Tennis Quotes
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I grew up surrounded by tennis, so I was obviously more interested in it than football - particularly as it's the most popular sport.
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Tennis has to become everything to you if you're going to make it to the top. You have to live it.
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I'm really trying to focus myself on playing tennis, and I think that's really important.
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You should change your tennis depending on the surface. For me, the most difficult thing on grass is how to move, like sliding to get a ball.
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The only other thing that's like video games for me is watching tennis on TV. I can have it on, and there's a rhythmic quality to it - I can be watching Wimbledon or the U.S. Open and still be working.
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I would be really excellent in a horror film because I have a great scream. I'd be really good in a comedy too. I'm top, top, top quality.
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I have finally mastered what to do with the second tennis ball. Having small hands, I was becoming terribly self-conscious about keeping it in a can in the car while I served the first one. I noted some women tucked the second ball just inside the elastic leg of their tennis panties. I tried, but found the space already occupied by a leg. Now, I simply drop the second ball down my cleavage, giving me a chest that often stuns my opponent throughout an entire set.
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Stress is part of your career. You have to accept it and deal with it because there is a lot of emotion in tennis.
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I certainly had a lot of fun during my career playing tennis, doing the thing I wanted to do and to do it well.
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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.
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I will need to keep things simple and take my mind off tennis, i will probably play video games.
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I talked with Tom Hanks. I saw that movie 'Turner and Hooch' at least 50 times. It took all my guts to go up to him. I went up to him, I was like, 'Can I have a picture?' We talked acting; he wanted to know what I was doing. We talked a little tennis. I mean, he knew all about myself and my sister.
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Tennis is a big puzzle. It's not any more physical or mental; you have to have all the pieces first, and then you have to put all the pieces together. For me, it took me time.
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Why I love chess and tennis - the volleying aspect, and the fact that your competitors' reactions and motivations and bluffs come into the game itself.
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I'm as patient a father as I am on the tennis court. It takes a lot for me to get really upset, but sometimes kids can get you really cross if they really keep bugging you.
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The crowds are very important for tennis. It makes you play better, but it can also make you nervous and that's the beauty of it.
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I feel like I don't have to win anymore. I've had a wonderful career. Tennis has given me so much, things I would have never expected in my life. I feel honored to even be a part of such a wonderful sport.
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I used to cut guitars out of a piece of cardboard to copy the Strat look. I used a backwards tennis racket for a while and graduated to the cardboard cutout.
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Tennis, for me, every time I went out on the court, it just gave me such joy to play.
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The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I'll never be as good as a wall.
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I was just feeling really down and didn't want to play tennis anymore and when I was feeling down like that, what helped me is that I went back to my culture. To walk the Earth.
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I was aware of how incredible the match was. Unfortunately there had to be a winner. From my point of view many left feeling sorry for me instead of being happy for Rafa. Which hurts.
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For the first couple of years I played really bad tennis. It was so bad that they booed me off the court
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What happened to equal opportunity? Not just in tennis, but everything. It's something that Billie Jean King fought for and she played Bobby Riggs for that, and beat him.
