Tennis Quotes · Page 39

“Near Shepherd’s Bush two thousand Beta-Minus mixed doubles were playing Riemann-surface tennis.”

— Aldous Huxley

In tennis you are playing against someone that wants the same as you. To win.

— Carlos Alcaraz

The women tennis pros don't really want equal pay for equal work. They want equal pay for inferior work.

— Stephen Moore

In a sport that's as close as tennis, I feel like anything that you can do to give yourself an edge is…

— Kevin Anderson

I carried through well with my tennis. I got the respect by usage of the tennis racket.

— Gabriela Sabatini

I know I'm good at tennis. Other than that, everything else is a wild card. I'm a wild card.

— Venus Williams

Of course it's tough to reach the number one place and also winning grand slams.

— Angelique Kerber

I was super sporty in high school. I played tennis, field hockey, and lacrosse.

— Devon Windsor

There are people who love you and people who hate you, but for me, more so, people only think they know me…

— Lleyton Hewitt

Changing public perceptions is important. Nobody bats an eyelid in a team sport when a player gets injured and is still getting…

— Kevin Anderson

That's what I would like to do until the end of time, to go on scribbling my articles on the third floor…

— Paul Samuelson

Ronnie O'Sullivan, the greatest snooker player ever, will tell you that he doesn't practise. I'm not having that. I call him Roger,…

— Jimmy White

I play enough tennis during the year; I'm sick of it by the time I get home. So the last thing I…

— Nick Kyrgios

My mom told me to cover up my arms ever since I was little because I was muscular. She wanted me to…

— Martina Navratilova

Sometimes I feel like tap-dancing, screeching, unscrewing light bulbs, pulling curtains, combing hair, doing knee bends, handstands and turning somersaults out there.

— Ilie Nastase

During high school, I would purposely lose tennis and squash matches to escape the agony of anxiety that competitive situations would provoke…

— Scott Stossel

People in tennis, they've been in a certain bubble for so long they don't even know who they are, because obviously it's…

— Frances Tiafoe

I've felt it (shoulder soreness) since the first day I came, but more so now. Yesterday in the doubles I felt like…

— Marat Safin

My great grandfather from my father's side, Sir Akbar Hydari, was the prime minister of the Nizam of Hyderabad. He was instrumental…

— Aditi Rao Hydari

“To beat me, you had to break my serve, which did not break as easily as it had before. That's when I…

— Maria Sharapova

I think no matter what you do you go through stages when you play. There was a number of times when I…

— Jana Novotna

John McEnroe...was arguably the best serve-and-volley man of all time, but then McEnroe was an exception to pretty much every predictive norm…

— David Foster Wallace

The answer to this riddle has a hole in the middle, And some have been known to fall in it. In tennis…

— Trenton Lee Stewart

You learn to see by practice. It's Just like playing tennis, you get better the more you play. The more you look…

— Eliot Porter

Tennis doesn't owe me anything. Tennis is one of the fairest sports. It's given me so many extraordinary feelings.

— David Ferrer

I just can't believe the 'era of Serena' on the tennis court is over. I mean, it's just hard to picture tennis…

— Jessica Pegula

I'm trying to enjoy my lie as much as I can and I know that tennis hopefully is going to be my…

— Novak Djokovic

Being a doubles player, without any support, we don't have any godfathers in doubles.

— Jwala Gutta

A lot of guys sometimes, you know, you might see them get angry at a line call, and suddenly they start playing…

— Kevin Anderson

I won my second Grand Slam in one year. That is the best year in my career.

— Angelique Kerber

The tennis wasn't really very much on my mind, so it wasn't like I was thinking about it all the time.

— Steffi Graf

A thousand books on tennis won’t improve your serve, but a thousand serves will.

— Rick DeMarinis

Serena Williams has always been my idol... and Venus. They are the reason why I wanted to pick up a tennis racket.

— Coco Gauff

I don't think, that you can always - you can ever - get your game to perfection, you know. Only if you're…

— Novak Djokovic

Andre Sa is playing close to his potential - maybe even above it.

— Boris Becker

I'm super, super casual. I like boxer shorts or jeans or tank tops, tennis shoes and flip flops. That's about it for…

— Shannon Elizabeth

It was all right until the sun came out and then everything started getting warmer.

— Jo Durie

You don't need to know who's playing on the White House tennis court to be a good president

— James Baker

I love Serena [Williams]. Seeing what Serena's done in her field has been incredible.

— Tom Brady

A G.O.A.T, to me, is not who wins the most grand slams. It's about what you say, what you stand for and…

— Dylan Alcott