Top 1200 Tennis Player Quotes & Sayings

Masculinity comes from your look, all the way down to your attitude. It's a big part of being a tennis player. Even though tennis is a fairly friendly sport, intimidation is still a big part of it.

For me the most important thing has always been tennis, and that's what I want to get across the image I want to portray is a hard-working tennis player.

As a kid, I wanted to be a pro tennis player. I was pretty good; at the tennis academies I attended, I always played up against older age groups.

In Hollywood people lie to each other and cheat each other and then go and play tennis. But I don't want to be a tennis player.

I knew I was the second-best tennis player in the state of Florida and No. 8 in the United States of America when I was 12 years old and I couldn't tell you what I was in baseball, but I liked my chances in tennis of getting a scholarship to college.

I am happy with being a tennis player and the choice I took when I was 12. But clearly, if I wouldnt have been a tennis player, I would have loved to be a soccer player. But again, I am happy with the choice I made.

I think my family needs me more than anybody else, and tennis doesn't need me anymore. I respect my wife a lot for taking all that in. She said, 'I didn't marry a tennis player; you'd retired.' Now it's time to do something else.

I started in a very small tennis club in a South American country where I never thought about becoming the best tennis player.

My family are tennis coaches, and they always brought me to the tennis club. I basically had no other option than to start playing tennis.

I'm a decent tennis player. Good backhand.

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action. It is as if a tennis player before returning a ball stopped to think about his views of the physical and mental advantages of tennis. You must act as you breathe.

I can be a tennis player, a golf player, and even a soccer player.

I am an avid tennis player.

There's a lot of ingredients go into being a good tennis player.

When his football and baseball careers ended, my dad became an accomplished marbles player. Then dad got really good at pitching horseshoes. And to show you how athletic our bloodlines really were, my mom was a wonderful tennis player.

I'm a softball player. I'm a soccer player. I played tennis every day. I love being outside.

All my life I'd woken up to tennis, tennis, tennis. Even if I don't go to practise, I'm thinking about it all day.

I was a tennis player in high school and college.

In these days of modern tennis a player is as strong as his weakest stroke.

My dad was a professional basketball player, and my mom was a hell of a tennis player.

As tennis players, we work and we sacrifice many things. To lose, that's not a happy thing - I mean sure, I was disappointed. You have to come back strong. But to win the last point in a grand slam tournament, that's the most beautiful and most satisfying feeling you can get as a tennis player. It's worth it.

As a child, I wanted to be an athlete, a professional tennis player or something like that.

Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player.

Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.

I am the best tennis player who cannot play tennis.

I might have been too tiny for it, but I wanted to become a professional tennis player. I was a pretty good tennis player as a kid, but ultimately I just don't think that I have that jock mentality needed for sports.

Sometimes it's harder to play good tennis with a bad tennis player - the same way it's hard to be a good actor with a bad actor. It's just an unpleasant experience.

I want to be remembered as a great player, but I guess it will be as a player who got angry on a tennis court.

My mother said I would have more chances to become a tennis player than a football player.

Because I was a tennis player, Billie Jean King was a hero of mine.

My mom was a great tennis player, and I remember being six or seven years old watching Steffi Graf and Monica Seles in Wimbledon in my house. I've always been a tennis fan.

I played tennis. My older brother, Joseph, was a cello player, and I played the cello, but he was better than me at the cello, and he was also a better tennis player than me, so I was always like, 'I wish there was something that only I did!'

I'm actually a pretty good tennis player!

I'd much rather people knew me as a good tennis player than as an aboriginal who happens to play good tennis. Of course I'm proud of my race, but I don't want to be thinking about it all the time.

If you look at tennis, the girls have become much more attractive; they wear makeup. In my generation, you were a tennis player. It wasn't like you had to look a certain way.

I'll prove that I'm going to be the best tennis player, one day, to play this game.

I was in a movie for five minutes where I play tennis and I was given five tennis lessons for free. I never had a tennis lesson. I was like, that's awesome! When else would I have taken up tennis?

I am a hero worshiper. I love the number one tennis player. I love the number one baseball player. I want to see those records broken.

I always just thought of myself as a tennis player.

If I weren't a tennis player, I'd probably be a psychologist.

Nick Kyrgios, if you don't want to be a professional tennis player, do something else.

Ask any comedian, tennis player, chef. Timing is everything.

Dating a tennis player is risky - love means nothing to us.

I am happy with being a tennis player and the choice I took when I was 12. But clearly, if I wouldn't have been a tennis player, I would have loved to be a soccer player. But again, I am happy with the choice I made.

If they had rankings in baseball, maybe I would have been able to do the math and figure out my chances of being a professional baseball player versus a tennis player. But that was the decision-maker for me, I just thought I was better in tennis.

People in tennis, they've been in a certain bubble for so long they don't even know who they are, because obviously it's just been tennis, tennis, tennis. And let it be just tennis, tennis, tennis. Be locked into that. But when tennis is done, then what? It's kinda like: Let's enjoy being great at the sport.

If I was the type of person who had tennis, tennis, tennis all the time and I went to bed and ended up dreaming about tennis, I would go nuts.

When I was growing up, I wanted to be a tennis player.

Any quality player can adjust well to the different demands. It is like a good tennis player who is expected to adjust to the clay at the French Open, the grass at Wimbledon, the hard courts of the U.S. and the heat of the Australian Open. A professional is expected to do all that.

It makes you also realize, 'OK, I'm excited to play tennis, and I work really hard to be the best tennis player I think I can be,' but I don't waste my time on stupid stuff, you know what I mean.

I know my serve stinks, but I was a pretty good tennis player.

I actually wanted to be a tennis player.

I like playing tennis. I've always enjoyed the process of being a tennis player; I'm just not sure that I enjoyed the travel at the end, and my body didn't recover from the day-to-day grind.

I'm very proud to be a professional tennis player. I'm really happy to be doing something that I love. With this comes responsibility, and I am honored when I am told that I have inspired someone to play tennis.

To be a professional tennis player you need to put in these sort of hours.

The most challenging thing is people do see me as a tennis player, but I've had a lot of opportunities because I am a tennis player. And I don't mind that.

As a kid, I wanted to be a pro tennis player. I was pretty good; at the tennis academies I attended, I always 'played up' against older age groups.

As a tennis player, normally you lose almost every week.

I really feel like I'm improving every day, not just as a tennis player but as a person and really becoming more mature in this big sport of tennis.

My favorite tennis player, who I'm amazed by, is Roger Federer.