Top 77 Wimbledon Quotes

I am glad that Wimbledon is my last slam. I love the atmosphere and courts of SW19, and it is an addiction, which I will find tough to give up.

I think probably Wimbledon is my best chance to win a slam.

I’ve always tried to be the same person I was before I won Wimbledon, but it has been very difficult.

I’d grown up with Wimbledon, and so to play on Centre Court really was a dream come true.

Of course it’s one of my goals to win another grand slam. Wimbledon was great – so if it’s Wimbledon again, that’s fine – but I think I have the game to win the other grand slams as well.

Being able to go into Wimbledon and be part of an amazing atmosphere is special.

For me, Wimbledon is such a special tournament. I feel at home when I play there, and the grass is perfect.

Winning Wimbledon in 2011 was a bit of a surprise for everyone, including me. It was like I was in a dream, and I didn’t realise what it meant.

I love London and Wimbledon but the problem is that I’m not very good on grass, that was the hardest in the juniors for me, but the 02 should be fine as it’s on hard court.

If I hadn’t become a chef I would have loved to be a top tennis player, although I was never good enough so it wasn’t really an option. But that has never dimmed my love of the game, which started in childhood when I was lucky enough to be a ball boy at Wimbledon.

Every time I hit the ball I would pretend I was on that magical court at Wimbledon. And then every time I went to sleep at night I would dream about playing at Wimbledon one day.

When I was a child, the FA Cup was one of the crown jewels of the sporting year, along with the Grand National, Wimbledon and The Open. But with every announcement it seems to lose another piece of its identity. First it was sponsors added to the name, followed by the semi-finals at Wembley.

There’s two people I would say to try to go and watch who are probably the future of tennis. One girl called Taylor Townsend, she got a wildcard from the event into Wimbledon; she’s an American girl. On the men’s side, there’s an Australian guy called Nick Kyrgios; he’s 19, and he was the number one junior in the world.

Wimbledon feels like my second home.

I would love to do well one last time in Melbourne and my dream would be to win Wimbledon and play in the London Olympics.

I just thought at Wimbledon I was very nervous.

I will have won Wimbledon this year in 2013, and I will stop with that. It was magnificent. You will certainly see me at tournaments again, but not playing.

For me, and most of the other players, too, if you had to pick one of the four Grand Slams, you would pick Wimbledon. It’s got tradition, it’s got atmosphere, and it’s got mystique.

The most special Slam is Wimbledon, of course. But where I feel the best is Melbourne. And you’re happy that you’re playing. When you get to the middle of the season, everything is week after week, and it’s all routine. But when it’s Melbourne in January, you are fresh and you want to play. It’s nice.

My son’s dream is to win Wimbledon – I’d love that.

I did eight months of training for ‘Wimbledon,’ and then, by the time I finished the movie another four months later, I was like, ‘That’s me. I’m done with tennis.’

Maria Sharapova winning Wimbledon at 17, I don’t think that’s ever going to happen again. It’s a different game now. I need to stay focused and work on my game, and it will come.

There are too many British players who just aren’t good enough. And that’s not through lack of effort. But in terms of getting to the top 100, and getting into Wimbledon on their ranking, I feel as though there are too many players who just aren’t good enough.

To have Serena in the Wimbledon final, I think, is the hardest match you can have.

I went from not being known anywhere in the world to winning junior Wimbledon and six months later playing the Australian Open. I was a victim of my own success, really.

I’ve pretty much been portrayed as every style thing you can be. After Wimbledon you are Andy Everyman, who everybody is rooting for. I think the meat and potatoes of who I am hasn’t been covered yet.

There are so many positives and great memories I will take with me from Wimbledon 2018. It was always part of the dream to play in a Wimbledon final. It means so much for me to have played in the championship match.

Every time Wimbledon is on, I am thinking, ‘Yes, I could do the same and get out the racket.’ Sadly, not the same results.

