Tennis Quotes

The thing is, it's not good anyway for eight-year-olds to be out there playing tennis tournaments so soon in their lives. But when I did get to play in a tournament, when I was nine, I was overjoyed.

I used to be told if I talked about my sexuality in any way that we wouldn't have a tennis tour.

It's just nice to see people enthusiastic about their tennis and want to learn and improve - for me that's the most important thing - I still love my tennis.

Tennis is so competitive. I guess that's the way it has to be.

It was very hard for me to practice and enjoy my tennis, and I didn't know the why, so I worked with psychologists to try and see what was happening. They pushed me really hard.

I haven't seen the film yet because I just got in from London. In the scenes where the two characters are bantering with each other, it is like bobbing at the net in tennis.

This trophy is so special in the world of tennis and it feels great.

Billie and I did wonders for women's tennis. They owe me a piece of their checks.

Tennis is more commercial these days.

What these guys are doing is great for Argentinean tennis. This is motivating other people.

There are a lot of pretty girls. I am a tennis player first of all, that is why I am here, and if wasn't producing results no one would notice me.

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.

When I retired from tennis I wanted to do other things with my life.

In tennis, you can make a couple of mistakes and still win. Not in golf. I played three rounds in that Tahoe event, and I was drained. Mentally, not physically.

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.

My mother said I would have more chances to become a tennis player than a football player.

I really try not to read the tennis articles, because a lot of times they're guessing at how a player is feeling, and I like to keep myself kind of open minded about how I'm feeling, rather than have someone else explain to me what's going on.

It was so inspiring for me to watch tennis growing up. I thought I was really good playing, until my brother told me I wasn't!

I love tennis, but I just don't like grass.

I used to play a lot of racket sports, tennis and squash.

Tennis lets you talk while you're playing.

Now I do bowling, golf, and tennis. I want to be a good bowler.

When you are very little tennis should be fun, it should be a game.

My father had never watched tennis, never liked tennis too much. He said, 'OK, we buy a racket, we watch together,' because we didn't know anything. It was a process of learning together that made it more interesting.

Tennis just a game, family is forever.

I'm a big sports guy - golf, tennis, baseball, basketball, snowboarding - and I love games.

Actors need bricks to play with, and in fact we rejected all the improvised fragments we had made without a plan. Improvisation without a plan is like tennis without tennis balls.

Golf can be tougher than tennis when things go wrong, because you can't explain things by saying that your opponent played better than you. It's a cruel sport in that way.

I would like to see it go back to the wood racquets. To see the touch put back in tennis.

In these days of modern tennis a player is as strong as his weakest stroke.