Tennis Quotes
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Gender is irrelevant. Certainly the tennis ball doesn't know what the gender was of the tennis coach.
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It's one thing if you live in London and you're rooting for Chelsea or you're in New York and you love the Giants or Jets and no matter who's on the team you're into it. It's different in tennis; you're sort of your own guy, so you have to reach out and grab a person in a different way.
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I don't think I'm one of those guys who won't pick up a racket for three years...I love hitting tennis balls.
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Tennis was never work for me, tennis was fun. And the tougher the battle and the longer the match, the more fun I had.
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Tennis has given me so many opportunities, and I feel very lucky to have achieved whatever I have, especially coming from a country that does not have a great history in the game.
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And it was where I learned how to play tennis and eventually became captain of the tennis team at the school and was on the Junior Davis Cup in New York City.
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Playing tennis, I didn't tie in my self-worth into winning or losing matches.
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It's silly to say it about a tennis player, but I'm an unbelievable hero in Germany. And Germany needs heroes more than any place.
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When I came to Spain, I joined a tennis academy, and that was where I learnt the game.
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You have to keep writing. It's almost like practice, almost like tennis, that actually after a few days of not writing, first of all it makes you slightly depressed and uneasy, but it also affects the style when you start up again. You need to get the show on the road.
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It is hard to compete with other sports. Badminton is a sport which, when compared with football and tennis, still needs promotion.
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Billie and I did wonders for women's tennis. They owe me a piece of their checks.
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That's what I love about tennis: As an individual sport, you can't hide behind teammates.
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One of the greatest joys of tennis is having a nice volley and not really keeping score, not really looking at the lines, but just catching up with each other.
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My mom, she's from Ireland, coached tennis in Nigeria when she was a missionary and turned me on to it when I was young.
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Maybe I could survive in one of those resort prisons where they house white-collar criminals. I've always wanted to get better at tennis.
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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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I am very blessed to be able to play tennis, the sport that I love and very grateful for the opportunities to play in the finals of big events, when the season starts you are on the roll constantly and obliged to be committed to daily routines on and off the court.
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I couldn't be accepted into tennis school because I was too young. I had to wait a year until I was four before they'd accept me.
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I've never seen a good tennis movie. They all were terrible.
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Our view is that the very best data miners or statisticians can earn as much as the very best golfers or tennis players.
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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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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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Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
