Tennis Quotes · Page 47

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

— Bernard Tomic

Those are the titles you play for, so I'd like to have a Grand Slam title in my life, and I'll do…

— Karolina Pliskova

I was political by coming out of the womb. I was gay, and I wanted to play tennis.

— Martina Navratilova

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

— Rafael Nadal

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

— Garbine Muguruza

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

At Wimbledon if it is slightly wet you don't even play the match. At the French Open you need to just get…

— Mats Wilander

When I was 4 my mother got divorced and we were very close to each other. I always wanted to be with…

— Martina Hingis

When I'm playing my best, like I was at the U.S. Open, I feel on top of the match and able to…

— Samantha Stosur

I remember playing that tennis game with the two sticks, 'Pong.' That was crazy when I first saw it. It's funny to…

— Ben Wallace

I think tennis is very different than most of the other sports when you have the opportunity to go pro. For me,…

— Katrina Adams

What happened to equal opportunity? Not just in tennis, but everything. It's something that Billie Jean King fought for and she played…

— Evonne Goolagong Cawley

“Do you play tennis? Anarchists play a lot of tennis. And Counts do too. Counts and anarchists are the kind of people…

— Unai Elorriaga

I can't imagine what it is like for Andy Murray. Tennis is about winning. He spends 90 per cent of his time…

— Paul Casey

A lot of 'Stranger Things' is having to be able to, in your mind, turn a little tennis ball into a huge…

— Noah Schnapp

It is never too late to get into tennis! While I started playing at the age of 8 when my parents gave…

— Samantha Stosur

There are going to be new people coming to tennis who are just going to read in Wikipedia what were the results.…

— Daniil Medvedev

I am always working on the go. I have never had an office that I work out of and work has become…

— Richard Branson

When I was seven or eight, I was bailing out on everything inside. My father's pitching to me in the backyard. He…

— Chipper Jones

I don't know if tennis players feel like that but when you have a great opponent - although I didn't feel like…

— John Leguizamo

I don't look back too much in my life. I like to think about the present and the future more than the…

— Daniil Medvedev

You also can understand how to play tennis from Serena Williams, and she is awesome. I haven't seen her Masterclass but just…

— Werner Herzog

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

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

— Andy Roddick

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

— Anna Kournikova

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

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

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

— Dylan Alcott

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

— Venus Williams

I hope that I have accomplished just one thing: that I have been a credit to tennis and my country.

— Althea Gibson

It wasn't my tennis that made me lose, it was a lot of different things going on, high drama, high emotion.

— Jennifer Capriati

I love playing college tennis, but I've definitely had the most fun playing in these pro events.

— Ben Shelton

I'm one of those guys if I'm 100 percent and fit and ready for the tournament, I play very good tennis.

— Bernard Tomic

I admire Serena Williams, because, I mean, who doesn't admire Serena Williams?

— Johanna Konta