Top 1200 Tennis Player Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I was political by coming out of the womb. I was gay, and I wanted to play tennis.

When I was younger, I was a robot. Wind her up and she plays tennis.

There's things in the life that should be more important than just tennis.

You can equate acting to a tennis game: When you're playing one of the best, you get better.

I do tennis ball drills mostly for bouncers, for my muscle memory as well.

Tennis has been a part of my life since I was five years old.

That's what I love about tennis: As an individual sport, you can't hide behind teammates.

I have always believed that my job is to try and give my best on the tennis courts.

I've realised I've hit enough tennis balls to last me a lifetime.

I'll come in from playing tennis in the morning and eat leftover grilled chicken.

Playing tennis, I didn't tie in my self-worth into winning or losing matches.

Women's tennis is very open. You really never know who going to be there.

I guess tennis is my main art, but fashion is definitely very close.

Tennis is a hard sport. There is a lot of competition all year and you play alone.

I'm just glad Open tennis is here. It's great for the game. That's more important.

I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.

My parents both played tennis in South Africa. I learned from them.

It's really football, tennis, and golf that I watch other than hockey.

It takes a tremendous amount of skill to be a football player. And some of these guys have enough skills to do other sports. Soccer could be one. Basketball could be another. Things where you need incredible hand-eye coordination are always options. I think a football player would be able to adapt to a lot of sports.

People outside of tennis, all the famous actors and everyone, knows Wimbledon.

Tennis is a funny game; unbelievable highs and the lows are just as low.

I had the good luck to have the experience of training with fantastic football players like Cristiano Ronaldo, Ozil, Modric, and I also played for Real Madrid B. That was a fantastic experience because it was my first international experience as a football player and taught me a lot as a football player.

I hope wholeheartedly that badminton will be as popular and respected as tennis one day.

I guess the attention paid to appearance is something that belongs to tennis too.

Tennis needs some different personalities and a lot more emotions.

Smart girls know how to play tennis, piano, and dumb.

We must have options to make tennis more attractive emotions-wise.

Since I was like eight, I always wanted to be playing pro tennis.

I always felt tennis and winning was a byproduct of doing everything right.

The success I had as a player, or the career I had as a player, is often based on the guys you play beside, the guys you play with. Playing on the offensive line, you're only as good as your weakest guy up front. I was blessed to play with a lot of guys for a long time.

I guess I get my strength from my legs, which are also important in tennis.

I had not picked up a tennis racket in 15 years, so I tried.

It's something I really love to do. I mean, I don't see myself without tennis.

To me, anyone with an Australian accent wielding a tennis racket is cool.

In the U.S. I can concentrate all the time on playing tennis, doing my training and all the important stuff.

Every era of coaches has their own set of problems and challenges. Today's player is different, but some things about them are better than they were in the past. I don't think coaching today's players is any tougher. I think we're a little too hard on the current day player because he's different.

I want to play my best tennis and see how far I can go.

All teenage girls like to look good and tennis players are no different.

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

In my professional tennis career, I had much more success in doubles.

Andrea Jaeger plays tennis like she's double-parked.

If you want an MMO, there are plenty out there. The difference with a single player game is that in the same way you lose yourself in a good novel, you can lose yourself in a single player story. You see it in all these games, where you can fill your house with turnips or decorate your armour with a dragon skull.

I was a very good baseball player and football player as a kid, but my father always told me - occasionally while striking me - that I was much more interested in how I looked playing baseball or football than in actually playing. And I think there's great truth in that.

I feel like I'm doing some great things for American tennis.

Once you succeed in tennis, financially you become quite well off.

The best thing about being 6'9'' is that it helps with my tennis game, especially with my serve.

Me writing about tennis is like a baker baking bread.

I was 7 years old and my dad gave me a wooden tennis racket.

With all the injury problems we have in men's tennis at the moment, I'm happy to still be standing.

For my fifth birthday, I got a small tennis racket. That's how I started.

I only ever run when there's some point to it - say, if it's in a game of tennis.

There's no question that professional tennis in Orange County, and even in L.A., has not done well.

We want to make tennis look like America when it comes to cultural backgrounds.

There's a real difference between singles tennis and working as part of a team.

Unlike in my young days I'm not able to eat, drink and sleep tennis.

I don't like running that much, and during the off-season, I have to do it, but if I can replace it with tennis, it is better.

I never lost a tennis match, I just ran out of time

I heckled somebody at the U.S. Open once. And you know, tennis, it's not a good place for that.

Tennis is such a physically demanding sport, and it can be so rough on the body at the pro level.

Dialogue is the most fun to write. It's kind of like a tennis match.