Top 50 Tennis Player Quotes

If they had rankings in baseball, maybe I would have been able to do the math and figure out my chances of being a professional baseball player versus a tennis player. But that was the decision-maker for me, I just thought I was better in tennis.

The majority of people don’t even realise I was a tennis player. The older you get, the less people remember what you did before.

I think my family needs me more than anybody else, and tennis doesn’t need me anymore. I respect my wife a lot for taking all that in. She said, ‘I didn’t marry a tennis player; you’d retired.’ Now it’s time to do something else.

When I was growing up, I wanted to be a tennis player.

Team sports, there’s always some kind of sacrifice happening… A team, if we lose, if Michael Jordan has a bad night, you hang it on him a little bit… but if you lose as a tennis player, you have no one to blame but yourself, and that’s a different beast.

I’m a decent table tennis player, but if you were to put me up against any of the guys you see on television at the Olympics, I’d be lucky to get a couple of points.

This is what I’ve always wanted to do. I’ve always wanted to be a professional tennis player.

Being a 6-foot-tall tennis player is not great for a girl’s social life.

I was a tennis player in high school and college.

I work differently. I enjoy creating a space around me and not getting too high or too low. But I am continuously looking to get better – not just as a tennis player but also as a person dealing with new experiences.

Everyone needs a coach. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.

I really feel like I’m improving every day, not just as a tennis player but as a person and really becoming more mature in this big sport of tennis.

I think in the lifetime of a tennis player there are many times where you feel that tremendous confidence.

My audiences have given me lots of love as a tennis player. I hope they appreciate my passion for acting.

When I told people that I wanted to grow up to be a tennis player, they laughed at me. My dad has always been supportive, but he was laughing, too.

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. But you have to take the positive out of a defeat and go back to work. Improve to fail better.

I’ve been playing against older and stronger competition my whole life. It has made me a better tennis player and able to play against this kind of level despite their strength and experience.

I am an avid tennis player.

I am happy with being a tennis player and the choice I took when I was 12. But clearly, if I wouldn’t have been a tennis player, I would have loved to be a soccer player. But again, I am happy with the choice I made.

My parents always taught me not to be a good tennis player or the best in what I’m doing, but to be polite.

I’m very proud to be a professional tennis player. I’m really happy to be doing something that I love. With this comes responsibility, and I am honored when I am told that I have inspired someone to play tennis.

I used to play lots of sports. I used to be a good tennis player. I used to be a decent golfer.

My favorite tennis player, who I’m amazed by, is Roger Federer.

When I was five, I wanted to be a cleaning lady; when I was nine, I wanted to be the world’s number one tennis player.

Nick Kyrgios, if you don’t want to be a professional tennis player, do something else.

I’m actually a pretty good tennis player!

I started in a very small tennis club in a South American country where I never thought about becoming the best tennis player.

I am a hero worshiper. I love the number one tennis player. I love the number one baseball player. I want to see those records broken.

I actually wanted to be a tennis player.

I was being groomed to be a tennis player for sure. My grandparents and parents realised I had a natural athletic ability and if I was forced to do it, I could probably do well. But all I wanted was to play pretend.

That top 100 is a big barrier that every tennis player strives to break into.

The most challenging thing is people do see me as a tennis player, but I’ve had a lot of opportunities because I am a tennis player. And I don’t mind that.

There are a lot of hours and a lot of sacrifices you have to make to achieve your dreams as a tennis player.

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. But as you get older they both – winning and losing – get easier.

If you look at tennis, the girls have become much more attractive; they wear makeup. In my generation, you were a tennis player. It wasn’t like you had to look a certain way.

To win a gold medal at Olympic Games has long been my dream ever since I started my career as a table tennis player.

I knew I was the second-best tennis player in the state of Florida and No. 8 in the United States of America when I was 12 years old and I couldn’t tell you what I was in baseball, but I liked my chances in tennis of getting a scholarship to college.

I think that everyone that grows up and aspires to be a tennis player dreams about being in the top 10 and pushing from there and going as far as you can.

There is so much that goes in to being a good tennis player. It’s not just what you can do well on the court, it’s between the ears as well.

I don’t mind fans coming up in a friendly, respectful way. That’s all part of the fun of being a top tennis player. But if people take pictures without permission, particularly if my children are in the shot, I feel uncomfortable.

As a tennis player, you have a record, and that is what counts. I feel like I enjoyed myself, and I’m proud of what I accomplished.

I know I’m not the best tennis player there’s ever been, but calling me a loser is just ignorance.

Serena Williams is the greatest tennis player of all time, the greatest female athlete of all time, the greatest athlete of all time.

As a child, I wanted to be an athlete, a professional tennis player or something like that.

I recall waking to the realisation that I was the best table tennis player under 17 in north Manchester and parts of Bury. The satisfaction lasted for half an hour before I saw into the nothingness of things.

I’d much rather people knew me as a good tennis player than as an aboriginal who happens to play good tennis. Of course I’m proud of my race, but I don’t want to be thinking about it all the time.

Lars Ulrich is not a jazz drummer, but he grew up listening to jazz. Why? Because his father, Torben – an incredible tennis player – loved jazz. Jazz musicians used to stay at their house.

I’m an ardent tennis player. I’m like an overenthusiastic child out there and I’ve damaged my back. It’s not that it’s crippling pain, more mental anguish.

As a kid, I wanted to be a pro tennis player. I was pretty good; at the tennis academies I attended, I always ‘played up’ against older age groups.

To be a professional tennis player you need to put in these sort of hours.