Tennis Quotes

• When you start playing tennis, you don't imagine there's a whole bureaucracy behind the tournaments and all of that. You just think about winning the cups.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Think
  • Winning
  • Start

• There were so many people who were instrumental in helping me get better. They say it takes a village, and the tennis community has been my village. That's why I've always felt that I have a responsibility to give back.

  

  Katrina Adams
  • People
  • Why
  • Community

• Tennis has had a very positive impact on my life.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Life
  • Positive
  • Impact

• Andre Agassi, in his account of becoming an embittered prodigy, seems never to have liked tennis much, except as a vehicle for achievement. The kids who do like life inside the lines can find the flow within that green-and-white geometry.

  

  Adam Gopnik
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Green

• Because I've had time off, I've learned to appreciate tennis more - to put something back into it.

  

  Evonne Goolagong Cawley
  • Tennis
  • Learned
  • Appreciate

• I don't have too much spare time, but I try to play games as much as possible. I played a little growing up, but I never played any tennis games before.

  

  Lleyton Hewitt
  • Up
  • Time
  • Growing

• The content and thematic materials of dance is, of itself, like boxing. You play tennis and baseball. But boxing is not a sport you play: you stand up and do it.

  

  Twyla Tharp
  • Up
  • Dance
  • Baseball

• I do weights and work out different body parts on different days. I don't do cardio - I did too much in my tennis-playing days!

  

  Luke Mitchell
  • Work
  • Different
  • Tennis

• Family's first, and that's what matters most. We realize that our love goes deeper than the tennis game.

  

  Serena Williams
  • Family
  • Tennis
  • Realizing

• It is hard because I have played since I was three years old, and everything is tennis, tennis. I am super-passionate about it. And I love it. But I always like to cook, I listen to music. I just try to be like a regular girl.

  

  Garbine Muguruza
  • Music
  • Girl
  • Tennis

• While in high school, I worked part time at Subway, then at the front desk of the local YMCA, then at a tennis club, until I landed an unpaid internship at 'The Mountain View Voice,' my hometown newspaper.

  

  Jose Antonio Vargas
  • Time
  • School
  • High

• It is never too late to get into tennis! While I started playing at the age of 8 when my parents gave me a tennis racquet for Christmas, tennis is a lifelong sport that can be enjoyed by people of almost any age. It's also something you never forget once you learn.

  

  Samantha Stosur
  • People
  • Age
  • Parents

• First of all, let me say, 1:15 in the morning, for 20,000 people to still be here, I wasn't the winner, tennis was. That's awesome. I don't know if I've ever felt so good here before.

  

  Andre Agassi
  • People
  • Good
  • Morning

• It is just a crazy life as a sportsman. My daughter, Sam, wants to go into tennis, and I tell her, 'No, you don't want to go into professional sport.'

  

  Ernie Els
  • Life
  • Sport
  • Sportsman

• I'm very, very focused on my children. In fact, I'm very religious about having breakfast with them every morning, having dinner with them every evening, and spend all the weekends with them that I don't work. So as long as I'm not traveling, I'm always with them and I go to their soccer and tennis matches.

  

  Zhang Xin
  • Work
  • Long
  • Children

• We have a lot of great lesbian role models in tennis. I mean, Martina Navratilova in her heyday was probably the greatest female athlete on the planet. Martina just kept breaking every rule. That's a great role model.

  

  David Furnish
  • Great
  • Model
  • Athlete

• I started when I was 8 years old, which is obviously nowadays pretty late, but I guess in my generation it was all right. I had plenty of other interests and I didn't do only tennis.

  

  Jana Novotna
  • Pretty
  • Tennis

• It's more a tennis problem than a mental problem. The transition is difficult. It depends how much time you have. Playing on grass can sometimes be a bit of a lottery.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Time
  • Problem
  • Lottery

• I'm a big sports guy - golf, tennis, baseball, basketball, snowboarding - and I love games.

  

  Jason Dohring
  • Guy
  • Sports
  • Baseball

• I think it was the right time for me to retire because nowadays tennis is too incredibly fast and you can say that my style tennis went out of fashion.

  

  Jana Novotna
  • Time
  • Fashion
  • Style

• I don't play golf or tennis, I don't ski, I don't snowboard. If you love what you do, you never get enough of it.

  

  Frankie Valli Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons
  • Golf
  • Tennis

• To be a tennis champion, you have to be inflexible. You have to be stubborn. You have to be arrogant. You have to be selfish and self-absorbed. Kind of tunnel vision almost.

  

  Chris Evert
  • Vision
  • Champion
  • Selfish

• I don't want to talk about apartheid... I'm going to South Africa to play tennis and to see the country. That's as far as it goes.

  

  Evonne Goolagong Cawley
  • Play
  • Tennis
  • South Africa

• I walk my dogs. I garden a little. I play a bit of tennis. Basically when I have spare time I'm making music.

  

  Bill Mumy
  • Time
  • Music
  • Garden

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