Tennis Quotes
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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.
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I have always been very dedicated to tennis, and it's true that I made some compromises in my life. For example, I never went out to parties when I was younger, and I spent less time with friends.
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Since a month, two months ago, you know, I've started hitting the ball well. I'm playing some really good tennis. That really helps. I sort of have to motivate myself to get pumped up. It really helps my game a lot.
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I let my racket do the talking. That's what I am all about, really. I just go out and win tennis matches.
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My game is a lot about footwork. If I move well, I play well.
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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.
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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.
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I started in a very small tennis club in a South American country where I never thought about becoming the best tennis player.
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I love jeans, T-shirts, boots, and tennis shoes.
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Women are everywhere. We're letting them play golf and tennis now. It's out of control.
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I Pray That A Tennis Player Should Emerge From Ranchi As MS Dhoni Emerged For Cricket
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I don't want to live and die with every point that's being played out there now. I'm going to let my coach live and die with every point.
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This trophy is so special in the world of tennis and it feels great.
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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.
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Nick Kyrgios, if you don't want to be a professional tennis player, do something else.
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Playing tennis, I didn't tie in my self-worth into winning or losing matches.
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My grandmother was whip smart as well as an incredible athlete. She played tennis in her sari, cheered on the Indian team in cricket matches, and tried to convince us that her made-up words were real so she could win a Scrabble game.
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I have found - and tennis may be the greatest manifestation of it - Americans have become more international in taste. Remember the old axiom that you have to have American players for Americans to be interested? And in tennis, it's just not true anymore.
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I did a really good job of sticking to the tennis court.
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There were times when I asked myself whether I was being principled or simply a coward.... I was wrapped in the cocoon of tennis early in life, mainly by blacks like my most powerful mentor, Dr. Robert Walter Johnson of Lynchburg, Virginia. They insisted that I be unfailingly polite on the court, unfalteringly calm and detached, so that whites could never accuse me of meanness. I learned well. I look at photographs of the skinny, frail, little black boy that I was in the early 1950s, and I see that I was my tennis racquet and my tennis racquet was me. It was my rod and my staff.
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Back in East St. Louis, tennis wasn't the real thing. If you weren't playing baseball, basketball, football, you were kind of on the outside.
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Team sports, there's always some kind of sacrifice happening... A team, if we lose, if Michael Jordan has a bad night, you hang it on him a little bit... but if you lose as a tennis player, you have no one to blame but yourself, and that's a different beast.
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While I'm more of a soccer and tennis fan myself, I still enjoying catching some football games when I get the chance.
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With all the injury problems we have in men's tennis at the moment, I'm happy to still be standing.
