Top 1200 Tennis Quotes & Sayings - Page 16
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Last updated on December 24, 2024.
My dad was a professional basketball player, and my mom was a hell of a tennis player.
There is competition. It's almost like I'm back in tennis competing in a way. There are usually about twenty composers vying for the number one spot for a big or medium film.
The Williams girls compete extremely hard on court because they hate losing - it's just that they haven't played an awful lot of tennis over the years.
A thousand books on tennis won’t improve your serve, but a thousand serves will.
I was just another long-haired teenage kid with visions of grandeur, strumming a tennis racket or a broom in front of his bedroom mirror.
Even though I never really liked watching tennis too much when I was growing up, it is fair to say Kim Clijsters was my idol.
If you play tennis it is to have these moments, moments of adrenaline, where it gets dangerous. It is a bit masochistic.
I was always wanting to play tennis, to enjoy the game and I've loved everything about it and not one day will I wake up and say I've had enough.
Seems like most of the kids today are into other sports other than tennis.
I always find the time to exercise - kitesurfing, tennis or cycling - and to spend time with my loved ones.
I want to change the sport for the better. I want to do a lot for women's tennis.
Growing up, I remember I played tennis competitively and I'd always like fake an injury to get out of the conditioning portion. I was never a runner.
I'm really happy to be back on the court to play tennis, to really do what I love.
One day you can be a kid, but another day you have to be like this is your job, you play tennis. You have to work for that.
Game shows are like golf and tennis are for some men. It's not like going to work.
I beat my sons in real-life table tennis, but virtually, I get murdered. I download games on the iPhone that I'm addicted to - I'm a master at "Angry Birds."
I haven't lost a war. No one got killed. I just lost a tennis match.
Obviously, like Wembley is synonymous with tennis, snooker is synonymous with Sheffield.
Every day two million Americans play tennis and one million of them lose.
Tennis is not a contract sport and we really rely on the WTA and ATP tours to be up and running so players can earn prize money to make a living.
I'm really trying to focus myself on playing tennis, and I think that's really important.
When you have to react to a lizard that's a tennis ball, it's a really, really difficult, tricky piece of craft.
A lot of guys sometimes, you know, you might see them get angry at a line call, and suddenly they start playing better tennis.
I'd also made the first tennis team. I was number two player in the school at 11 years of age and that didn't sit very well with people.
The doctors told me I'd be fine if I play only golf and tennis doubles for the rest of my life. But I dive. I dogsled. I trek. I guess I'll have surgery.
I asked [my doctors] if I'd be able to play singles tennis and they said I could. That made me very happy since I haven't played in five years.
I play not just tennis but also football, basketball and also did judo.
I feel lucky to keep playing tennis, being healthy all those years, to compete in one of the most beautiful events of the year, without a doubt.
When I need to relax, I love to go to the movies or watch a good TV series. I also practice a lot of sport, mostly tennis and swimming.
Other than football, I think I'd pick tennis and golf as my favourite other sports.
You know my dad pushed me to believe that I was going to be the best. I just never thought of life without tennis, even looking forward.
It's not only about a game and tennis, but it's more about the mental things sometimes.
I don't love tennis but I like it a lot and it's something that I need to do and I need to do as best as I can.
Look, tennis is a funny sport. I always try to do my best and play as best as I can.
This was a special week and a special victory for me. I played some great tennis.
Tennis helped give me an identity and made me feel like somebody.
The only way to quieten me is to invite me to a tennis match.
If I stay healthy and I'm playing good tennis I have as good a chance as anybody.
There are a lot of hours and a lot of sacrifices you have to make to achieve your dreams as a tennis player.
Tennis taught me what happens when you really work on something, and what happens when you don't.
I do a lot of running. Bit of squash, bit of tennis. I don't like feeling out of shape.
Black people playing tennis, next white people will be tap dancing!
In the pros, tennis is all about individuals. In college, it's getting individuals to make points for the team.
Men hate to lose. I once beat my husband at tennis. I asked him, "Are we going to have sex again?" He said, "Yes, but not with each other."
I love being outdoors, playing beach tennis, going for runs in the sand, or doing a three-hour hike with my best girlfriend, Mieko.
If you told me as a ten-year-old kid, loving tennis as I did, that I'd be plagued by injuries and have to finish early I'd still have chosen this life.
I admire Roger Federer, not only for his tennis but also for his personality.
If I wanted to play individual, I'm going to play tennis or something like that.
As tennis players, you are never satisfied. We are greedy as players, always want better results.
Swinging at daisies is like playing electric guitar with a tennis racket: if it were that easy, we could all be Jerry Garcia. The ball changes everything.
When I was five, I wanted to be a cleaning lady; when I was nine, I wanted to be the world's number one tennis player.
Every good tennis player has to have a short memory. Good or bad.
I do play tennis, but I don't really like competition. I'm supposed to be so intense, but I hate competition.
I was so tired of playing tennis, so tired of traveling, of hotels, everything related to this sport.
Tennis is a mental game. Everyone is fit, everyone hits great forehands and backhands.
Honestly, I could get in a car accident today and never play tennis again, and then I wouldn't have anything to fall back on. But fortunately enough, I do.
Unless we get children playing tennis, we'll lose the talented ones with good athletic ability and hand-eye coordination to football and other sports.
I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
It's a pretty cool feeling to be the person to knock down a barrier - just like the Williams sisters did in tennis or Tiger Woods in golf.
Tennis is a small window. You're not going to have unlimited chances, unlimited opportunities. You can't waste time.
