Tennis Quotes · Page 57

My parents were super busy, with my dad working at Delta and my mom at a bank, but our lives became tennis.

— Christopher Eubanks

The serve is very important for my game. Also the forehand. When both are working, I'm happy.

— Juan Martin del Potro

Serena. Venus. Serena. Venus. Serena, Venus, Serena, Venus. That's all I watched growing up.

— Coco Gauff

I actually played a lot of other sports - table tennis and soccer for a long time.

— Toni Kukoc

I want to be remembered for as many tournaments as I can win and as many grand slams I can win.

— Bernard Tomic

I don't mix business with anything. I don't do business dinners. I don't do business tennis. And I don't do business squash.

— Philip Anschutz

It's really football, tennis, and golf that I watch other than hockey.

— Sidney Crosby

For the first couple of years I played really bad tennis. It was so bad that they booed me off the court

— Richard Krajicek

I have fun playing tennis and I understand that the good things from tennis go hand in hand with attention. But it's…

— Mats Wilander

Tennis court, the results, yes, it gives me a feeling of accomplishment and knowing that all the work I put in is…

— Victoria Azarenka

I am always available for selection for Davis Cup. If TA select me, then great. If TA does not select me, then…

— Bernard Tomic

You know my dad pushed me to believe that I was going to be the best. I just never thought of life…

— Andre Agassi

You have to have brilliant people to work opposite, and then it does become like a real tennis match and this is…

— Sarah Lancashire

Out on the street, you never know what you're getting, and suddenly two days later you're beating yourself in the head with…

— Johnny Depp

I really think commentating has helped me personally. But I'm a tennis player first, and commentating should still just be an opportunity.

— Christopher Eubanks

I'm hesitant to compare myself to Roger Federer in any way, but he's improved while he's in his thirties. That makes you…

— Tennys Sandgren

Somewhere out there are a few men with more innate talent at golf than Jack Nicklaus, or women with greater ability at…

— Donald Trump

I really thought to myself, 'If I'm going to do anything in this world, I am going to be the best I…

— Mark Pincus

I work out a lot, but it changes day to day. I always start out with some cardio - either a jog,…

— Ana Ivanovic

Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book. Well, Mumsy, no, not really. Your beloved large-print sagas of…

— David Mitchell

People always ask about young people like me being forced into things. I play tennis because I love it. I think Russians…

— Maria Sharapova

My reason for playing doubles is that I didnt play for a month I think doubles is a good way to practise…

— Rafael Nadal

I have finally mastered what to do with the second tennis ball. Having small hands, I was becoming terribly self-conscious about keeping…

— Erma Bombeck

It's no accident, I think, that tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love, the basic elements of tennis…

— Andre Agassi

In tennis, you strike a ball just after the rebound for the fastest return. It's the same with investment.

— Masayoshi Son

When you enter the gates of the All England Club, you can feel the history of tennis.

— Petra Kvitova

I want to be remembered as a great player, but I guess it will be as a player who got angry on…

— John McEnroe

I'd love to open a tennis school for children in my hometown of Sochi.

— Maria Sharapova

Always, in every match here at the U.S. Open, the crowd make me feels special. I really like the atmospheres down there.

— Juan Martin del Potro

I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.

— Robert Frost

You don't go home and talk about the great tennis courts that you played, but you do talk about the golf courses…

— Hank Ketcham

I think we are big believers that we can provide the answers to help grow team tennis in America and create American…

— Ilana Kloss

Family's first, and that's what matters most. We realize that our love goes deeper than the tennis game.

— Serena Williams

I think I will have a lot of chance for big tournaments, especially grand slams.

— Kei Nishikori

Martina, she's got several layers of steel out there like a cat with nine lives.

— Virginia Wade

'Oh and Oh' is a tennis term... It's a nice way of saying you took your opponent to pieces.

— Venus Williams

It's unbelievable. To be in the semis, it's just crazy. To play Serena it will be a great match.

— Kiki Bertens

It's quite clear that Virginia Wade is thriving on the pressure now that the pressure on her to do well is off .

— Harry Carpenter

I always knew that my best tennis was going to be in my late 20s.

— John Isner

I enjoy hitting tennis balls. I haven't lost any of the innocent parts of tennis. I just do it in front of…

— Andy Roddick