Tennis Quotes · Page 29

I always had a powerful serve. It's one of the best in women's tennis. It's very good to have a weapon like…

— Li Na

I want to have lots of bodyguards around me and be surrounded by beautiful women while watching my brother play at Wimbledon.

— Alex Pettyfer

I certainly had a lot of fun during my career playing tennis, doing the thing I wanted to do and to do…

— Evonne Goolagong Cawley

I would be wasting my life if I won 20 grand slams and that's all I did.

— Dylan Alcott

I learnt tennis, swimming, basketball and several others, but the sport I loved the most was golf.

— Rakul Preet Singh

Serena's arguably the best athlete of all time, so getting to know her was surreal.

— Frances Tiafoe

I never close my mind to anything and eventually want to branch out. But for now, tennis is still number one for…

— Serena Williams

There's things in the life that should be more important than just tennis.

— Petra Kvitova

When I play tennis, it's where I kind of forget about everything else. Once I get out there, I'm really not thinking…

— Jessica Pegula

I am really proud of other things in my career: being in the top five, reaching the final of a grand slam…

— Robin Soderling

I really try not to read the tennis articles, because a lot of times they're guessing at how a player is feeling,…

— Jim Courier

It is like a Davis Cup or a Federation Cup match in that way but instead of cheering for your country you…

— Ilana Kloss

Winning a Grand Slam doubles title is definitely a huge goal for us and something we really want. We also use it…

— Jessica Pegula

I'm not saying I'm something special. I might play a little better tennis than other people, but it is because I was…

— Martina Hingis

“He was working that charm right now on the trainer who kneeled before him and touched his thigh as though it were…

— A.G. Starling

Clay court is a very tactical surface, I believe. It gives you time to really structure your point, give some shape and…

— Stefanos Tsitsipas

“When we plant a rose seed in the earth, we notice that it is small, but we do not criticize it as…

— W. Timothy Gallwey

Summer I was 13, my grandfather and my father taught me how to play golf. I took lessons that summer, and I…

— Thomas Gibson

I got to play in a crowd, play in Wimbledon finals, be the guy on a Davis Cup team for a while.…

— Andy Roddick

My sophomore English teacher encouraged me to write for the school paper, and that's what got me started. Suddenly it struck me…

— Jonathan Ames

To me, Dan Evans is an example of somebody that puts the clock back a little bit and tells everybody: 'Listen, tennis…

— Mats Wilander

Our idea of fun wasn't going to Disney World. It was, you want to play basketball, go outside, and make a goal.…

— Booger McFarland

“Here’s the ultimate glitch in his argument. If you extrapolate logically from John McEnroe’s suggestion that 699 people are better at tennis…

— The Guardian

For sure, with golf it's not a physically demanding sport like tennis. That's what makes tennis great - you combine both things.…

— Rafael Nadal

For my fifth birthday, I got a small tennis racket. That's how I started.

— Ana Ivanovic

Venus hasn't been to the semis for a couple of years in a Grand Slam - she's been coming back from injury.

— Tracy Austin

Tennis is mostly mental. You win or lose the match before you even go out there.

— Venus Williams

It's been the most important thing to me, is to be a good person first, tennis comes second.

— Dylan Alcott

If we push for the children to know tennis, they have the chance to like it.

— Garbine Muguruza

If somebody says I am better than Roger, I think this person doesn't know anything about tennis.

— Rafael Nadal

It's important to promote tennis in inner city schools so kids in those areas have access to the sport.

— Tim Henman

You can't be considered a great player unless you win Wimbledon. That's the way it is.

— Mats Wilander

Politicians who wear little tennis socks with the balls at the back should not be taken seriously.

— Mo Rocca

If I'm going to be out there, I want to be in the top 10 and really have a chance of winning…

— Stefan Edberg

When I play, I feel like in a theatre, why should I look ugly then, because I'm a tennis player?

— Anna Kournikova

I think the medical term for the injury is 'the bottom of my ass hurts.'

— Andy Roddick

I'm playing great tennis. I'm enjoying the tour, having fun with the fans off the court. I'm loving it now.

— Roger Federer

I believe I have quality, and that's why I won a grand slam, so I know I can do it again.

— Ana Ivanovic

In the States, tennis is sixth or seventh on the totem pole as far as sports go.

— Andy Roddick

I didn't know any life apart from tennis since I was eight years old.

— Bernard Tomic