Top 1200 Tennis Player Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

I think I'm bad luck for Tiger because he missed the cut in Charlotte with me. But yeah, those are two of the best players of all time. Tiger's the best player of all time in my opinion, so when he's not in the field, it's a relief because he's such a great player.

A lot of people just assume men's tennis is better.

I'm convinced being a tennis analyst is the easiest job in the world.

You can spend $200 or $50 for tennis shoes - it's about what you can afford.

When I started to play tennis my mum told me to enjoy.

I'd love to open a tennis school for children in my hometown of Sochi.

I rarely wear tennis shoes. I'm 5' 8', I hate being short.

You can be pretty selfish as tennis players, being an individual sport.

I was certainly no Maradona. I was a very fast player. When I saw a space, I used it. When I went past somebody, he didn't catch up with me again. I was a player who came with a run-up. What Maradona could see in a small space, I saw over long distances.

I like the fans, but I don't feel an obligation that I have to be an example to them, like say maybe a baseball player would, or a football player or maybe some other type of musicians. I don't feel I have to really set an example that somebody else has to live up to.

I feel like I'm an okay piano player. To the music world, to people that's in the hip-hop culture, they probably look at me like, 'Zaytoven the greatest piano player in the world.' I'm okay.

Power is not tennis to me. I'd rather lose playing my game.

Playing is much, much harder than composing in my opinion, becoming a player. If you want to be a player for all your life either you decide not to do it professionally and just enjoy it and just do it every weekend, but if you want to be a professional musician- hardest thing I could imagine and I really wasn't capable of doing it.

Boxing, mixed martial arts and tennis are the hardest sports to train for.

All the Asian people respect me and watch me. But I don't want people to think of me as an Asian player. I am just a football player.

In tennis, it's usually you by yourself, so getting to be part of a team is really special.

There wasn't any particular player I modeled my game after. I tried to learn from everyone and create my own style. I studied past players... Truth be told I never had a favorite player. It's just not my nature to go around idolizing people. I just go try to learn.

One of the biggest misconceptions is that players care about transfer fees. For a player, they do not care at all. They do not care if they move clubs for one million, 10 million, or 100 million Euros. That is just something a player leaves to his agent and the clubs.

The thing I learned from playing tennis is that I know what competition is. I can handle rejection.

The only thing I want is tennis to be the biggest sport on the planet.

Business is like tennis. Those who serve well win.

What these guys are doing is great for Argentinean tennis. This is motivating other people.

Tennis has given me this wonderful life and I'm very grateful for it.

I'm ambidextrous when I eat. But playing tennis right-handed - I can't do it. I'm clueless.

I followed tennis a little. I liked Lendl, Edberg, and Rafter.

Tennis has to become everything to you if you're going to make it to the top. You have to live it.

I began playing in the Pacific Coast Indoor Tennis Championships.

Tennis is a very objective sport in the sense that the scoreboard doesn't lie.

I just want to play tennis in front of the big crowds.

I had to focus on my music career. But tennis has always been a passion.

When you enter the gates of the All England Club, you can feel the history of tennis.

I used to play a lot of racket sports, tennis and squash.

Yeah, Jody [Porter] left. He's a great guitar player. We have a guy named Phil Hurley who is going to go out on tour with us now. I'm not sure if he'll end up as the permanent guitar player, but he's the type of guy who can kind of step in and play anything. He was with the Gigolo Ants before, and he's really good.

The general public don't like boxers. They prefer tennis players.

Acting is a bit like tennis in that you can't really do it on your own.

I'm actually pretty good at tennis. Well, if I'm in the Special Olympics or something.

I don't really have a favorite bass player. I listen to a lot of bluegrass. But then again, I'm not a typical bluegrass bass player. I was really into the Grateful Dead, and I still am - I don't listen to them too much, but for me they are a big influence.

I've been a good player my whole life and expect to continue to work hard and continue to do everything that I have done and try not to take any steps back. Try to stay the course and be the best player and the best teammate and hopefully the best leader I can be, and play as well as I can.

When Ozzie Virgil became the first Dominican player in the majors, his nationality was barely noticed. What the press and fans talked about was his skin color. He was the first black player on the Detroit Tigers, and a great deal of attention was paid to him as someone who crossed the color line.

I never wanted all this hoopla. All I wanted was to be a good ball player and hit twenty-five or thirty homers, drive in a hundred runs, hit .280 and help my club win pennants. I just wanted to be one of the guys, an average player having a good season.

I hope that I have accomplished just one thing: that I have been a credit to tennis and my country.

I never thought tennis was going to give me so much satisfaction.

Tennis is an individual sport, and I am quite a self-conscious person.

Tennis is one of those sports: whatever you put in, you get out.

It's always been a dream of mine to play professional tennis.

It's true I always try to be as seductive as possible but I wouldn't be here if I couldn't play tennis.

Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.

A guitar player goes on the road, and he misses his girlfriend for a while, but he manages to get along. A horn player gets out on the road, plays two or three towns, and then he'll get lonely, and next thing you know, he's packed up and left. It's better not to hire him in the first place.

I came to New York City as a player, so my objective is to take the team as high as possible, preferably to victory. If that helps Major League Soccer grow, then that's welcome, too, but I was signed as a New York City FC player and to do what's best for the team.

I killed a squirrel once with a car. Twice with a tennis racket.

I didn't start off as a bass player, and Guns was the first band I really, like, 'Oh, I'm gonna be a bass player. This is what I'm gonna do.' And I really dove into it head first.

I wouldn't be anywhere close to where I am today without my pops. I think a lot of a football player's makeup is mental, and I've been blessed to have someone to learn from. Not just from a technical standpoint, but everything he taught me about being a hard worker, a teammate and just being a football player.

Now I do bowling, golf, and tennis. I want to be a good bowler.

Tennis was a big part of my life from as far back as I can remember.

When a player keeps a calm demeanor on the court, it's easier for his ability to shine. The best response to an opposing player's physical or psychological tactics is to keep cool and come right back at him with the force of your game, not your fists. Revenge is always sweeter if your team wins the game.

But I still have to practice hard if I'm going to play my best tennis.

That's the biggest struggle in Norway. Most of the money doesn't go to tennis.

I experienced the G League in two forms: one as an assignment player, and then one of actually being in the G League after I got cut by the Bulls. Obviously, both situations are different. You actually sort of still get treated like an NBA player when you're on assignment. When you're in G League on contract, you're down there for real.

When you're watching college tennis and you're in that close match, there's nothing better.

Paul Scholes has been the best England midfield player for 30-odd years. You'd probably have to go back to Bobby Charlton to find someone who could do as much as Scholes. When the ball arrives at his feet he could tell you where every player on that pitch is at that moment. His awareness is superb.