Tennis Quotes

I used to get nervous, you know if my parents would come watch. And then I would get nervous if my friends came and watched. Today it's not a problem anymore actually, because now I enjoy it. I see that they, you know, respect me immensely, and I try to put on a good show and show that I can still play very good tennis.

I have this terrible dark side to my personality, which playing tennis keeps at bay.

Tennis has had a very positive impact on my life.

Relationships are give-and-take, and when you're a tennis player, you're certainly not giving. You have to be self-absorbed. It has to be about you.

If I didn't play tennis I don't know where I'd be.

I'm amazed that years after I stopped playing tennis, people still recognize me in restaurants and ask for my autograph.

Golfers are forever working on mechanics. My tennis swing hasn't changed in 10 years.

I'd love to open a tennis school for children in my hometown of Sochi.

I know my serve stinks, but I was a pretty good tennis player.

I will do everything in my power to make sure people are aware that our team is out there fighting the good fight for the tennis fans of the United States.

I want my tennis to speak for everything.

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 think that tennis is a lady's sport, so we should look out there like ladies.

After being on the court for six hours, being on TV is very glamorous and fun for me. But tennis is always going to be my priority. It's not going to be this thing when all of a sudden TV will get in the way of that.

I've been playing tennis, and just whatever sport is in front of me I will do.

My mother wanted very much to play tennis; she wanted, most of all, to be a singer and play the piano.

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.

I like putting money back into what made my life, and tennis has been great to me.

In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to.

A good thing is I've been playing tennis I think every day for the last two months. I really haven't had a day off. I've been doing things that I did used to do.

One day my dad would say, 'OK, if you want to play tennis I can help you out.' And that's how it started. And I had a goal. I wanted to beat my mom first. And my parents and my brother. And that was the ultimate goal.

I was always in the tennis business-from 1968. I was in tournaments and also on World Team Tennis teams as well.

There was endless action - not just football, but sailboats, tennis and other things: movement. There was endless talk - the ambassador at the head of the table laying out the prevailing wisdom, but everyone else weighing in with their opinions and taking part.

I've played too many tennis hours.

Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.

To be a professional tennis player you need to put in these sort of hours.

Tennis was always sort of a - a learning. It was a vehicle for me to discover a lot about myself. And the things that I sort of discovered at times I not only didn't want to see it for myself but I certainly didn't want millions of people to see it.

This was a special week and a special victory for me. I played some great tennis.

It's really football, tennis, and golf that I watch other than hockey.

If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life.