Best Tennis Sayings
874 Tennis quotes by 357 unique authors
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I made it look so easy on court all those years. No one realized how hard I had to work. No one realized how much…
— Pete Sampras
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What rivalry? I win all the matches.
— Martina Hingis
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Tennis has given me soul.
— Martina Navratilova
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Sometimes I wish I could have been a bit more relaxed, but then I wouldn't have been the same player.
— Steffi Graf
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Every time I hit the ball on the wall I uses to pretend I was there (Wimbledon). When I went to sleep I used to…
— Evonne Goolagong Cawley
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Tennis is more than just a sport. It's an art, like the ballet. Or like a performance in the theater. When I step on the…
— Bill Tilden
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All that proves is that most of the world is too poor to build bowling alleys, golf courses, tennis courts and baseball fields. There's hundreds…
— Mike Royko
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If you screw things up in tennis, it's 15-love. If you screw up in boxing, it's your ass.
— Randall "Tex" Cobb
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I used to travel in tennis shoes; I am just not allowed to anymore. I'm an old hippie from San Francisco.
— Amy Irving
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The world's No. 1 tennis player spends 90 percent of his time winning, while the world's No. 1 golfer spends 90 percent of his time…
— David Feherty
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For me, losing a tennis match isn't failure, it's research.
— Billie Jean King
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I tell you what really fries my ass. When somebody gets on me for the way I look. Fat. Overweight. Well, I may be overweight.…
— Bobby Knight
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I did realize more than ever, after the stabbing, that tennis is a business - a tough business.
— Monica Seles
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I let my racket do the talking. That's what I am all about, really. I just go out and win tennis matches.
— Pete Sampras
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I never thought tennis was going to give me so much satisfaction.
— Gabriela Sabatini
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In tennis, you can make a couple of mistakes and still win.
— Pete Sampras
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It's difficult for most people to imagine the creative process in tennis. Seemingly it's just an athletic matter of hitting the ball consistently well within…
— Virginia Wade
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It's shocking how little there is to do with tennis when you're just thinking about nothing except winning every point.
— Andre Agassi
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It's so difficult to find time besides the tennis.
— Steffi Graf
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One of the greatest joys of tennis is having a nice volley and not really keeping score, not really looking at the lines, but just…
— Jane Kaczmarek
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Tennis has to become everything to you if you're going to make it to the top. You have to live it.
— Monica Seles
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Tennis is an addiction that once it has truly hooked a man will not let him go.
— Russell Lynes
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Tennis is more than just a sport. It's an art, like the ballet. Or like a performance in the theater.
— Bill Tilden
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Tennis is so competitive. I guess that's the way it has to be.
— Monica Seles
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Tennis lets you talk while you're playing.
— Jane Kaczmarek
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