Best Tennis Quotes
874 Tennis quotes by 357 unique authors
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That's when you've got to grit your teeth and hang in there and try and find a way to win when you're not playing your…
— Lleyton Hewitt
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As you know, I was one of the original grunters. But Jimmy Connors used to grunt way before I was born. I never knew I…
— Monica Seles
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I'm not lucky. If I play another player, even if I don't play really good, I think I can win.
— Unknown Author
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It is very important not to think about losing.
— Venus Williams
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Everything is possible in this life...
— Marat Safin
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It's like love. When you look too hard, you don't find it. When you let it happen naturally, it comes.
— Marat Safin
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You don't think about anything because you just try to playevery game, every point. If you get some chance, you try to take this chance.
— Nikolay Davydenko
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I can't say that I was my happiest on court, but I felt completely free. Free from family obligations, free from my own torment. In…
— Jimmy Connors
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I never look back, I look forward.
— Steffi Graf
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Control the things you can control .
— Samantha Stosur
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I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I love to play.
— Boris Becker
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A smile is a curve that can straighten out a lot of problems.
— Ana Ivanovic
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He'll go down as one of the guys who changed our sport in a lot of ways, not only the way he played the game,…
— Lleyton Hewitt
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I don't care now if I ever win a match in my life again. Whatever I do in my life, wherever I go, I'm going…
— Goran Ivanisevic
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There were many occasions in my career where I could have given up, where I asked myself whether I would ever make it.
— Amelie Mauresmo
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I'm the sort of person who keeps a lot to myself.
— Patrick Rafter
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When you start from nothing, when you come from nothing, it makes you hungry. I am proud of where I came from and I know…
— Maria Sharapova
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The great part about tennis is you can't run out the clock.... As long as we were still playing, I had a chance.
— Andre Agassi
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The roughest thing I ever said to an umpire was, 'Are you sure?'
— Rod Laver
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He's a haircut and a forehand.
— Ivan Lendl
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I think when you start to do well and get your confidence back, everything becomes more fun. When you're playing with not your full capacity…
— Lindsay Davenport
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The ball is round, the game is long.
— Bjorn Borg
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You don't have to hate your opponents to beat them.
— Kim Clijsters
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I felt better being in the background. That's the way I like it.
— Stefan Edberg
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I have always considered tennis as a combat in an arena between two gladiators who have their racquets and their courage as their weapons.
— Yannick Noah
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