Tennis Quotes
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I've been very focused on my career outside of tennis.
Venus Williams
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I think no matter what you do you go through stages when you play. There was a number of times when I didn't do very well or was tired. It was too much to combine school and tennis altogether. Parents need to step in and say, take a little time off, do something fun.
Jana Novotna
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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
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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
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Like many men who play tennis, when I hit a ball into the net, I tend to look daggers at my racket, reproaching it for playing so badly when I myself have been trying so hard.
Craig Brown
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I don't play tennis at all.
Brooklyn Decker
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I dance a lot and I run and do yoga and play field hockey and tennis. I like to be active. I don't always have time for that stuff, but I do always feel better afterward.
Emma Watson
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The idea of doing a tennis movie is truly unbelievable to me. Well, first of all, they don't really exist.
David Walton
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The first rounds of a tournament are always tricky because playing tennis takes a lot out of you.
Venus Williams
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It wasn't my tennis that made me lose, it was a lot of different things going on, high drama, high emotion.
Jennifer Capriati
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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
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Anybody who can dial a telephone can master tennis scoring in about 15 minutes.
Bradley Whitford
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My mother wanted very much to play tennis; she wanted, most of all, to be a singer and play the piano.
John C. Hawkes
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I love an actor who comes in, ready to work. It's like a good tennis player. They hit the ball where you don't expect it, and it's great.
Martin Landau
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My favorite tennis player, who I'm amazed by, is Roger Federer.
Doug Davidson
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I don't really know why I started playing as a kid, but I grew up in Queens, New York, not too far from Forest Hills, where they played the U.S. Open in those days. I even got to be a ball boy there. Also, there was a tennis court just a block away from our house, and I'd hang out down there.
John McEnroe
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I love seeing tennis up close.
Jim Parsons
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Tennis was always there for me, which was lucky. I would go play baseball, basketball, football, hang with my brother, do whatever, and at the end of the day I'd come back and say, 'Hey, Mom, would you hit 15 minutes worth of balls with me?'
Jimmy Connors
