Tennis Quotes · Page 45

Since I was like eight, I always wanted to be playing pro tennis.

— Frances Tiafoe

I love playing at Roland Garros even though people think that I'm not a clay-court specialist.

— Aryna Sabalenka

I did realize more than ever, after the stabbing, that tennis is a business - a tough business.

— Monica Seles

Winning a doubles title or reaching a doubles final does soften the blow of an early singles exit a little bit.

— Jessica Pegula

It's the good thing about sports, about tennis. One week can change everything, you have to remember that.

— Andrey Rublev

Always I say, 'No. 1 in the world without a Grand Slam, you are not a real No. 1.'

— Simona Halep

I actually tried quite a few racquets in college before I turned pro.

— Kevin Anderson

You can't buy ATP points to buy your ranking. It's not possible; otherwise Gulbis would be No. 1 in the world.

— Tommy Haas

If you lived the doubles, as I did, which was very stressful, you are sitting down in a chair experiencing a match…

— Guy Forget

Well, I like to - the game of serve and volley, but it's very tough, you know, against the best players because…

— Daniela Hantuchova

For me it was just important to play my game and believe until the end. Even now, Venus is not in the…

— Elena Vesnina

I figure J-Lo does all these movies and all these videos and all this other stuff...I know I can play tennis and…

— Serena Williams

Why has slamming a ball with a racquet become so obsessive a pleasure for so many of us? It seems clear to…

— Nat Hentoff

As soon as we showcased the Wii in 2006, people immediately understood. At that E3 show, I was up on the stage…

— Satoru Iwata

You will never have great tennis champions from England because of the cold and dark, but most of all because people only…

— Monica Seles

I always said that it's just about belief in yourself. It doesn't matter that you are one-set-to-love down. Tennis is a sport…

— Carlos Alcaraz

At the very beginning of my career, when I opened my business in Italy, I was also a ranked tennis player. I…

— Oleg Cassini

Like all sports fans, tennis junkies are not satisfied with simply following the current crop of players and admiring their accomplishments. They…

— Dave McPherson

“His chief form of entertainment was reading. The last moments he was in a cabin were usually spent scanning bookshelves and nightstands.…

— Michael Finkel

We look for opportunities to play together including basketball, tennis, swimming, riding bikes and touch football. I try to provide a loving…

— Alan Thicke

An idea has no worth at all without believable characters to implement it; a plot without characters is like a tennis court…

— Chuck Jones

I proved that I can win the Grand Slams. I proved that I can last four and a half hours and come…

— Andy Murray

I am very blessed to be able to play tennis, the sport that I love and very grateful for the opportunities to…

— Roger Federer

If you're working with someone who you get on with and you're supposed to hate them on the screen, then you get…

— Joseph Morgan

Isn't it funny - why is it called a tennis bracelet? It doesn't seem very tennis, does it?

— John Cameron Mitchell

I only ever run when there's some point to it - say, if it's in a game of tennis.

— Rafael Nadal

I was very disappointed (at the U.S. Open), and I went out there and I worked really hard.

— Maria Sharapova

I have amazing friends around supporting me. They give me a lot of energy. In this way, my tennis raised a lot…

— Andrey Rublev

When some people were going around being surf bums and tennis bums, I was being a gallery bum. I really liked galleries.

— Dennis Hopper

To beat Federer 3 times does not mean anything he is a genius whose hair does not even move when he plays.

— Guillermo Canas

If I wore a sleeveless shirt, people would try to feed me after the match.

— Andy Roddick

Ivan Lendl's never going to be a great player on grass. The only time he comes to the net is to shake…

— Goran Ivanisevic

As tennis players, you are never satisfied. We are greedy as players, always want better results.

— Sania Mirza

I've always led a pretty simple life, with few extravagances. The money in tennis never drove me.

— Pete Sampras

When I play, I feel like I'm in a theatre, why should I look ugly then, because I'm a tennis-player?

— Anna Kournikova

If I didn't do well at Wimbledon maybe Chinese people will forget about me.

— Li Na

I ride a bicycle. I make artwork and do other kinds of stuff - but in terms of unwind, I like to…

— Lee Ranaldo

It was a match I lost, rather than she won [on Serena Williams winning with an apparent cramp injury at Wimbledon

— Daniela Hantuchova

Every time I tour, I find a pro - I go to the local tennis center in that country, wherever it is…

— Redfoo

I think I’ll play two years more, if my own body lets me do that... I still think my best tennis is…

— Justine Henin