports, tennis and squash.

Actors need bricks to play with, and in fact we rejected all the improvised fragments we had made without a plan. Improvisation without a plan is like tennis without tennis balls.

I have a strong tennis arm.

Anything over-handed, I do left-handed. Like throwing a ball or serving in tennis. Otherwise, right-handed, like writing and shaving.

Anybody who can dial a telephone can master tennis scoring in about 15 minutes.

I love tennis more than designing because it's actually easier and I don't get nearly as nervous.

Tennis is my job, but it's not my life.

Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.

If I didn't play tennis I don't know where I'd be.

To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.

It's very expensive to be a professional tennis player with all the travel and the flights and the hotels and everything.