Tennis Quotes · Page 51

My parents always taught me not to be a good tennis player or the best in what I'm doing, but to be…

— Jo-Wilfried Tsonga

Seems like most of the kids today are into other sports other than tennis.

— Jana Novotna

I'm an American. You can't go on where you were born. If you do then John McEnroe would be a German.

— Martina Navratilova

Be as subjective as you want. It's a great little racket. I'm glad we found it actually.

— Matt Labash

In tennis the addict moves about a hard rectangle and seeks to ambush a fuzzy ball with a modified snow-shoe.

— Elliott Chaze

I'm not really motivated to play tennis because of the points or the prize money.

— Ben Shelton

I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis.

— Sally Ride

I would blast AC/DC and walk out onto the tennis court and try to hit the ball hard.

— Howard Lutnick

I told myself, you're in the Wimbledon third round, never reached the fourth round so you have nothing to lose so go…

— Kiki Bertens

I had one good racket, a Wilson Javelin. It was my favorite racket, and I made the mistake of putting it next…

— Stefan Edberg

Americans haven't had the best success in the clay-court season or at Roland Garros, but it'd be really cool to change that…

— Ben Shelton

Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly…

— Jack Nicholson

Fortunately, the way I play tennis, I don't have to spend too much time analyzing or worrying about my opponents. I typically…

— Kevin Anderson

All sports are continuously developing, but what they all have in common is that the speed is increasing. That's also true of…

— Rafael Nadal

I was always wanting to play tennis, to enjoy the game and I've loved everything about it and not one day will…

— Bernard Tomic

Me with Zverev, me with Sinner, me with Berrettini. There are going to be a lot of rivalries out there. I think…

— Stefanos Tsitsipas

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

— James Roday

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

— Mats Wilander

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

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

Technically, the green screen acting can be difficult because there's something worse than a tennis ball on the end of a stick;…

— Jason O'Mara

To hear that you're doing something that other people are enjoying, it's a fun game. It's like hitting a tennis ball over…

— Kristin Bauer van Straten

On how he met Wayne Gretzky: I was in L.A. preparing for Indian Wells, and a mutual friend asked if I'd like…

— Milos Raonic

I know some of my self-worth comes from tennis, and it's hard to think of doing something else where you know you'll…

— Martina Navratilova

Croquet is tough. People play for months because the rules are so bizarre. Those crazy English.

— Jane Kaczmarek

Roger inspires me, we both play the one-hand backhand, he's also a very aggressive player.

— Stefanos Tsitsipas

Tennis is my dream. It is what I love. And it is what I want to be best at.

— Grigor Dimitrov

For nostalgia, I like to play Merion - I was fortunate enough to win the U.S. Open there.

— Justin Rose

I really want to do well at Slams; I think it's time. I'm not really afraid to talk about it.

— Jessica Pegula

You can see Bjorn Borg, but when I watch some game of him I want just to take a nap, no?

— Jo-Wilfried Tsonga

When I was a kid in Adelaide, I dreamed of becoming No. 1 in the world, winning a grand slam and the…

— Lleyton Hewitt

The only possible regret I have is the feeling that I will die without having played enough tennis.

— Jean Borotra

There were many occasions in my career where I could have given up, where I asked myself whether I would ever make…

— Amelie Mauresmo

I let my racket do the talking. That's what I am all about, really. I just go out and win tennis matches.

— Pete Sampras

My serve has killed a small dog ... I'm joking, I'm joking! The dog was huge!

— Andy Roddick

I have this terrible dark side to my personality, which playing tennis keeps at bay

— Monica Seles

He's now letting Chang play his own game - and he does that better than anyone.

— Christine Truman

The problem at Wimbledon seems to be that the club has suffered a loss of complacency.

— Joe Kinnear

To me, the [British] Open is the tournament I would come to if I had to leave a month before and swim…

— Lee Trevino

I like the racket to be not very stiff, but not quite flexible - somewhere in between.

— Maria Sakkari