Tennis Quotes

• My parents had the plan for my life from the moment my mother tested positive with me. Looking back now, I'd say the hard turn for me was when I left school after the eighth grade to play tennis full time and study some with a travelling tutor.

  

  Douglas Brunt
  • Life
  • Time
  • School

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

  

  Donald Hall
  • American
  • Shoes
  • Scary

• Even though there are a lot of bright tennis players out there, you still have to protect yourself and save all your mental and emotional energies for tennis.

  

  Chris Evert
  • Emotional
  • Tennis

• The idea of doing a tennis movie is truly unbelievable to me. Well, first of all, they don't really exist.

  

  David Walton
  • Movie
  • Tennis

• You know growing up in Sweden meant we had a lot of rain when we played tennis. We were taught on clay courts but because of the weather, we had to go indoors a lot.

  

  Bjorn Borg
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Rain

• But, I would say when I was four years old and I was at the Alan King Tennis Tournament and I was hitting with all the pros that would come to town. They would get me on the court or take notice and that stayed with me.

  

  Andre Agassi
  • King
  • Tennis

• I grew up a little girl in the Soviet Union playing at a small sports club. Tennis gave me my life.

  

  Anna Kournikova
  • Life
  • Up
  • Girl

• My personal style is really comfy: flats, tennis shoes, ponytails, no makeup.

  

  Kristin Bauer van Straten
  • Style
  • Shoes
  • Makeup

• 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 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

• It was okay for Wayne Gretzky's dad, for instance, to give him a hockey stick, or Joe Montana's dad to give him a football, or Larry Bird's dad to give him a basketball, but it wasn't okay for Gloria Connors to give her son a tennis racquet.

  

  Jimmy Connors
  • Dad
  • Football
  • Son

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

  

  Venus Williams
  • You
  • Always
  • Tennis

• 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

• I don't think about tennis 24/7. I enjoy time on the lake at my Florida home and just being lazy on the sofa.

  

  Andy Roddick
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Home

• Seeing the intensity and power she brings to the game, it's hard to imagine her being anything but single-minded in pursuing tennis. But Serena Williams has other passions, too. In fact, there doesn't seem to be enough time in the day, week or month for one of the world's most gifted athletes to chase her many interests.

  

  Don Yaeger
  • Time
  • World
  • She

• It makes you also realize, 'OK, I'm excited to play tennis, and I work really hard to be the best tennis player I think I can be,' but I don't waste my time on stupid stuff, you know what I mean.

  

  Kim Clijsters
  • Time
  • Work
  • Player

• I played all kinds of sports when I was young: tennis, handball, basketball, some soccer. I focused on basketball when I was 16 or 17 and then came to the U.S. when I was 20.

  

  Dirk Nowitzki
  • Sports
  • Basketball
  • Soccer

• You have to be realistic. I'd love to be more famous, have lots of people supporting me, people knowing my name, but I need a tennis racket or a golf club or to play football. Being a female, I don't stand a chance.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • People
  • Love
  • Football

• 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

• Baseball began early for me. When I was 5, my father took two Little League bats and put them on a lathe. He whittled them down and sanded the bats so they were the proper size for my brother and me. He began by throwing tennis balls to us. Eventually, we practiced hitting and fielding at a field near our house.

  

  Keith Hernandez
  • Father
  • House
  • Brother

• Like many entrepreneurs, I started out in sales. I began at 14, when I got a job selling shoes and tennis rackets at a pro shop, and I've been selling one thing or another ever since.

  

  Jason Fried
  • Job
  • Shoes
  • Sales

• 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

• It's a pity that the tennis is really going down the drain. Every year it's getting worse and worse and worse. There has to be a radical change, and I hope it will be really soon.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Hope
  • Change
  • Year

• It's as if women are in a totally rigged race. A lot of men are driving souped-up, low-slung racing cars and we're running as fast as we can in tennis shoes we managed to salvage from a local garage sale.

  

  Naomi Weisstein
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

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