Best Tennis Thoughts
874 Tennis quotes by 357 unique authors
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As a tennis player you can win and you can lose, and you have to be ready for both. I practised self-control as a kid.…
— Rafael Nadal
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I'd like to think I could have and should have won more, but that's not the point. And I was at the point where I…
— John McEnroe
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If you want to be a tennis player, then mould yourself on Roger Federer. I won three Wimbledon titles and I wish I could play…
— John McEnroe
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Nobody actually played tennis in my family.
— Novak Djokovic
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Tennis is my life, obviously; I need to focus, I need to win. But it's not the only thing. I'm not going to play forever.
— Novak Djokovic
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Tennis players we're always playing in center courts that feel like arenas. And when we get on the court and the crowd cheers your name…
— Novak Djokovic
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Its silly to say it about a tennis player, but Im an unbelievable hero in Germany. And Germany needs heroes more than any place.
— Boris Becker
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The fifth set is not about tennis, it's about nerves.
— Boris Becker
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I don't make a habit of watching tennis matches, but I try to watch all the major finals. I try to make time for that.…
— Ivan Lendl
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Flying has opened up new horizons for tennis.
— Jim Courier
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The minute you think you know everything about tennis is the minute your game starts going down the tubes.
— Jimmy Connors
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I had a great tennis career. I have no regrets. But to find peace with yourself, and to finally be with your family - I'm…
— Bjorn Borg
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I'm amazed that years after I stopped playing tennis, people still recognize me in restaurants and ask for my autograph.
— Bjorn Borg
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If you get operated, something can go wrong and you can just say bye-bye to tennis. That's what happened to a lot of soccer players…
— Marat Safin
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From now until the end of the year I would like to eke out one victory, that's my short term aim. I am sure I…
— Marat Safin
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The Olympics is not for tennis and tennis does not need the Olympics. It is not my goal in life to win a gold medal.
— Marat Safin
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It's too much pressure. You have to think match by match and moment by moment or it drives you to distraction. I'm tired of all…
— Marat Safin
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You know why I want to win? Because of 15,000 reasons inside of the tennis court.
— Marat Safin
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As a tennis player you have to get used to losing every week. Unless you win the tournament, you always go home as a loser.…
— Stan Wawrinka
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I have this terrible dark side to my personality, which playing tennis keeps at bay
— Monica Seles
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You will never have great tennis champions from England because of the cold and dark, but most of all because people only care about the…
— Monica Seles
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You don't need to know who's playing on the White House tennis court to be a good president
— James Baker
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I grew up on games like Madden and NBA Jam, then moved on to NFL 2K on Dreamcast. The game I really loved was Virtua…
— Chris Paul
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It is never too late to get into tennis! While I started playing at the age of 8 when my parents gave me a tennis…
— Samantha Stosur
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Being champion is all well and good, but you can't eat a crown.
— Althea Gibson
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