I did sleep with tennis rackets when I was little.

Unlike in my young days I'm not able to eat, drink and sleep tennis.

— Amelie Mauresmo

“The hands of the latest aristocrats seem better fit to hold tennis rackets or shakers for cocktail mixes than swords or scepter.”

— Julius Evola

I have a specific routine before every match. I like to grip my rackets, because I feel that someone else won't do it how…

— Madison Keys

I've always had an obsession with rackets.

— Evonne Goolagong Cawley

Twenty years ago, you'd see guys busting rackets in locker rooms. Today they do it in their hotel rooms.

— Brad Gilbert

The Victorians pioneered numbers of commercial rackets about which their descendants complain (the manufacturers of Bovril, it appears, were virtually official sponsors of the…

— D. J. Taylor

My mom used to play, so she had rackets around the house. We hit on the garage door for a little while, and then…

— Jack Sock

Before I was 12 years old, I broke six or seven rackets, which is a lot.

— Aryna Sabalenka

I broke all my rackets. I didn't have a racket for the fifth set. I broke four. Now I hold the record. Now I…

— Nikolay Davydenko

My rackets are run on strictly American lines and they're going to stay that way.

— Al Capone

Yes, I hit with heavy top-spin, but when you look at the little rackets I played with, the Maxply Dunlop, you had to hit…

— Rod Laver

“Are you high, or did you get some sleep?”

— Nely Cab

I'm proud that I was able to start with nothing, plan it, and have it work as perfectly as it did... I sleep clearly…

— Paul Tibbets

“I did not sleep well that night. I was not used to having the power to affect someone’s life so and did not easily…

— Tracy Chevalier

“White-flowered shrubs thickened around her and so did sleep; it directed her limbs. Lie down now, sleep said sweetly. Lie down. These are the…

— Helen Oyeyemi