Top 1200 Tennis Quotes & Sayings - Page 13
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Last updated on December 25, 2024.
I'm playing great tennis. I'm enjoying the tour, having fun with the fans off the court. I'm loving it now.
I walk my dogs. I garden a little. I play a bit of tennis. Basically when I have spare time I'm making music.
I love an actor who comes in, ready to work. It's like a good tennis player. They hit the ball where you don't expect it, and it's great.
Acting is a sport, like a game of tennis, and you and your opponent take turns setting the level of play.
I don't think I'm one of those guys who won't pick up a racket for three years...I love hitting tennis balls.
Tennis was a white, upper-class sport, and I wanted it to be treated like other sports were.
For me, I still wish every day that I could play tennis again. It's such an incredible, wonderful job to have.
Every time I tour, I find a pro - I go to the local tennis center in that country, wherever it is and I play.
Whether I'd stopped playing professionally at 17 - or if I stop at 35 - tennis will always be a part of my life.
I train Monday through Saturday. I usually have fitness training for 90 minutes, then I'm on the tennis court for 3 to 4 hours.
I'm trying not to focus on the height of my opponent, just to play my tennis and to open the angles because it's the most important.
Of all my achievements in tennis, I'm probably as proud of my record on clay courts as any of my Wimbledon, U.S. Open or French singles titles.
I like shoes that, no matter where I am, if I see a basketball or tennis court, I can tie them up and play.
We're following the evolution of tennis. On the women's side, there has been a very positive change, with the arrival of many new stars.
When I play, I feel like I'm in a theatre, why should I look ugly then, because I'm a tennis-player?
When I play, I feel like in a theatre, why should I look ugly then, because I'm a tennis player?
In a sport that's as close as tennis, I feel like anything that you can do to give yourself an edge is definitely worth doing.
Tennis is not like other sports where the coach is hired by an independent entity, and that makes a huge difference in the dynamic.
Now that my daughter is 9 and my son is 5, I'm starting to enjoy tennis more. I've been asked to play in the over 35s, and I may do that.
I am the greatest tennis player. The other players are like coins in my pocket that I give to a homeless man.
I think, for me, I just really want to have fun with every match that I play because tennis is a game.
I have never cared especially for outdoor sports and have no desire to excel at tennis, swimming, or golf. I'll leave those things to the men.
There's definitely a lack of self-belief in many players, which is the only complaint I have about men's tennis.
If somebody says I am better than Roger, I think this person doesn't know anything about tennis.
To be a tennis champion, you have to be inflexible. You have to be stubborn. You have to be arrogant. You have to be selfish and self-absorbed. Kind of tunnel vision almost.
People think when you're struggling and not winning matches it's because you're not working hard. That's the biggest misnomer in tennis.
I have to do two or three hours of treatments every day just to be able to step onto a tennis court.
This isn't tennis or track. This is basketball. It's more about the team than self. There are four other guys on the court with you.
We lose a lot of young athletes because tennis is such a difficult sport. It's not like kicking a soccer ball.
I have always been guided by striving to show the best that I could. That is what kept me going in tennis and it is the same now.
It can be tough and lonely on the road, but at the end of the day we get to play professional tennis for a living, and I wouldn't change it for the world.
The Czech tennis federation wasn't holding me back, but they could still pull the plug anytime they wanted.
I'm 6ft 7in and I was a bit like a giraffe on the tennis court, though I did play at county level.
To be in the top 10 for the first time, it's like a dream. When you start to play tennis, it's something you think about.
The Human Species could have been great but instead we became satisfied with lights on our tennis shoes.
I would blast AC/DC and walk out onto the tennis court and try to hit the ball hard.
One of the biggest things I've worked on is how to play my best tennis every single time I walk on to the court.
It's shocking how little there is to do with tennis when you're just thinking about nothing except winning every point.
Going through the tour every year and just focusing so intensely on tennis all the time was not working for me.
I can personally say if I'm not relevant in the singles world and my only choice is to play doubles, I'd probably stop playing tennis.
India needs better singles players to progress as a tennis nation. They need to develop, be physically fitter and stronger.
I don't think about tennis 24/7. I enjoy time on the lake at my Florida home and just being lazy on the sofa.
I don't want to talk about apartheid... I'm going to South Africa to play tennis and to see the country. That's as far as it goes.
With everything else that would swirl around me when I got involved in it, tennis was my main concern.
During COVID, I was still training, working on my fitness and my tennis. I was able to practice and play near where I live in Orlando.
In 1980 I was attacked by a dog in Spain and was temporarily blinded in one eye - I thought it would end my tennis career.
I was at an academy for basically my whole life when I played tennis, so I had the same schedule every single day.
Family's first, and that's what matters most. We realize that our love goes deeper than the tennis game.
People often put me in a V-neck tennis club sweater, driving a Bentley, but my life wasn't like that.
I grew up in the 1950s at the beginning of rock n' roll, and would strum a tennis racket in front of the mirror.
Id like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.
I've always led a pretty simple life, with few extravagances. The money in tennis never drove me.
Myself and Cameron Lickle travel around North America in an RV and we conduct tennis clinics in clubs.
I love the feel of hitting the ball hard, the pleasure of a rally. It is these things that make tennis the delightful game that it is.
I was glad to watch the soccer because it helps my tennis game, realize maybe they're just rooting for the underdog.
But it is impossible to enjoy a tennis game, a book, or a conversation unless attention is fully concentrated on the activity.
In tennis, it is not the opponent you fear, it is the failure itself, knowing how near you were but just out of reach.
When you start playing tennis, you don't imagine there's a whole bureaucracy behind the tournaments and all of that. You just think about winning the cups.
My youngest sister does not like tennis at all, and she'll be the first one to tell you that, which I find pretty funny.
I used to travel in tennis shoes; I am just not allowed to anymore. I'm an old hippie from San Francisco.
