Tennis Quotes

• With tennis, if you're very good at a young age, you don't even go to your prom. You're down at some tennis academy in Florida where you're on the court 8 hours a day. It's brutal.

  

  Douglas Brunt
  • Good
  • Age
  • Prom

• If the weather is nice, I play tennis, which is pretty much the only exercise that I do. I try to do that as much as I can.

  

  Mark Billingham
  • Pretty
  • Nice
  • Exercise

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

  

  Caroline Wozniacki
  • Player
  • Travel
  • Professional

• Billie Jean King is one of the all-time tennis greats; she's one of the superstars. She's ready for the big one, but she doesn't stand a chance against me. Women's tennis is so far beneath men's tennis; that's what makes the contest with a 55-year-old man the greatest contest of all time.

  

  Bobby Riggs
  • Time
  • Men
  • Women

• I guess tennis is my main art, but fashion is definitely very close.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Art
  • Fashion
  • Tennis

• I love to promote our sport. I love grass-roots tennis. I love coaching. I love all parts of the sport. I love the business side.

  

  Billie Jean King
  • Business
  • Tennis
  • Coaching

• The world over - 50 million children start playing tennis, 5 million learn to play tennis, 500,000 learn professional tennis, 50,000 come to the circuit, 5000 reach the grand slam, 50 reach Wimbledon, 4 to semi final, 2 to the finals, when I was holding a cup I never asked GOD 'Why me?'. And today in pain I should not be asking GOD 'Why me?'

  

  Arthur Ashe
  • World
  • God
  • Children

• I go from being not known to being so known in the tennis world, in Canada in general. It's going to be a little bit of a change to me. I'm going to have to adapt. But that doesn't change things. I still have to work really hard every day.

  

  Denis Shapovalov
  • World
  • Work
  • Tennis

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

  

  Bradley Whitford
  • Tennis

• The first rounds of a tournament are always tricky because playing tennis takes a lot out of you.

  

  Venus Williams
  • You
  • Always
  • Tennis

• For me, it's about the tennis and the trophies. I'm not motivated by money.

  

  Caroline Wozniacki
  • Money
  • Tennis
  • Motivated

• After going through what he went through last year, nothing is that big a deal to him. I think now he respects that it's important to win a tennis match, but it's really a small part of his life.

  

  Brian Baker Bad Religion
  • Small
  • Win
  • Deal

• I have always considered tennis as a combat in an arena between two gladiators who have their racquets and their courage as their weapons.

  

  Yannick Noah
  • Courage
  • Tennis

• It's crazy how it is. I mean, I go from being not known to, you know, being so known in the tennis world, in Canada in general.

  

  Denis Shapovalov
  • World
  • Crazy
  • Tennis

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

  

  Jimmy Connors
  • Law
  • Tennis

• I have been playing tennis for a very long time. Tennis is my life. I see my life in other places, and there are other challenges for me.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• One Oxford poet confessed to me that I had been scary because I talked American and wore tennis shoes.

  

  Donald Hall
  • American
  • Shoes
  • Scary

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

  

  Brad Gilbert
  • Good
  • Job
  • Tennis

• I'm actually a pretty good tennis player!

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Player

• The tennis calendar is incredibly long, so it's normal to go through ups and downs, and you want to keep the ups as long as possible and the downs as short as possible. You have to be realistic with what you're doing.

  

  Kyle Edmund
  • Long
  • Tennis

• When I've written episodes of 'Doctor Who', when it comes to the monster chasing somebody, it's the Doctor and the companion, running down the corridor, being chased by a guy with a stick and a tennis ball on the end. Whereas, when I see the rushes of 'Being Human', we're actually looking at the werewolf, and it just looks real.

  

  Donald Sumpter
  • Real
  • Guy
  • Running

• I was a very good tennis player in Ottawa, Canada - nationally ranked when I was, like, 13. Then I moved to Los Angeles when I was 15, and everyone in L.A. just killed me. I was pretty great in Canada. Not so much in Los Angeles.

  

  Matthew Perry
  • Good
  • Great
  • Pretty

• Well, I think, you know, the university and the high schools are also important, but depends how I'm going to do in tennis - well, I hope. I mean, it depends, so I don't know yet.

  

  Daniela Hantuchova
  • Important
  • High
  • Hope

• I often make the analogy with tennis. Every match the rules are the same, but no game is ever the same. Theatre is like that. Every time is different.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Time
  • Different
  • Game

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