I saw Kyrgios down in Australia. He played some very good tennis, won two or three matches, and has done the same here at Wimbledon. I think Australia’s got a good prospect in Kyrgios.
No matter what happens, tennis is still tennis: You can see a lot of great matches, a lot of new people.
The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I’ll never be as good as a wall.
I love tennis, but the main thing in my life, is life.
Politicians who wear little tennis socks with the balls at the back should not be taken seriously.
I was always in the tennis business-from 1968. I was in tournaments and also on World Team Tennis teams as well.
I’ve got my advanced scuba diving license. I’m playing tennis and exercising. I ride my bike everywhere. I’ve been finding new things. I’ve been more creative in music and doing different videos. And just meeting different people and being around and present. I’m wonderful when I’m just on nothing.
The thing about tennis life is that it’s the same thing every day. You train. You come back to the hotel. You get treatment. You eat. You sleep. You get up.
I don’t think about tennis 24/7. I enjoy time on the lake at my Florida home and just being lazy on the sofa.
I was political by coming out of the womb. I was gay, and I wanted to play tennis.
I was so tired of playing tennis, so tired of traveling, of hotels, everything related to this sport.
Tennis is best of three sets, so even if I lose the first set, I still have a chance.
One of the thrills of playing at the top tennis centres of the world is to see the Indian flag go up whenever I’m participating in these events. That’s enough motivation for any Indian who has the opportunity to perform at these tournaments.
I love tennis, love it!
I’m very, very focused on my children. In fact, I’m very religious about having breakfast with them every morning, having dinner with them every evening, and spend all the weekends with them that I don’t work. So as long as I’m not traveling, I’m always with them and I go to their soccer and tennis matches.
I was in a lake in ‘Love Actually’, and I was attacked by some hideous aquatic beast and was rushed to the hospital by a man named Rafael! Something stung my elbow, and it blew up to the size of a tennis ball.
A great tennis career is something that a 15-year-old normally doesn’t have. I hope my example helps other teens believe they can accomplish things they never thought possible.
I was watching tennis on TV, and between games, they were showing a commercial for a tennis school. I wrote down the number, gave it to my mom, and said, ‘This is what I want to do.’ She thought it was a joke, but I was very stubborn, and I kept bringing it up.
I started sailing because I had to stop playing tennis so much, as I had bad knees.
I wear tennis shoes over and over again, and my black jacket. I always try to be comfortable. It’s very important to me to wear comfortable shoes, which are hard to find – beautiful and comfortable at the same time.
What I love about tennis is the gracefulness. It’s an aggressive and powerful game, but it takes touch and finesse.
I enjoy hitting tennis balls. I haven’t lost any of the innocent parts of tennis. I just do it in front of less people.
We have a lot of great lesbian role models in tennis. I mean, Martina Navratilova in her heyday was probably the greatest female athlete on the planet. Martina just kept breaking every rule. That’s a great role model.
There are lots of women tennis players, for instance, but because not many of them seem to have much personality, they’re interchangeable. You don’t have a feeling about them.
Why don’t they go back to wood racquets? Then we would see the best tennis to be played.
To play against Serena in a final is something special. You know you must play your best tennis.
It makes you also realize, ‘OK, I’m excited to play tennis, and I work really hard to be the best tennis player I think I can be,’ but I don’t waste my time on stupid stuff, you know what I mean.
I would blast AC/DC and walk out onto the tennis court and try to hit the ball hard.
I’ve been around tennis, and I have a feeling for the sport. I still play tennis, and I can still do a lot of harm to a lot of people.
I spent a whole year when I was injured just trying to get my arm back to the point where I could hit a tennis ball for more than 30 minutes a day. I’d hit for 15 minutes and it would feel as if my arm was going to fall off.
I enjoy tennis, Pilates. I read magazines and love fashion.
I’ve tried to dial my emotions down: not get too high, not get too low, try to find that even-keel tennis.
That top 100 is a big barrier that every tennis player strives to break into.
One Oxford poet confessed to me that I had been scary because I talked American and wore tennis shoes.
I started in a very small tennis club in a South American country where I never thought about becoming the best tennis player.
I have never been a fan of science fiction. For me, fiction has to explore the combinatorial possibilities of people interacting under the constraints imposed by our biology and history. When an author is free to suspend the constraints, it’s tennis without a net.
Even though there are a lot of bright tennis players out there, you still have to protect yourself and save all your mental and emotional energies for tennis.
When you put the sacred Croatia shirt on, you become another person. We have this togetherness, this unique unity – not just in football. We are exceptional in tennis, handball, basketball, water polo. If we were to hold a tournament in ping pong, all of us would be rooting for that single player.
Core strength and stability is very important to me. Tennis is all about rotation of the body and my ability to create power. I incorporate a lot of abdominal, back and glute exercises into my gym sessions.
It’s a pretty cool feeling to be the person to knock down a barrier – just like the Williams sisters did in tennis or Tiger Woods in golf.
If Davis Cup was a little bit less or once every two years, I would be more inclined to play. But the way it is now, it is too much tennis for me.
As tennis players, you are never satisfied. We are greedy as players, always want better results.
Sometimes I think the easiest way to introduce what goes into managing the expenses of a tennis career is to take a look at another pro sport and notice some of the differences.
Tennis is great, but it doesn’t necessarily define me.
Where is women’s sports prominently displayed with the men? Tennis is the only thing I can think of.
Young kids do not see tennis as a ‘fun’ sport.
In Hollywood people lie to each other and cheat each other and then go and play tennis. But I don’t want to be a tennis player.
I remember when I first started playing tennis, it was always my sister dressing me. She wanted me to look good. And then it really became a routine for me. It doesn’t consume too much of my day, but it’s something I always pay conscious attention to.
With tennis, no one’s going to give it to you. You have to be determined.
I love to promote our sport. I love grass-roots tennis. I love coaching. I love all parts of the sport. I love the business side.
Everyone knows how to play tennis, but it’s the mind that really controls everything.
All my life I’d woken up to tennis, tennis, tennis. Even if I don’t go to practise, I’m thinking about it all day.
When I was growing up, I played a lot of different sports. There was a time when I was playing field hockey, tennis, and soccer at the same time. I was actually quite good at all of those sports.
All you have to do is drive by the empty tennis courts and basketball courts and compare them to the skate parks… c’mon people, get with the program – the future is now!
Tennis is a full-time job and not just the two hours that people see when we’re on the court.
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.
Once in a while I’ll get moved to do some exercise. It’s something I long for but the biggest problem is bending down and putting my tennis shoes on. Once I go out I’m OK.
Ever since that day when I was 11 years old, and I wasn’t allowed in a photo because I wasn’t wearing a tennis skirt, I knew that I wanted to change the sport.
Tennis was a white, upper-class sport, and I wanted it to be treated like other sports were.
I grew up in the 1950s at the beginning of rock n’ roll, and would strum a tennis racket in front of the mirror.
I enjoyed the position I was in as a tennis player. I was to blame when I lost. I was to blame when I won. And I really like that, because I played soccer a lot too, and I couldn’t stand it when I had to blame it on the goalkeeper.
After almost 30 years of playing this sport, I’ve learned something. I’ve learned that, no matter what happens, or happened… or where you are, or where you’ve been… at the end of the day: tennis is tennis. It’s always, always tennis. And there’s nothing better.
I grew up on a wide range of stuff. OutKast, they been around for over 20 years, and some of the L.A. cats like Defari, Dilated Peoples and Likwit Crew. I was always going to these shows and catching the KRS-One tennis ball, as he would throw those out, EPMD. I could go on and on.
