Tennis Quotes

"The tennis wasn't really very much on my mind, so it wasn't like I was thinking about it all the time"

"The only way to quieten me is to invite me to a tennis match"

"Tennis lets you talk while you're playing"

"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"

Joyce Maynard, Writer

"I have this terrible dark side to my personality, which playing tennis keeps at bay"

Monica Seles, Athlete

"In corporate levels, it's all about tailoring your shirt and which tennis club you belong to and which watch you are wearing and what did you shoot last week?"

Ron Livingston, Actor

"Acting with Denzel is like playing tennis with someone that's better than you. You either play better tennis or get blown off the court"

Dean Cain, Actor

"We look for opportunities to play together including basketball, tennis, swimming, riding bikes and touch football. I try to provide a loving environment where we can play. I think that's good on so many levels - emotionally, for family interactions and, of course, physically"

Alan Thicke, Actor

"I walk my dogs. I garden a little. I play a bit of tennis. Basically when I have spare time I'm making music"

Bill Mumy, Actor

"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"

David Crane

"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"

Boris Johnson, Politician

"No, like I said, my dad was never really part of the tennis. His involvement around what I did with the tennis and with my mom and my grandparents was really not a part of my life"

Jimmy Connors, Athlete

"I would like to see it go back to the wood racquets. To see the touch put back in tennis"

Jana Novotna, Athlete

"I started when I was 8 years old, which is obviously nowadays pretty late, but I guess in my generation it was all right. I had plenty of other interests and I didn't do only tennis"

Jana Novotna, Athlete

"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"

Alice Munro, Writer

"I was very, very shy as a younger girl, just petrified of people. Tennis helped give me an identity and made me feel like somebody"

Chris Evert, Athlete

"I started tennis around age 2"

Tracy Austin, Athlete

"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"

Pete Sampras, Athlete

"I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out"

Pat Cash, Athlete

"It wasn't my tennis that made me lose, it was a lot of different things going on, high drama, high emotion"

Jennifer Capriati, Athlete

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

Jana Novotna, Athlete

"Women's tennis is two sets of rubbish that lasts only half an hour"

Pat Cash, Athlete

"In these days of modern tennis a player is as strong as his weakest stroke"

Bill Tilden, Athlete

"These girls play tennis first and foremost, the fact that many of them are very glamorous is a major bonus for any promoter"

John Lindsay, Politician

"One of the greatest joys of tennis is having a nice volley and not really keeping score, not really looking at the lines, but just catching up with each other"

Jane Kaczmarek, Actress

"When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again"

Hugo Black, Judge

"When I was younger, I was a robot. Wind her up and she plays tennis"

Chris Evert, Athlete

"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"

Chris Evert, Athlete

"Tennis is seen all around the world; if I am home or anywhere in the country, United States, people will stare"

Pete Sampras, Athlete

"I let my racket do the talking. That's what I am all about, really. I just go out and win tennis matches"

Pete Sampras, Athlete

"People know me. I'm not going to produce any cartwheels out there. I'm not going to belong on Comedy Central. I'll always be a tennis player, not a celebrity"

Pete Sampras, Athlete

"Tennis was never work for me, tennis was fun. And the tougher the battle and the longer the match, the more fun I had"

Jimmy Connors, Athlete

"Tennis is what I do and is part of who I am"

Jennifer Capriati, Athlete

"Tennis doesn't encourage any kind of intellectual development"

Jim Courier, Athlete

"I really try not to read the tennis articles, because a lot of times they're guessing at how a player is feeling, and I like to keep myself kind of open minded about how I'm feeling, rather than have someone else explain to me what's going on"

Jim Courier, Athlete

"I think no matter what you do you go through stages when you play. There was a number of times when I didn't do very well or was tired. It was too much to combine school and tennis altogether. Parents need to step in and say, take a little time off, do something fun"

Jana Novotna, Athlete

"I just wanted to play tennis. I started because I wanted to pick up another sport and then as I was slowly getting better I wanted to see how far I can go but I always wanted to be myself. I wanted to be original. I didn't want to copy anybody's style"

Jana Novotna, Athlete

"When you are very little tennis should be fun, it should be a game"

Guy Forget, Athlete

"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"

Martha Stewart, Entertainer

"In tennis, you can make a couple of mistakes and still win. Not in golf. I played three rounds in that Tahoe event, and I was drained. Mentally, not physically"

Pete Sampras, Athlete

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