Top 1200 Tennis Quotes & Sayings - Page 18
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Last updated on December 24, 2024.
The minute you think you know everything about tennis is the minute your game starts going down the tubes.
People ask me if I would like my children to play tennis, and I'm, like, 'Hmm. Maybe not.' And that's a bit strange.
At the end of the day, it is a very long year. The tennis season is pretty much ten months of the year.
To me, acting is like tennis. You're only as good as the person you're playing with, so if you're playing with Michael C. Hall, what do you have to worry about?
My role is to think about tennis and to help Serena Williams be the best she can be and do what she wants to achieve.
I am here to play women's tennis. I'm a lady. Predominantly, most of the time I always like to play ladies.
I don't need to come back to Wimbledon every year because I can't live without it. I'd be totally cool without tennis.
To play against Serena in a final is something special. You know you must play your best tennis.
I'm glad that I can play the tennis that I always wish to play.
For me tennis is a sport, you know? It's not a job, it's a sport.
I ride a bicycle. I make artwork and do other kinds of stuff - but in terms of unwind, I like to play tennis and ride.
I've played this game from 12-under to the over-70s. So when they say tennis is a game from the cradle to the grave, you truly have it right.
I think tennis needs to be reinvented. I think there is a space for two different tours. This exists in many other sports.
There is so many things to do in life rather than playing tennis, so I'm sure I will find something. I just need a bit of time to kind of settle down.
The fifth set is not about tennis, it's about nerves.
I was good at sports - basketball, football, tennis and dropped them all. At 16, I didn't care about sports anymore.
I love to play tennis. I play a lot in the summer. I'm not a big golfer; I need something a bit more intense.
I really play tennis for me, enjoy it for me.
But it's always good to see youngsters taking over and playing great tennis. We have to get ready and prepare because they're going to play better against us.
I think in fifth sets I'm really playing good tennis, more than any other sets.
I had other coaches when I was younger but my father was there, following all my training. He has seen as much tennis as many coaches on tour.
I get bored easily, so in general, I tend to mix up my workouts. I exercise in the gym with a trainer once a week when I'm in town, and I love yoga, golf and tennis.
Tennis is my life, obviously; I need to focus, I need to win. But it's not the only thing. I'm not going to play forever.
There is so much that goes in to being a good tennis player. It's not just what you can do well on the court, it's between the ears as well.
Oh! full Surrey twilight! importunate band!
Oh! strongly adorable tennis-girl's hand!
Tennis is a great platform for me to do well, and for sure, I want to be No 1, to win Slams, but there are more things that I want to do.
Some of us have the good fortune of some type of natural gift, whether it's playing tennis or painting or writing.
As I played a lot of tennis ball cricket, I used to watch Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis a lot.
It's good in tennis that you don't have to be big or a tall guy to be good. Otherwise I had no chance to get in the top 20.
Sometimes I think the easiest way to introduce what goes into managing the expenses of a tennis career is to take a look at another pro sport and notice some of the differences.
It wasn't my tennis that made me lose, it was a lot of different things going on, high drama, high emotion.
I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis.
We don't talk about tennis. I figure she knows what she's doing. I mean, what am I going to tell her?
All sports are continuously developing, but what they all have in common is that the speed is increasing. That's also true of tennis; the ball is getting faster and faster.
Why are there no great women artists?' sounds as ignorant of human geography as the query 'Why are there no Eskimo tennis teams?
He knew what the Beats know and what the great tennis player knows, son: learn to do nothing, with your whole head and body, and everything will be done by what's around you.
When it rains, I do a lot of indoor exercises; when its pleasant, I play a lot of tennis and do swimming, and opt for outdoor sports and running.
The majority of people don't even realise I was a tennis player. The older you get, the less people remember what you did before.
I love camping out, I love teaching tennis.
You're the only one in control over your golf ball. It's not like tennis: you're hitting a shot and somebody's hitting it back at you.
Changing public perceptions is important. Nobody bats an eyelid in a team sport when a player gets injured and is still getting paid. In tennis, there is nothing like that.
When I discovered European filmmakers, it affected me so deeply. It redefined what cinema could be. I mean, 'Blow-Up' ends with a dead body and mimes playing tennis. What?
If I'm on holiday, I'm active on the beach, I play tennis, I run, I swim a lot. It's just about making the workouts fun, I think, and then it doesn't really feel that bad.
Tennis has to be very careful.Not everyone is a computer, it is very good we have John McEnroe. I hope we have a couple more.
That's how tennis is sometimes: You can have good days, you can have bad days, your opponents can play really well.
I go out there because I love tennis and I love playing. To hold the trophy in the end, you know, it's amazing.
Safin, in his way, is very talented. It is a joy to watch them play; it is tennis of a very high quality.
It's that I have a good personality and am a good tennis player.
I love tennis, but the main thing in my life, is life.
I'm the kind of guy that I cannot just lock myself in the room and just think tennis for 24 hours.
I don't have a high-powered life out of work. I like to go to the country for the weekend with the kids and the dog and play tennis. I am very good at turning off.
In tennis that's the beauty. You can always suit up the next week and play another tournament and always have the chance to win it.
I feel comfortable on and off the court, happy in my own skin, just really comfortable with the way I'm playing my tennis.
I like things to feel a touch unfinished; sweatpants with heels, or tennis shoes with a trouser. Those things are important.
I'm a decent table tennis player, but if you were to put me up against any of the guys you see on television at the Olympics, I'd be lucky to get a couple of points.
When I wasn't playing with Barbie dolls, I was always playing with different kinds of balls, and my dad said, let's try tennis.
For the first couple of years I played really bad tennis. It was so bad that they booed me off the court
What don't I miss about tennis? Oh man, the road, the airports, the rain delays, the scheduling, the knots in your stomach, not being able to eat. Things like that.
I loved dance, but tennis felt more natural to me. Dance did help with my rhythm and balance.
Tennis is a running game, not a hitting game - it's not golf.