Tennis Quotes
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I'd love to see all the guys play their best because I think it's better for tennis.
John McEnroe
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I've been asked who I would pay to watch to play tennis, and Roger would be one of the few.
Martina Navratilova
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A lot is yet to be enjoyed. I'd like to stomp grapes for wine. Go to Antarctica. Have dinner with Venus Williams who is the greatest tennis player ever.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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I have this terrible dark side to my personality, which playing tennis keeps at bay
Monica Seles
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To me, anyone with an Australian accent wielding a tennis racket is cool.
Adrian Smith Iron Maiden
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Never steal anything so small that you'll have to go to an unpleasant city jail for it instead of a minimum-security federal tennis prison.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I am very athletic and like to play tennis, run, hike, and work out with my trainer. I also enjoy traveling, and given that it's a part of my job, I get to do it a lot.
Dylan Lauren
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In Argentina at various tournaments, it's great. Every day it's full, everybody's crazy about tennis, everybody wants to play tennis.
Gabriela Sabatini
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I was glad to watch the soccer because it helps my tennis game, realize maybe they're just rooting for the underdog.
Serena Williams
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I love tennis! I've always felt like this because it is such a classy sport with a great, competitive flair to it.
Roger Federer
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The kids know what I'm doing when I exercise, and that's powerful. So don't just tell your kids to go play outside. Take a moment off your computer, put on your tennis shoes, hop outside and help them start their game and run off some energy.
Summer Sanders
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I'd accomplished everything I had set out to do - winning the French and Australian Opens, the Olympic gold medal and the Davis Cup. So I said to myself: 'Why don't you try another year and see if you can enjoy your tennis like you did once?' And I've been doing it.
Yevgeny Kafelnikov
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There's no doubt there are issues with clay. Our issues have issues that are issues right now. That's not a secret.
Andy Roddick
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I play golf, but sometimes it's so un-relaxing, I have to play tennis to wind down. Now that I think about it, this process is sort of like when I go out for sushi and have to get a slice of pizza afterward.
Adam Ross
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When I started to play, all the coaches said it didn't make sense for me to try to play tennis because I was too small. They said I would never make it. But this was something that motivated me. I really wanted to make it.
Dominika Cibulkova
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I just wanted to play tennis. It wasn't a job. It was an ambition. I knew I could make money at it. I was 18 - old enough to think I could do it, young enough not to consider the consequences.
Martina Navratilova
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Before I got addicted to comedy, I was seriously thinking about playing tennis full time. I joined the tennis team and played with a lot of professionals.
Carrot Top
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In tennis, you can make a couple of mistakes and still win. Not in golf. I played three rounds in that Tahoe event, and I was drained. Mentally, not physically.
Pete Sampras
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I did everything in high school - I played tennis, I played basketball, I was in chorus, I was in the band, I even did the mascot senior year... I went to the football games, and at half-time I went across the field, met all the cheerleaders and got their numbers! The same year, I won prom king!
Elijah Kelley
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All my time in rehab has made me appreciate tennis more than ever.
Kim Clijsters
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With everything else that would swirl around me when I got involved in it, tennis was my main concern.
Jimmy Connors
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I think the reason my relationship works so well with my dad is that we can separate our tennis lives from our personal lives.
Alexander Zverev
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Ivan Lendl is a robot, a solitary, mechanical man who lives with his dogs behind towering walls at his estate in Connecticut. A man who so badly wants to have a more human image that he's having surgery to remove the bolts from his neck.
Tony Kornheiser
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Women's tennis has been all over the place the last few years and when you throw in injuries, it's taken on even more of a wild-card dimension.
Pam Shriver