Tennis Quotes · Page 47

I always watched these tournaments and want to be seeded and get the bye and be in the second week of Slams…

— Madison Keys

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

— Marin Cilic

No matter what happens, tennis is still tennis: You can see a lot of great matches, a lot of new people.

— Marat Safin

Against Federer, is not easy to share the fan's love. He is a local around the world in every tournament.

— Juan Martin del Potro

My shoulder's not where I want it to be, but I'm doing a good job of monitoring it.

— Maria Sharapova

Women are everywhere. We're letting them play golf and tennis now. It's out of control.

— Brian Kilmeade

My role is to think about tennis and to help Serena Williams be the best she can be and do what she…

— Patrick Mouratoglou

I love skateboarding and rollerblading, but I'm not really allowed to do it because of my tennis.

— Jo-Wilfried Tsonga

I'm 28, your career is a long time. We're not tennis players or football players. I'm just about reaching what should be…

— Tommy Fleetwood

If someone had told me then I would reach the Australian Open quarter-finals, I don't know what I would have said. Probably…

— Ben Shelton

I think more of my tennis is more to do with the mental side of things rather than technique or, you know,…

— Nick Kyrgios

I love to promote our sport. I love grass-roots tennis. I love coaching. I love all parts of the sport. I love…

— Billie Jean King

I was so lucky to have those people who took me under their wing and showed me what high-level tennis was like,…

— Christopher Eubanks

If you look at the likes of Agnieszka Radwanska and Svetlana Kuznetsova, they've been around a long time and been successful for…

— Johanna Konta

In the '70s, Florida-style golf communities started to be built for America's baby-boomers who were doing well and taking up the game…

— Alex Shoumatoff

I think the French Open, in many ways, brought out a certain characteristic in me and in my game that was already…

— Michael Chang

“During a match, you are in a permanent battle to fight back your everyday vulnerabilities, bottle up your human feelings. It’s a…

— Anonymous

It's good to have someone on the tour so close to you - I mean, like, my sister. There is no one…

— Karolina Pliskova

My sophomore English teacher encouraged me to write for the school paper, and that's what got me started. Suddenly it struck me…

— Jonathan Ames

Team sports, there's always some kind of sacrifice happening... A team, if we lose, if Michael Jordan has a bad night, you…

— Marc Blucas

For sure, with golf it's not a physically demanding sport like tennis. That's what makes tennis great - you combine both things.…

— Rafael Nadal

To me, Dan Evans is an example of somebody that puts the clock back a little bit and tells everybody: 'Listen, tennis…

— Mats Wilander

“Here’s the ultimate glitch in his argument. If you extrapolate logically from John McEnroe’s suggestion that 699 people are better at tennis…

— The Guardian

Our idea of fun wasn't going to Disney World. It was, you want to play basketball, go outside, and make a goal.…

— Booger McFarland

I don't make friends with the girls I'm playing against. It would be too painful to beat them.

— Virginia Wade

I used to travel in tennis shoes; I am just not allowed to anymore. I'm an old hippie from San Francisco.

— Amy Irving

Henman and Coria have met three times in the past and they've won one apiece.

— Annabel Croft

It's really amazing. Novak, Rafa, Roger, they win couple times a year in a row all the grand slams.

— Kei Nishikori

Quarter-finals is good at a Grand Slam, but I think we want to go farther.

— Tim Henman

My serve was there, everything was just clicking. Those are the days you dream about, especially in a final.

— Pete Sampras

Tennis is a very objective sport in the sense that the scoreboard doesn't lie.

— Andre Agassi

When you step out on the grounds of Wimbledon, you feel that respect, you feel that heritage, feel the history.

— Grigor Dimitrov

I did tennis for a while, and I was actually on the volleyball team for a minute.

— Kacey Musgraves

Yeah, I think there are many other important things in life, not just tennis.

— Daniela Hantuchova

Lendl has remained throughout as calm as the proverbial iceberg.

— Dan Maskell

I love being outside and feeling free, so I jog or ride my bike. Some days I play basketball or tennis.

— Jennifer Hudson

Every generation has its own Goran. So I was the Goran of this generation.

— Goran Ivanisevic

Because I've won one Grand Slam title, I feel like I have a good chance to win more.

— Simona Halep

“Prove the nay-sayers wrong... Leave being average to others... You could be the one who changes the way the world spins”

— Frank Giampaolo

If you play tennis it is to have these moments, moments of adrenaline, where it gets dangerous. It is a bit masochistic.

— Jo-Wilfried Tsonga