I went to Wimbledon before I could walk. It’s just been a lifelong passion.

I think winning at Wimbledon’s huge. This is the biggest tournament in tennis for so many different reasons. You can see the history around the grounds. The Village around you, everyone lives for it.

I won the Wimbledon mixed doubles title in 1980.

Everybody loves Wimbledon, with all the tradition and everything else.

Billy Jean King could not get credit when her husband was in law school and she was winning the Wimbledon, because he had to sign the cards. You know, you had these cases in the ’70s of women who were mayors who couldn’t get credit unless their husbands signed for them.

It’s all changed now at Wimbledon. There’s just one big loo for the whole Royal Box. I don’t think we’re treated differently.

It’s always tough when you miss a Grand Slam, especially Wimbledon.

I’m at the French Open right now and enjoyable as that is, it’s only really Wimbledon that I miss from when I played elite tennis. I love that place so much, it’s so special. That’s when I say, yeah, I wish I was out there again. But then the moment passes.

My mom was a great tennis player, and I remember being six or seven years old watching Steffi Graf and Monica Seles in Wimbledon in my house. I’ve always been a tennis fan.

At Wimbledon if it is slightly wet you don’t even play the match. At the French Open you need to just get on with it and somehow adjust.

I think I can win a slam. That’s my main goal, and if I could choose one, then yes, it would have to be Wimbledon. But, honestly, I would take any one of them.

Wimbledon 2014 will be my last slam. To be honest, I am already starting to miss professional tennis, having played at the highest level for two decades. It is what has given me my identity, and I will miss every bit of the action. The thought that I will not be playing anymore is daunting.

Wimbledon heralds the unofficial start of summer.

Any quality player can adjust well to the different demands. It is like a good tennis player who is expected to adjust to the clay at the French Open, the grass at Wimbledon, the hard courts of the U.S. and the heat of the Australian Open. A professional is expected to do all that.

I can play on grass – when I won Junior Wimbledon, that was an unbelievable feeling, I could not believe that I had won the tournament, as Wimbledon is like the holy place of tennis.

I think the best match I played was against Roger Federer in the quarter-finals at Wimbledon in 2011, especially because I won this match after being two sets down.

I won Wimbledon when I was 19 and again after I had a child.

I remember when I was younger taking more pride in Wimbledon than the French. That and the U.S. Open – they were the ones I wanted to win.

If I could have played my whole career on one court it would have been the Centre Court at Wimbledon.

It is a big achievement to win a medal at the World Cup. Winning a medal is like doing well at Wimbledon, in tennis. It is one of the biggest shooting competitions in the world.

There is nothing like Wimbledon. When I think about tennis, I think about this tournament.

I trialled at Brentford in two games. I scored and assisted one. They said I was good and they’d keep an eye on me. I went to AFC Wimbledon but went back to Mitcham and signed my contract because they refused to pay my 7 registration fee.

To cry on court during a Wimbledon final, you must feel so lonely.

I sincerely hope AFC Wimbledon find the right candidate for their football club. The whole point about them not being able to afford me is nothing to do with money, but everything to do with the fact that I’m in the best job in the world. No amount of money is going to tempt me away from that.

I was like, ‘I’m going to win Wimbledon!’ I was crazy competitive, leg-slapping, all of that. But when I was 12, I saw ‘What’s Eating Gilbert Grape,’ and it just opened my eyes to what movies can do and how they change us, and I was like, ‘This is what I want to do. This is what I have to do.’

But, then, Sampras won Wimbledon six times and that automatically puts him among the greatest.

When you step out on the grounds of Wimbledon, you feel that respect, you feel that heritage, feel the history.

Wimbledon is a special place for me in so many ways and I feel privileged to have been such a big part of it over the years.

Beating Roger Federer is a match I will remember for years to come. All my respect to him. Federer is arguably the greatest player to have ever played our sport, so beating him at Wimbledon was really special.