Tennis Quotes
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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.
Serena Williams
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When Kelly was born, I thought seriously about retirement. But I wanted to see if it was possible to mix being a mother with tennis and the two combined very well.
Evonne Goolagong Cawley
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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.
Evonne Goolagong Cawley
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I enjoyed the position I was in as a tennis player. I was to blame when I lost. I was to blame when I won. And I really like that, because I played soccer a lot too, and I couldn't stand it when I had to blame it on the goalkeeper.
Roger Federer
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There was something so cool about being able to carry this film Into the Forest together with Ellen Page and to play off of each other. It was like having the most worthy tennis opponent.
Evan Rachel Wood
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Tennis, for me, every time I went out on the court, it just gave me such joy to play.
Evonne Goolagong Cawley
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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.
Christopher Bollen
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I don't mind fans coming up in a friendly, respectful way. That's all part of the fun of being a top tennis player. But if people take pictures without permission, particularly if my children are in the shot, I feel uncomfortable.
Roger Federer
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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.
Richard Lewis Springthorpe
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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
Richard Krajicek
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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.
Evonne Goolagong Cawley
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My dad said if you become a tennis professional just make sure you get into the top hundred, because you have to make a little bit of money. You make a living so you can pay your coaching and, you know, your travels.
Roger Federer
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All we see is gym, tennis court, and bed.
Ana Ivanovic
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I think tennis is going towards the direction of powerful, hard hitters, and that's what us tall people are. We are trying to play very aggressive; we're trying to make a lot of winners, and, I mean, I don't know. That's what tall players kind of do.
Alexander Zverev
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You don't just have to be skilled and talented at tennis, but you have to be so physically strong.
Heather Watson
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Let no one say that I have said nothing new... the arrangement of the subject is new. When we play tennis, we both play with the same ball, but one of us places it better.
Blaise Pascal
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A lot of people now think Im a shoe. They dont even know I was a tennis player. The shoe has really taken on a life of its own, way beyond me.
Stan Smith
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Too many people asking too many questions in tennis. Golf is better.
Ivan Lendl
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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.
Serena Williams
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There are people who live, breathe and dress tennis.
Serena Williams
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Politicians who wear little tennis socks with the balls at the back should not be taken seriously.
Mo Rocca
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Naturally I've known girlies form an attachment to the younger male before now, but in the tennis score of the bedroom most girls in my experience would rather Love Thirty or Love Forty than Love Fifteen. Men, of course, are a whole other issue; they start at Love All and stay there until they're dragged from the court
Stephen Fry
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Honestly, I could get in a car accident today and never play tennis again, and then I wouldn't have anything to fall back on. But fortunately enough, I do.
Serena Williams
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I have tennis shoes with little rhinestones that I slip on if I exercise. But I always wear heels, even around the house. I'm such a short little thing, I can't reach my kitchen cabinets.
Dolly Parton