Tennis Quotes

Tennis has given me soul.

— Martina Navratilova

I'm about the present.

— Monica Seles

I have a strong tennis arm.

— Bess Truman

Tennis is physical chess.

— Rita Mae Brown

I'm not a big tennis fan.

— Teddy Geiger

I love to play Australian Open.

— Kei Nishikori

Tennis is popular in China.

— Peng Shuai

I love seeing tennis up close.

— Jim Parsons

I love Davis Cup. I respect it from my heart.

— Bernard Tomic

The only thing 'championship' about Wimbledon is its prestige.

— John McEnroe

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

— Venus Williams

Tennis is still very successful in spite of itself.

— Jim Courier

I feel at times I get blamed for the weather at Wimbledon.

— Tim Henman

I dislike the gym, but I'll chase a tennis ball all day.

— Matt Kuchar

Tennis doesn't encourage any kind of intellectual development.

— Jim Courier

Girls are a distraction and can easily cost points.

— Boris Becker

When you enter the gates of the All England Club, you can feel the history of tennis.

— Petra Kvitova

In tennis, you strike a ball just after the rebound for the fastest return. It's the same with investment.

— Masayoshi Son

For the first couple of years I played really bad tennis. It was so bad that they booed me off the court

— Richard Krajicek

I don't mix business with anything. I don't do business dinners. I don't do business tennis. And I don't do business squash.

— Philip Anschutz

I want to be remembered for as many tournaments as I can win and as many grand slams I can win.

— Bernard Tomic

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

— Sidney Crosby

Family's first, and that's what matters most. We realize that our love goes deeper than the tennis game.

— Serena Williams

You don't go home and talk about the great tennis courts that you played, but you do talk about the golf courses…

— Hank Ketcham

In a tiebreaker, you generally have a lot of adrenaline running through. It's all about just holding your serve, trying to hold…

— John Isner

I've been athletic since I was a kid. My parents got me playing tennis when I was seven years old and I…

— Lisa Rinna

In the beginning, I thought the Federer comparisons were cool, but after a while, I wasn't happy with it. It's not the…

— Grigor Dimitrov

I always ran very fast and jumped very high but when I was about thirteen it was more of a choice between…

— Gael Monfils

My first match on a Grand Slam show court was when I played Petra Kvitova on Centre Court at Wimbledon in 2015.…

— Kiki Bertens

Elizabeth studied the blurry tabloid photo, which showed her cousin Mary Stuart leaving a Paris disco at dawn, drunkenly clinging to the…

— Barbara Taylor Bradford

If I have a daughter and she plays tennis, and I have a son who plays tennis, I wouldn't say that my…

— Serena Williams

So many players play Serena Williams, and so many players may catch her on a bad day, but she finds a way.…

— Howard Bryant

You don't simply tell someone to get out there and win the tennis match. You say 'move your feet' or 'watch the…

— Diana Nyad

I wasn't all that attracted to writing originally. I read a great deal. My parents read a great deal. I do know…

— David Foster Wallace

Jim Courier did a great job of showing the rest what is possible. He could only hit forehands, but almost every one…

— Todd Martin

In writing a novel, the writer must be able to identify emotionally and intellectually with two or three or four contradicting perspectives…

— Amos Oz

People sometimes say, "Isn't it boring, isn't it always the same? It's the same lines." I go, "Well, do you play tennis?…

— Kevin Spacey

Every player, they should sit down and have a meeting. They should agree, 'this is how we play Nadal, this is how…

— Mats Wilander

Have I ever pretended to be something? I think back in college I think I might have told a girl that I…

— James Roday

In elementary school, I didn't even play sports, I was just straight up on the juggling team. I started out with the…

— A. J. Green