Tennis Quotes · Page 33

Everybody loves tennis or soccer there. That's another reason for these unbelievable tennis players from Tandil.

— Juan Martin del Potro

But I still have to practice hard if I'm going to play my best tennis.

— Anastasia Myskina

I began playing in the Pacific Coast Indoor Tennis Championships.

— Tracy Austin

Yeah, always excited to play Novak, because it's great challenge for me. Always exciting to play him. Good player.

— Kei Nishikori

Tennis is like this - sometimes when you're down, you win, sometimes when you're up, you lose.

— Peng Shuai

For me personally, I love the environment of the Australian Open and the vibe that comes with it.

— Ajla Tomljanovic

I worked hard on my serve and my forehand, but I still have a lot of things to work on.

— Juan Martin del Potro

I was getting, at like 18, 'Why haven't you won a Grand Slam yet?'

— Madison Keys

I, as a cricketer, would like to see 100 counties playing top-flight cricket, just like tennis and football. If I am alive…

— Kapil Dev

The kids know what I'm doing when I exercise, and that's powerful. So don't just tell your kids to go play outside.…

— Summer Sanders

There is so many things to do in life rather than playing tennis, so I'm sure I will find something. I just…

— Marion Bartoli

For my tennis, I think it's better balls are flying because I like to play quicker, finish the point little bit quicker…

— Kei Nishikori

In lawn tennis mixed, the basic chivalry move is to pretend to serve less fiercely to the woman than to the man.…

— Stephen Potter

As you know, I was one of the original grunters. But Jimmy Connors used to grunt way before I was born. I…

— Monica Seles

When you get a co-star with whom you can do some give-and-take, it becomes like one of those lawn tennis matches where…

— Pulkit Samrat

Sports is about balls and about heart and you don't find too many champions in any sport in the world without heart…

— Mats Wilander

After Indian Wells I sat down with my coaches and spoke about making sure my priority was to peak for the Grand…

— Andy Murray

The public examination of homosexuality in our contemporary life is still so coated with distasteful moral connotations that even a reviewer is…

— Sydney J. Harris

I get some letters from a lot of people. Sometimes it's nice, with letters from kids or from parents of kids who…

— Jo-Wilfried Tsonga

Wimbledon is not the tournament I love. I don't like how they treat the players. There are small things that don't cost…

— Marat Safin

My mother used to say, 'You gotta exercise.' She would really pound on me to exercise every day. She was very physically…

— Dick Gephardt

I was passionate about soccer. I still am. Odd, though - playing soccer always made me much more anxious than playing tennis.…

— Rafael Nadal

That $27,000 that a young player will now get just for making the main draw at the Australian Open is huge. It…

— Samantha Stosur

It's good to bring a different feel to tennis, and that's what I feel like I bring. I bring a different feel,…

— Frances Tiafoe

I'm 6ft 7in and I was a bit like a giraffe on the tennis court, though I did play at county level.

— Peter Jones

It's sometimes a bit of a lonely existence, being a top tennis player. You have just got to make many sacrifices.

— Jack Draper

I'm the kind of guy that I cannot just lock myself in the room and just think tennis for 24 hours.

— Grigor Dimitrov

It's disappointing to have lost - that's the bee's knees of it...

— Tim Henman

There is Peter Graf, Steffi's father, with his head on his chin.

— Dan Maskell

I know China are very good in table tennis. Let me see what happens in tennis. I am pretty happy with the…

— Anastasia Myskina

Tennis is only a sport, and we don't intend to get involved in politics.

— Peng Shuai

When you do something best in life, you don't really want to give that up - and for me it's tennis.

— Roger Federer

Whatever I do, I love to win. I don't care if it's tennis or ping pong, I'll kill myself to win it.

— Andy Pettitte

I won a grand slam with an Audemars Piguet on my wrist, so I feel it is a great match.

— Stan Wawrinka

I don't know why I always win third set. I think it's more mental.

— Kei Nishikori

I feel a bit awkward playing in a red shirt out at Wimbledon. But I don't dislike it.

— Roger Federer

There are many moments during a match when you are tense, wrestling with yourself. Tennis is a lesson in self-control.

— Rafael Nadal

Hopefully I can do well and I hope tennis can get bigger in Japan and Asia. That's my goal.

— Kei Nishikori

Four days a week, I do gymming, four days marital arts. Once a week I normally play lawn tennis, and once a…

— Sushant Singh Rajput

Tennis is an individual sport, and I am quite a self-conscious person.

— Andy Murray