Top 1200 Tennis Player Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

I started playing tennis when I was 4 or 5 years old.

I love tennis, but I just don't like grass.

It's so difficult to find time besides the tennis.

I help design my own tennis clothes.

If I'd wanted to be an individual, I'd have taken up tennis.

Polo is like tennis - you literally have to live it.

I'm making a lot of songs that are tennis-inspired.

Tennis and golf are best played, not watched.

I don't know, scene stealing is something I see as, people look at it, it could be a positive thing, but I really like to think of myself as a team player. It's kind of like one player can make the other teammates better, kind of like Larry Byrd dishing off.

Fundamentally, footballers don't look around a dressing room and think, 'He's a black player... he's Japanese.' They don't think like that. They think, 'He's a good player; he can help. He's not very good.' I'm not trying to defend anyone's actions, but there are going to be isolated incidents because it's an emotive, passionate sport.

There are people who live, breathe and dress tennis.

To meet my goals, I couldn't let up when I was playing tennis.

Tennis obviously isn't as popular as baseball in the States.

Ronaldinho is total class - a very, very great player. He is quick, powerful, and has extraordinary technical qualities. He is a dribbler but is also a player who can make the play for his teammates. He's not really a No.10, a true organizer. He's more a second attacker who can score goals and has the vision to make them.

I think David Johnson is getting better, if that's possible. I think he's a really good player. I think he can do a lot of things. He's big. He's explosive. He can catch the ball out of the backfield. You can line him up out wide. I think he's a very dynamic player.

tennis is a 100-mph chess match.

I don't think the tennis tour is the place to have friends

I don't have time for easy. Tennis is just hard.

I'd swear to God, if I were a piano player or an actor or something and all those dopes thought I was terrific, I'd hate it. I wouldn't even want them to clap for me. People always clap for the wrong things. If I were a piano player, I'd play it in the goddam closet.

Tennis is not really a traditional Olympic sport.

I think college tennis makes you tough.

Who's to say because you're just a basketball player, or you are a basketball player, who's to say you can't chime in on other subjects or other important topics?

I play better tennis because the court is there.

Tennis lets you talk while you're playing.

I hope I was a good example of women's tennis.

I've played too many tennis hours.

All we see is gym, tennis court, and bed.

I don't watch much tennis, never really have.

I play very tough tennis, you know.

I've always thought of myself as the best defensive player in the league, and I want to play like the best defensive player in the league.

Tennis is a big thing in the Czech Republic.

Tennis is my dream. It is what I love. And it is what I want to be best at.

I love tennis. Without it I don't know what I would do.

Tennis is my life, obviously, and it's my career. But it's not the be-all, end-all.

I chose to stay with tennis and they didn't understand that at the school.

The US player Andy Roddick reaches speeds of 220 kilometers per hour when he serves. If I train with him every day, I will later be at an advantage against a player whose service crosses the net at 190 kilometers per hour.

This is how you play tennis without the net

Tennis is definitely a star for women in sports.

If you ask footballers to pick out the player they most admire, so many of them will pick Paul Scholes. His passing and shooting is of the highest level and he’s the most consistent and naturally gifted player we’ve had for a long, long time.

My best tennis will be when I'm 24, 25.

I'm basically a cocktail jazz kind of pianist. I'll be the first to admit that I'm not a very good keyboard player. People think I think I'm good. I think I'm a very poor piano player.

It won't change that I'm an Olympian if you call me a football player, and it won't change that I'm an NFL player if you call me a track and field athlete.

Playing with Michael Jordan would be a great opportunity for me. I would have someone around I could learn a lot from. I look up to him as a player and as a person, and that would make me a better player and person.

I take pleasure in tennis and the hope that it requires.

Tennis just a game, family is forever.

The most trauma I had was on the tennis court.

I play quite a bit of tennis on the side.

India has a very good tradition in tennis.

We were poor [with my mother], and we didn't have too much. So we sat on the floor and we had a record player, and that's all we had in that room in the apartment. But we had whatever we had. Six records and a record player and it seemed like magic. Seven or eight years old, you know.

I was all for basketball, and I made the decision to play tennis.

Milt was one of the men who discovered Bobby Orr. He once said that if a player comes along who is better then Bobby Orr, may the Good Lord let me be alive to see him because he is going to be one hell of a player to watch. Enough said.

I love seeing tennis up close.

I try to play good tennis all the time.

If I didn't play tennis I probably would have to see a psychiatrist.

If we can take young people who excel at the highest levels, put them on the same kind of pedestal as the all-state basketball player and the all-state football player, and begin to get the same kind of recognition, it will have a profound effect, and we are finding that it does.

Tennis runs in cycles. There are victories. There are disappointments.

I don't really like the sport of tennis that much.

My ultimate goal is to be the best player in the world. If I'm the best player in the world, I'll be the face of American golf. It will come with the territory. That's where I want to be. If I want to be there, I have a lot of guys I have to beat out, in the U.S. and the world.

Tennis is a world out of touch with reality

I have a lot of players I like to see. For example, in my first few years, the player I think is the one everyone liked and always will like is Ronaldinho. For me, he is the player with the capacity to take you and put you in front of the TV, and you will stay for hours. For hours!