Tennis Quotes · Page 31

I enjoy tennis, though don't play very often nowadays, and skiing... oh yes and swimming.

— Roger Moore

Playing matches is definitely going to help me get ready for the U.S. Open.

— Sofia Kenin

I wouldn't mind if I won in Australia or at Wimbledon or Roland Garros. A slam is a slam.

— Carlos Alcaraz

I know I'm not the best tennis player there's ever been, but calling me a loser is just ignorance.

— Tim Henman

Hopefully I can just have another terrible year with only the one Grand Slam and that will be just fine.

— Roger Federer

New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and…

— Jimmy Connors

Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.

— Venus Williams

Thousands of time I've won the Open Championship in my mind. This is probably the one I've dreamed about the most.

— Justin Rose

I grew up on the tennis court with lots of other kids. There were like 40 kids all afternoon and I was…

— Martina Hingis

I became president of the players' association and was willing to have conversations with influential people about equal prize money or how…

— Pam Shriver

I don't mind fans coming up in a friendly, respectful way. That's all part of the fun of being a top tennis…

— Roger Federer

It's very frustrating when you don't always get the right kind of rub - you watch tennis and know if you play…

— Neil Robertson

First of all, let me say, 1:15 in the morning, for 20,000 people to still be here, I wasn't the winner, tennis…

— Andre Agassi

Unless we get children playing tennis, we'll lose the talented ones with good athletic ability and hand-eye coordination to football and other…

— Tim Henman

When I was a baby, I was on a tennis court every day with my mom and with my brothers, so I…

— Petra Kvitova

I love playing tennis. To me this is not a workout, but a fun extracurricular activity I do with friends so it…

— Ana de la Reguera

I never think about the numbers. I've never played tennis for the money, because as long as I enjoy it, and I…

— Maria Sharapova

I don't play tennis to prove a point to anyone. I play for my country and myself. It's not changing what people…

— Sania Mirza

Growing up, I did quite a bit of reading on the mental side. My dad, who coached me, had us doing a…

— Kevin Anderson

Though many painters and sculptors talk glibly of "going in for photography," you will find that very few of them can ever…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

When I fight for a cause and I know it, I fight for it. I'm not scared to say something. I think…

— Gael Monfils

Even if I play backgammon with my coach, I hate to lose. I won't talk to him for, like, an hour. So…

— Ana Ivanovic

“And then also, again, still, what are those boundaries, if they’re not baselines, that contain and direct its infinite expansion inward, that…

— David Foster Wallace

You have to keep writing. It's almost like practice, almost like tennis, that actually after a few days of not writing, first…

— Colm Toibin

In my professional tennis career, I had much more success in doubles.

— Ilana Kloss

A smart girl is one who knows how to play tennis, golf, piano -- and dumb.

— Marilyn Monroe

In the U.S. I can concentrate all the time on playing tennis, doing my training and all the important stuff.

— Kei Nishikori

So I think, for me, playing matches - actually being in real matches - is the best way to get myself playing…

— Taylor Fritz

The Olympics is not for tennis and tennis does not need the Olympics. It is not my goal in life to win…

— Marat Safin

Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition and tennis is going to be something I'm probably not very good at.

— Maggie Grace

If Pete’s (Sampras) child is a girl, my son will like her; if he’s a boy, my son will defeat him.

— Andre Agassi

In badminton, they use a lot from the wrist. But I use a lot from the shoulder.

— Li Na

She [Serena Williams] played some great shots, but so did I, and that was the only difference.

— Jennifer Capriati

My mom was a professional tennis player. She was the one who made tennis in Greece an actual sport.

— Maria Sakkari

In my free time, I love to catch up with tennis, swimming, travelling, and chess.

— Namrata Shirodkar

For me, it's really special to be playing at these big tournaments and playing my best tennis at the big tournaments.

— Ben Shelton

Tennis was always sort of a - a learning. It was a vehicle for me to discover a lot about myself.

— Andre Agassi

Grand Slam, every minute on court counts. You have to be really focused and show your best level.

— Carlos Alcaraz

Borg had an American attitude, which I think is not so good. He only enjoyed winning and he was out of tennis…

— Mats Wilander

“...we start the year on the other side of the world, at the Australian Open, and then just chase the sun.”

— Andre Agassi