Top 1200 Tennis Quotes & Sayings - Page 14
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Last updated on December 25, 2024.
It starts with family - they've sacrificed so much for me, with my parents moving away from each other when we were young, for tennis.
Tennis matches can last a long time and there are lots of times when all sorts of things can go through your mind.
When I don't enjoy it anymore, I'll stop. But I think as long as people want me to be where the action is, I'll be there. I just love to play tennis.
Listening to Britons dining out is like watching people play first-class tennis with imaginary balls.
I've always been lucky enough to just play tennis, so I never actually had a job when I was growing up.
To be honest, everything in my life outside of tennis is great. I'm doing amazing projects that, if I didn't have time off, I wouldn't be able to focus on.
Andy Murray's already done what is needed for British tennis, which is ignite it. There's a person, there's a player that kids want to be like.
I love playing tennis. To me this is not a workout, but a fun extracurricular activity I do with friends so it doesn't feel like I'm working out.
I had a great tennis career. I have no regrets. But to find peace with yourself, and to finally be with your family - I'm probably the happiest guy in the world.
I loved to play, I was competitive, I wanted to win, that was all I knew. In the first few years tennis is a game. Later, it becomes a job.
My dream was always to be in the NBA. I just happened to be better at tennis in high school. But I loved basketball, that's why I stuck with it.
I think Li Na and some other Chinese ladies have done so many amazing things for Asian tennis.
Tennis is pretty unforgiving if you are carrying weight. You are expected to wear short skirts, and you are compared to all these 16 and 17-year-olds.
I'm an ardent tennis player. I'm like an overenthusiastic child out there and I've damaged my back. It's not that it's crippling pain, more mental anguish.
I tried all kinds of sports when I was a kid, like soccer and tennis and golf, and, in fact, started skating to be able to play hockey.
Growing up not being the biggest guy around, you learn different ways of playing tennis. I've learned to adapt.
Back in East St. Louis, tennis wasn't the real thing. If you weren't playing baseball, basketball, football, you were kind of on the outside.
I've always been a person who likes to take care of myself, but there is so much to do behind the scenes, and I love to just focus on the tennis.
I don't do a huge amount of physical activity. I play tennis, I work out sporadically, and I eat well and take care of myself.
Music and television are turning into the equivalent of gymnastics and tennis: sports built entirely around the identification and training of prodigies.
Tennis is very much a meritocracy. There's no favoritism, there's no politics. You either win or lose based on how you perform in the moment.
I get quite stroppy if I lose - but I've developed skills with a mind coach to help deal with the highs and lows of tennis at this level.
I'm trying to enjoy my lie as much as I can and I know that tennis hopefully is going to be my life the next 10, 15 years.
As a teenager, Monica Seles won some historic matches on the tennis court, dominating opponents and filling a room with trophies.
I'm just super competitive. Squash, tennis, water skiing, computer games... Even if I played you at pool, I'd have to win.
When I was 12, every little girl in Russia was trying to wear her hair like mine and playing tennis.
It is hard to compete with other sports. Badminton is a sport which, when compared with football and tennis, still needs promotion.
I grew up surrounded by tennis, so I was obviously more interested in it than football - particularly as it's the most popular sport.
Tennis is one of the only sports in America where the sport doesn't grow with the size of the person - it just forces you to swallow the whole pill.
I had a fabulous childhood. Not many people have an outdoor tennis court that you're allowed to put your ponies on and pretend you're at Hickstead.
In tennis the addict moves about a hard rectangle and seeks to ambush a fuzzy ball with a modified snow-shoe.
Borg had an American attitude, which I think is not so good. He only enjoyed winning and he was out of tennis when he was 26.
Even as a kid, I'd kick a tennis ball against a wall with both feet for hours. That was one way to become two-footed.
Tennis is seen all around the world; if I am home or anywhere in the country, United States, people will stare.
The great part about tennis is you can't run out the clock.... As long as we were still playing, I had a chance.
I always had that, even when I was a kid in a go-kart or when I was playing soccer or tennis: that need of winning. It was there all my life, and it's still there now.
Me, I'm a rising star for American tennis. I'm really proud to represent my country and hopefully I can keep going higher.
These girls play tennis first and foremost, the fact that many of them are very glamorous is a major bonus for any promoter.
Tennis parents and stage mothers should take note. The kid has got to want to do it, not just to please the parent, but for himself.
Never steal anything so small that you'll have to go to an unpleasant city jail for it instead of a minimum-security federal tennis prison.
Up until I was a junior at Georgia, I felt that when all was said and done, I'd at least have a college degree to fall back on when tennis was finished.
I think business is the same as tennis. You have to have the love, that helps, or else it's just too much pressure to be able to keep up with.
Tennis is like a wonderful, longstanding relationship with a husband. Golf is a tempestuous, lousy lover; it's totally unpredicatable, a constant surprise.
I love being outside and feeling free, so I jog or ride my bike. Some days I play basketball or tennis.
I always have a Sharpie, because usually when someone asks me for an autograph, they don't have a pen. I carry one in my purse, as well as in my tennis bag.
One Oxford poet confessed to me that I had been scary because I talked American and wore tennis shoes.
There is no cheap way to achieve the ability to turn pro in tennis; it unfortunately is more expensive than team sports.
It's tough when you're No. 1. You don't have any private life, you can't even walk anywhere. I think that was one reason why I lost my motivation to play tennis.
I got a message from a little girl just saying that she's starting to play tennis because of me. That was pretty amazing.
I think we are big believers that we can provide the answers to help grow team tennis in America and create American champions.
I've seen tennis clubs close in Manhattan and garages put up in their place, and I'd sure like to be part of reversing that trend.
What is the single most important quality in a tennis champion? I would have to say desire, staying in there and winning matches when you are not playing that well.
I never close my mind to anything and eventually want to branch out. But for now, tennis is still number one for me.
Usually if you haven't figured out how you want to play tennis yourself, it is hard to accept the failures of playing five sets.
I'm a useless guitar-player. When I put myself in a band I immediately became its weakest part. I was like my forehand volley at tennis.
Tennis is more than just shots. It's about being clutch and beating the people on the other side of the net.
I'm amazed that years after I stopped playing tennis, people still recognize me in restaurants and ask for my autograph.
I've always been a little different in the way I've done things, going to high school instead of a tennis academy when I was younger.
I really stay busy [in retirement]. I often have to cancel my golf games on the weekends to go play in tennis tournaments.
I still get goose-bumps when I walk into the All England Lawn Tennis Club at the start of tournament and that will never change.
