Top 1200 Tennis Player Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

I became an India player in January 2009 and was therefore paid Rs 40 lakhs. However, in my contract, my category continued as a 2008 World Cup Under-19 player and my contract continued at Rs 20 lakh.

I started tennis around age 2.

I almost went with basketball over tennis.

I'm not into the gym. I prefer dancing or tennis.

I think tennis was just in my genes.

I want to play tennis and fornicate.

I'll get married when I'm sick of tennis.

I wasn't any good at playing tennis.

I am a professional squash player, and I recently played badly - but as well as I could - in a professional squash tournament. A professional squash player might sound like someone who is in a food-tasting group, but it is a racquet sport.

I've always been clear - I feel good at Chelsea. Every week, I repeat the same on PSG. It's a big team but an inferior league. I don't want to return to France, because I've won everything over there - the league title, cup, best player, best young player.

Later in high school, I met Hillel Slovak, who was the original guitar player of the Chili Peppers, and we became really close. We had a band, and we didn't like the bass player, so I started playing bass, and I got a bass two weeks later.

All I cared about in tennis was winning.

Every single player matters. Every single player can change the course of the game.

I know as a manager you have to abide by the chairman's decisions. But his decisions were this team, that team, this player, that player. The chairman is a control freak.

As a player, you always want to know what you can do. At the end of your career, you can look back and say, look, I was able to get this much out of my playing career and I was able to become this type of player. I think that's what allows you to sleep well at night.

Life is bigger than tennis.

I'm an old-fashioned player, an old-school player who will foul you and foul you hard.

If you give a bad player time, he can play. If you give a good player time, he can kill you.

Tennis is great, but it doesn't necessarily define me.

Tennis is so competitive. I guess that's the way it has to be.

Nobody seems to appreciate what an incredible player Wilt was," Russell said at 1997 All-Star Game when the league named and honored its 50 greatest players. "He was the best player of all time because he dominated the floor like nobody else ever could. To be that big and that athletic was special.

Tennis is what I've always wanted to do, so it is my dream to be on top.

When I'm relaxed, I play my best tennis.

Tennis is more commercial these days.

I'm the Bjorn Boerg of table tennis.

I like table-tennis and I'm good at it.

It's frustrating at times when you think you've earned a chance to play on the field and you're over there sitting on the bench. That's not the kind of player I am. I'm the kind of player who wants to be out there on the field and needs to contribute every minute of every game.

Tennis, you have to be really fit and stuff.

I played a lot of tennis when I was young.

I can tell you that tennis is a huge motivation for me.

Tennis, at times, I follow, but not much.

Wimbledon just is the epitome of tennis.

I was a good athlete, a good baseball player. A great baseball player, I should say.

I obviously wasn't a normal tennis story.

I play tennis because I like it.

There are not many Irish people playing tennis!

Because I write the music, I write the lyrics, I write the vocal melody lines - I write everything. Just because I let somebody sing something doesn't mean they're more important than the bass player or the keyboard player or the drummer.

I was always geared towards either wanting to finish number one or be number one as far as the best player that I could be, or be the best player at my position in the league. I wanted that to be a constant reminder to my teammates that they looked to their leader who is wearing that number, this is what you should strive for as well.

The advent of so much dribbling has created a different kind of player, and it starts at a very early age. We have so many gifted ball handlers. Everything is pick-and-roll. Unless he's a catch-and-shoot guy, a player is going to put it on the floor and attack. Kevin Durant is a wonderful ball handler.

I feel my spot is somewhere between a bass player and a rhythm guitar player. I play with a pick. I play very aggressively. I always have a distortion pedal in line, and I play less melodies and do more stuff against the guitars that create melodies.

Dirk was obviously a player that I looked up to. In high school I actually wore No. 41 in honor of Dirk. He was the first player where I was like this guy is seven-feet tall and shooting jump shots and shooting threes, this is what I want to be like.

Nobody actually played tennis in my family.

Sancho is a player who has everything. He has fantastic speed, great technique, a good eye for his colleagues, and that key pass. Everything he does, he pulls off at high speed at the right moment. For me, he is a perfect player. The ability he has is instinctive, natural. You cannot teach that brilliance.

My country is taking over in tennis

Tennis players have the ugliest feet.

I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments.

With tennis, no one's going to give it to you. You have to be determined.

I want to be the greatest player who has ever been at my position, the greatest player who has ever played.

I don't think Kobe is the best player. I'm the best player.

Tennis has given me soul.

I'm an Arsenal player, and I want to remain an Arsenal player.

Which player does not want to win? A player who doesn't want to win, it's better not to be with us.

It's tennis. I'm still human. I'm not a robot.

I'm only superstitious on the tennis court.

You can't be a team player today and not a team player tomorrow.

Neymar doesn't need to act - he's an excellent player, and he has everything a high-level player needs. He's one of the top five players in the world; why does he need to act? It doesn't bring him sympathy, and it's not good for him.

I don't think tennis is a glamour game, not at all.

I want to be known as a Christian baseball player and I'm still trying to grow into that. But in the end, I want to be more Christian than baseball player.

I want my tennis to speak for everything.

I've turned down a lot of trades where I might have gotten a better player, but I wasn't totally sure of the chemistry of that new player coming in. Even though he might possess golden ability, his personality and the way he gets along with teammates might be things you just don't want to cope with.