Tennis Quotes
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Is that the longest fifth set ever? It was? So, no, I've never played one longer than that!
Andy Roddick
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Tennis is a hard sport. There is a lot of competition all year and you play alone.
Rafael Nadal
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The tennis ball doesn't know how old I am. The ball doesn't know if I'm a man or a woman or if I come from a communist country or not. Sport has always broken down these barriers.
Martina Navratilova
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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
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Roger Federer and my boyfriend, Tiger Woods, inspire me. It's incredible what they've done in their respective sports, especially Roger. He is the nicest and humblest guy. You would never know that he's the best tennis player of all time. And Tiger is so mentally tough. He can block everything completely out and stay in the moment.
Lindsey Vonn
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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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There are a lot of pretty girls. I am a tennis player first of all, that is why I am here, and if wasn't producing results no one would notice me.
Anna Kournikova
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The answer to this riddle has a hole in the middle, And some have been known to fall in it. In tennis it's nothing, but it can be received, And sometimes a person may win it. Though not seen or heard it may be perceived, Like princes or bees it's in clover. The answer to this riddle has a hole in the middle, And without it one cannot start over.
Trenton Lee Stewart
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I've been athletic since I was a kid. My parents got me playing tennis when I was seven years old and I started to play competitively.
Lisa Rinna
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I grew up in an age where women's tennis did not have similar prizes to men, and they played in complete obscurity, really, compared to the men's game.
David Stern
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One Oxford poet confessed to me that I had been scary because I talked American and wore tennis shoes.
Donald Hall
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Gender is irrelevant. Certainly the tennis ball doesn't know what the gender was of the tennis coach.
Martina Navratilova
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I think that tennis is a lady's sport, so we should look out there like ladies.
Anna Kournikova
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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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Golfers are forever working on mechanics. My tennis swing hasn't changed in 10 years.
Pete Sampras
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My family are tennis coaches, and they always brought me to the tennis club. I basically had no other option than to start playing tennis.
Dominic Thiem
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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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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
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I love jeans, T-shirts, boots, and tennis shoes.
Ashley Benson
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I have fond memories of my kabaddi exploits at Lawrence School. I also enjoyed tennis and swimming.
Anand Mahindra
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Women are everywhere. We're letting them play golf and tennis now. It's out of control.
Brian Kilmeade
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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
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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
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As a kid, I wanted to be a pro tennis player. I was pretty good; at the tennis academies I attended, I always 'played up' against older age groups.
Matt Kuchar