Tennis Quotes · Page 29

I guess you get to work on volleys, you get to work on your returns a lot in doubles.

— Coco Gauff

Roger Federer certainly is my claim to be the best of all time - if there is such a thing. With Rafael…

— Rod Laver

With everything else that would swirl around me when I got involved in it, tennis was my main concern.

— Jimmy Connors

The proudest thing I have ever done was to win the singles, doubles, and mixed doubles at Wimbledon.

— Bobby Riggs

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

— Jeanne Tripplehorn

It's always tough when you miss a Grand Slam, especially Wimbledon.

— David Goffin

Whatever I am today is because of my mom and she has taught me everything in tennis and still does.

— Andrey Rublev

Tennis is a funny game; unbelievable highs and the lows are just as low.

— John McEnroe

Tennis is like a wonderful, longstanding relationship with a husband. Golf is a tempestuous, lousy lover; it's totally unpredicatable, a constant surprise.

— Dinah Shore

I'm a massive Roger Federer fan, and sometimes I can see in his game the willful development of a tactic or technique…

— Chris Thile

It's important to work the core in all planes of movement, as we move in all three planes in tennis, especially into…

— Taylor Fritz

I have always considered tennis as a combat in an arena between two gladiators who have their racquets and their courage as…

— Yannick Noah

Tennis is a tough sport - a long year, a lot of matches, a lot of travelling. It's not easy so being…

— Alex de Minaur

I think Serena Williams is the best tennis player of this generation, if not the best ever. It is amazing for her…

— Samantha Stosur

I think I was made to be a tennis player because it's easier for me to go on and off in a…

— Iga Swiatek

On the page, 'Gone Girl' was a literary game: a tennis match of alternating chapters from Nick and Amy, with the reader…

— Richard Corliss

Ever since I was little I was really ambitious and driven, and it was my dream to compete with the best girls…

— Ajla Tomljanovic

I had to pay an incredible amount to get insured on it and, after a couple of weeks of driving it around,…

— Andy Murray

Naturally I've known girlies form an attachment to the younger male before now, but in the tennis score of the bedroom most…

— Stephen Fry

You learn to see by practice. It's Just like playing tennis, you get better the more you play. The more you look…

— Eliot Porter

The answer to this riddle has a hole in the middle, And some have been known to fall in it. In tennis…

— Trenton Lee Stewart

John McEnroe...was arguably the best serve-and-volley man of all time, but then McEnroe was an exception to pretty much every predictive norm…

— David Foster Wallace

I feel lucky to live at a time when the dominant tennis players are Venus and Serena Williams. And to have lived…

— George Elliott Clarke

Martina Navratilova said in the early '90s that Seles would inspire the players of the future to also use two-handed forehands. That…

— Dave McPherson

I play tennis for a living even though I hate tennis, hate it with a dark and secret passion and always have.

— Andre Agassi

Everybody loves sport but we have derelict tennis courts, football pitches are not kept up to standards - it's basic stuff.

— Paul Casey

When we used the small-faced racquets and wood racquets, we had to use every part of the court.

— Evonne Goolagong Cawley

I'm really trying to focus myself on playing tennis, and I think that's really important.

— Stefan Edberg

I started when I was 4, but I didn't play seriously until I was 8.

— Kathy Rinaldi

“In any game, the game itself is the prize, no matter who wins, ultimately both lose the game.”

— Amit Kalantri

I'm just trying to play good tennis and win matches. Then I let other people decide what they think.

— Daniil Medvedev

Tennis is a psychological sport, you have to keep a clear head. That is why I stopped playing.

— Boris Becker

It's always more fun when you see the Americans winning, especially at their home zlam. It's great for American tennis.

— Jessica Pegula

Tennis is more than just a sport. It's an art, like the ballet. Or like a performance in the theater.

— Bill Tilden

The trouble with me is that every match I play against five opponents: umpire, crowd, ball boys, court, and myself.

— Goran Ivanisevic

Acting is a sport, like a game of tennis, and you and your opponent take turns setting the level of play.

— Shawnee Smith

In the history of women's tennis the great players have come back from long absences with no problems.

— Lindsay Davenport

When you're watching college tennis and you're in that close match, there's nothing better.

— Jack Sock

The roughest thing I ever said to an umpire was, 'Are you sure?'

— Rod Laver

The days of a tennis champion as a gender rights leader are over.

— Rich Eisen