Tennis Quotes · Page 38

I enjoy tennis, though don't play very often nowadays, and skiing... oh yes and swimming.

— Roger Moore

I was always in the tennis business-from 1968. I was in tournaments and also on World Team Tennis teams as well.

— Billie Jean King

My dream was always to win a grand slam, and my second dream was to be No. 1.

— Angelique Kerber

If you serve well, your volleys are going to be so much easier. It has got to do with confidence, obviously.

— Stefan Edberg

I just want to kind of go with who I am, try to do less of stupid things that don't help me…

— Daniil Medvedev

I loved dance, but tennis felt more natural to me. Dance did help with my rhythm and balance.

— Madison Keys

I think everything I do in my life I try to have fun, and I try to be creative on the tennis…

— Gael Monfils

It's good to have something outside of tennis to have focus on and take my mind off it.

— Ben Shelton

I go from being not known to being so known in the tennis world, in Canada in general. It's going to be…

— Denis Shapovalov

No one cares about the Davis Cup. How many people know I won five Davis Cups and seven majors, but that I…

— John McEnroe

I am always working out, whether I am on vacation or at home. When in La Jolla, I like to surf, play…

— Alexander Ludwig

Sometimes you have a bad day, and you're like, 'I'm over this, and I just want to play tennis,' or do another…

— Daniel Ricciardo

The fact that Slammin' Sammy couldn't win the Open made it all the more valuable for the players that did win. Gave…

— Sam Snead

Tennis players, we're travelling all year long, away from our home, and it's not easy. So we carry certain things with us…

— Stefanos Tsitsipas

My parents did everything possible. My dad has worked from eight in the morning until nine in the evening to make it…

— Sabine Lisicki

I'd also made the first tennis team. I was number two player in the school at 11 years of age and that…

— John Newcombe

When I was in grade school and we had to write papers about what we wanted to be when we grew up,…

— Chris Evert

Golf is the only sport I know of where a player pays for every mistake. A man can muff a serve in…

— Lloyd Mangrum

So I was doing well academically, and I was a well-ranked tennis player and was the apple of my handsome father's eye-and…

— Anne Lamott

I decided to practice alone because it was a challenge for me to see how much I love tennis. And making sure…

— Jo-Wilfried Tsonga

I don't go out of my way to get noticed. When I'm in Scotland it's tough, because loads of people come up…

— Andy Murray

As public schools deteriorate, the upper-middle class and wealthy send their kids to private ones. As public pools and playgrounds decay, the…

— Robert Reich

People really don't care, in some ways, that you have a family. With a high profile job like I have, they just…

— Avery Johnson

We spent the first night of our honeymoon in a country hotel, with Tudor architecture oak beams, and floors which sloped, of…

— Jean Plaidy

Once you succeed in tennis, financially you become quite well off.

— Stefan Edberg

To be in the top 10 for the first time, it's like a dream. When you start to play tennis, it's something…

— David Goffin

A smart girl is one who knows how to play tennis, golf, piano -- and dumb.

— Marilyn Monroe

In the U.S. I can concentrate all the time on playing tennis, doing my training and all the important stuff.

— Kei Nishikori

In my professional tennis career, I had much more success in doubles.

— Ilana Kloss

Thousands of time I've won the Open Championship in my mind. This is probably the one I've dreamed about the most.

— Justin Rose

Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.

— Venus Williams

Hopefully I can just have another terrible year with only the one Grand Slam and that will be just fine.

— Roger Federer

New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and…

— Jimmy Connors

I know I'm not the best tennis player there's ever been, but calling me a loser is just ignorance.

— Tim Henman

Tennis needs some different personalities and a lot more emotions.

— Frances Tiafoe

Getting to the semifinal of the U.S. Open, I have to be 100 percent.

— Kei Nishikori

There's no question that professional tennis in Orange County, and even in L.A., has not done well.

— Ilana Kloss

My parents were into tennis so they knew - my mom especially - how the whole thing works, and the sacrifices you…

— Stefanos Tsitsipas

Sometimes you're looking to play perfect tennis but it's not going to happen all the time and you have to accept it.

— Andy Murray

Yeah, certainly you want to try to save your energy at a Grand Slam.

— John Isner