Top 615 Tennis Quotes

It’s nice I inspire the kids. tThat’s the most important thing, and more people are now playing tennis, even for fun. That’s great.

I was so horrifically bad at tennis.

You have to keep writing. It’s almost like practice, almost like tennis, that actually after a few days of not writing, first of all it makes you slightly depressed and uneasy, but it also affects the style when you start up again. You need to get the show on the road.

I just try to stay positive and focused on the tennis, not let anything get to me, like crazy questions. But I’m tough, let me tell you, tough as nails.

Teach a child to play solitaire, and she’ll be able to entertain herself when there’s no one around. Teach her tennis, and she’ll know what to do when she’s on a court. But raise her to feel comfortable in nature, and the whole planet is her home.

Another little known fact about Amazing Tennis – the computer opponents are modeled after real people. In an odd turn of events, I joined a division 3 college tennis team at age 38.

I’m actually a pretty good tennis player!

With everything else that would swirl around me when I got involved in it, tennis was my main concern.

There is a fear of emotion in tennis.

Tennis is what I’ve always wanted to do, so it is my dream to be on top.

It’s an amazing feeling: tennis is growing very quickly in Canada, and to be a big part of it is an honour.

It’s so difficult to find time besides the tennis.

All the time that I’m acting with an animated character, I’m looking at a tennis ball or sticky tape or an eyeline or a man in a green suit. There’s no real environment, just this electric green that’s blaring into your brain.

I play very tough tennis, you know.

Games like ‘Call of Duty’ and ‘NBA Baller Beats’ have so much to them. I was more of the ‘Pac-Man’ generation where we were excited to play table tennis on the TV.

I think a lot of people fail to work on their sight, even though it’s probably one of the most important sides to tennis. It’s also about reactions and concentration and focus, and I think it’s all very closely related.

I can’t bear the thought of retirement, and I haven’t prepared myself for it. I don’t play bridge, and I don’t play golf. I do play tennis, but you can’t do that every day of the week.

You don’t just have to be skilled and talented at tennis, but you have to be so physically strong.

I did everything in high school – I played tennis, I played basketball, I was in chorus, I was in the band, I even did the mascot senior year… I went to the football games, and at half-time I went across the field, met all the cheerleaders and got their numbers! The same year, I won prom king!

I can tell you that tennis is a huge motivation for me.

I never thought tennis was going to give me so much satisfaction.

After they lose, I think all tennis players go back to a specific part of the match where they wish they had done something different.

I obviously grew up on a court, but there wasn’t any, ‘All right, we’re going to name him ‘Tennis,’ and he’s going to be a professional.’

I like to go to the park with my family and friends and either play soccer, play tennis, or just go for walk.

Sometimes you’re talking to a tennis ball on a stick, and you have to imagine what is supposed to be there and trust that the editors and the animators are going to make it all convincing to the audience. You have to pull a lot from within.

I played tennis at underneath – Brooklyn Bridge? Manhattan Bridge? Williamsburg Bridge? There are courts on the Manhattan side.

I’m a huge tennis fan, so the game I play the most is ‘Top Spin.’ You really have to know how to play tennis to get good at this game – whether you want to hit a forehand or a backhand, when’s the best time to hit a slice – it’s so real.

I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis.

Tennis was always sort of a – a learning. It was a vehicle for me to discover a lot about myself. And the things that I sort of discovered at times I not only didn’t want to see it for myself but I certainly didn’t want millions of people to see it.

In 1980 I was attacked by a dog in Spain and was temporarily blinded in one eye – I thought it would end my tennis career.

Nobody actually played tennis in my family.

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

It’s more a tennis problem than a mental problem. The transition is difficult. It depends how much time you have. Playing on grass can sometimes be a bit of a lottery.

When you play sports like tennis, you’re alone, and that’s a good school for life, but it’s also a good school for life to bring your best and make those around you better, too – helping others in difficult moments.

Since a month, two months ago, you know, I’ve started hitting the ball well. I’m playing some really good tennis. That really helps. I sort of have to motivate myself to get pumped up. It really helps my game a lot.

Tennis is my dream. It is what I love. And it is what I want to be best at.

I had not picked up a tennis racket in 15 years, so I tried.

I’ll just let my tennis talk.

I’m extremely happy and extremely grateful to these stem cells. I started tennis again, and it’s going very well. I have no problem moving my arm. So I’m delighted.

If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that’s a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there’s going to be a life after tennis that’s a lot longer than your tennis life.

Seems like most of the kids today are into other sports other than tennis.

I think that tennis has been in a place for many years without any change. Davis Cup and Fed Cup has always been a very exciting platform for players because it is such an individual sport, and we get to play a team competition. We love being part of a team.

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

I rarely wear tennis shoes. I’m 5′ 8′, I hate being short.

I love tennis with a passion. I challenged Boris Becker to a match once and he said he was up for it but he never called back. I bet I could make him run around.

I’m glad that I can play the tennis that I always wish to play.

I love sports. I’ve played basketball, baseball, soccer, tennis, track and field growing up.

Like many men who play tennis, when I hit a ball into the net, I tend to look daggers at my racket, reproaching it for playing so badly when I myself have been trying so hard.

I can’t play bridge. I don’t play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn’t seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.

While in high school, I worked part time at Subway, then at the front desk of the local YMCA, then at a tennis club, until I landed an unpaid internship at ‘The Mountain View Voice,’ my hometown newspaper.

This trophy is so special in the world of tennis and it feels great.

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 was playing great tennis in the mid 80s – the type of tennis people hadn’t seen before – and I was very proud of that.

I always watch NHL, NBA, NFL games and don’t miss tennis and golf.

Those big matches, when you go through so much, are the best thing. Those matches are why you play tennis.

I work out a lot, but it changes day to day. I always start out with some cardio – either a jog, a bike ride, or footwork drills designed specifically for tennis movement. Then I do weights, but I switch the days: one day it’s upper body, the next day it’s lower body. Then I do stomach and back pretty much every day.

I think tennis was just in my genes.

I wanted to emulate my parents – Mum captained India in basketball, and Dad won a bronze in hockey in 1972 Olympics. My focus has always been to achieve excellence whether in the field of tennis, in the corporate field, in the art of acting or in motivating youngsters.

You know, I still love the innocent parts of the game. I love hitting tennis balls. I love seeing the young guys do well. I’ll still have a lot of friends to watch. I’ll miss the relationships probably the most. As time passes, I’ll probably miss the tennis more.

When you start playing tennis, you don’t imagine there’s a whole bureaucracy behind the tournaments and all of that. You just think about winning the cups.

First of all, let me say, 1:15 in the morning, for 20,000 people to still be here, I wasn’t the winner, tennis was. That’s awesome. I don’t know if I’ve ever felt so good here before.

I don’t pretend to be any different just because I win tennis matches, so hopefully brands appreciate my approach and my likeability, because it’s who I am.

Everything’s a real passion to me – my children, my family, my work, travel. I don’t play tennis, I don’t play music, but I have a great time.