Tennis Quotes

It is hard to compete with other sports. Badminton is a sport which, when compared with football and tennis, still needs promotion.

~ Lin Dan

Tennis has been around for so long - women have been playing the majors since the 1800s. Other sports have not had professional leagues for women for as long.

~ Venus Williams

Tennis is definitely a star for women in sports.

~ Venus Williams

Tennis was a white, upper-class sport, and I wanted it to be treated like other sports were.

~ John Mcenroe

Where is women's sports prominently displayed with the men? Tennis is the only thing I can think of.

~ Ronda Rousey

In tennis, you can have a bad set and still win. The part of track cycling that is difficult to find in other sports is that it's so final; there's no second chance if you make a mistake.

~ Victoria Pendleton

Team sports aren't my thing. I find it easier to pick something up if I can do it at my own speed. And you don't need a partner to go running, you don't need a particular place, like in tennis, just a pair of trainers.

~ Haruki Murakami

I can teach many sports, but obviously, tennis is the one. When you do other sports, you see things from different perspectives: different footwork drills, body positions, angles and geometry. All that stuff is helpful, and so when I do other sports, I can see things, because once you know one sport, then the other sport becomes more clear.

~ Martina Navratilova

Boxing, mixed martial arts and tennis are the hardest sports to train for.

~ Andy Murray

If you offer athletes stipends, then you're into pay-for-play, and that's the ballgame. People should realize that, and they should realize that amateurism never has been a sustainable model for a sports-entertainment industry. It wasn't in tennis. It wasn't in the Olympics. And it's not in big-time college sports.

~ Charlie Pierce

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

Tennis and golf are best played, not watched.

~ Roger Kahn

I worked as a draftsman for the Department of Environmental Protection, and as a teacher, in N.Y.C.; at a big bank and a small ad agency, a tiny law firm and a few giant ones; as a cashier and a dishwasher; preparing deli sandwiches and stringing tennis racquets and pruning evergreens into conical Christmas-tree shapes.

~ Chris Pavone

Tennis takes care of everything. It requires agility and quickness to get to the ball, core strength to get power into your shorts and stamina to last for an entire match. In addition to toning your arms and shoulders, it's a total body workout for your legs and abs, and works your heart and core unlike any other sport.

~ Samantha Stosur

I took high school very casually. There was Teen Town, chess, tennis, boxing, running. Lots of things going on.

~ Robert Mundell

Stop trying to treat music like it's a tennis shoe, something to be branded. If the music industry wants to save money, they should take a look at some of their six-figure executive expense accounts. All those lawsuits can't be cheap, either.

~ Jeff Tweedy

I was passionate about soccer. I still am. Odd, though - playing soccer always made me much more anxious than playing tennis. On soccer days, I'd be out of bed by 6 in the morning, all nervous. But I was always calm when it was time for a tennis match. I still don't know why.

~ Rafael Nadal

Tennis just a game, family is forever.

~ Serena Williams

When you do something best in life, you don't really want to give that up - and for me it's tennis.

~ Roger Federer

You always want to win. That is why you play tennis, because you love the sport and try to be the best you can at it.

~ Roger Federer

Tennis is mostly mental. Of course, you must have a lot of physical skill, but you can't play tennis well and not be a good thinker. You win or lose the match before you even go out there.

~ Venus Williams

I have a passion for playing tennis and enjoy the workload and struggles of performing in this amazing global sport.

~ Sania Mirza

While I'm more of a soccer and tennis fan myself, I still enjoying catching some football games when I get the chance.

~ Marcus Samuelsson

I'm a big fan of the 'Rocky' series. Given the chance, I'd love to meet Sylvester Stallone. But apart from boxing, I'm an ardent fan of tennis and football.

~ Vijender Singh

It's very expensive to be a professional tennis player with all the travel and the flights and the hotels and everything.

~ Caroline Wozniacki

I like playing tennis. I've always enjoyed the process of being a tennis player; I'm just not sure that I enjoyed the travel at the end, and my body didn't recover from the day-to-day grind.

~ Andy Roddick

Tennis has had a very positive impact on my life.

~ Gabriela Sabatini

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.

~ Venus Williams

I got my first tennis racket on my seventh birthday. And because we had a tennis court in our backyard, I played every day. By ten I was playing competitively.

~ Tullian Tchividjian

Hollywood is a boys' club, and that's something I thought was a stereotype - and it's not. That really shocked me. Still shocks me. Everyone's helping their buddies out and pressing their buddies and playing tennis with their buddies and making movies with their buddies, and that grosses me out.

~ Emily Ratajkowski

I help design my own tennis clothes.

~ Maria Sharapova

I felt sad because everyday I had to wake up early to practice before going to school. After school I had to go back to tennis again, and then after tennis I had homework. I didn't have time to play.

~ Li Na

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.

~ Tom Brady

My mom told me to cover up my arms ever since I was little because I was muscular. She wanted me to be feminine, which did not come easy to me. My body was what it was, and I worked it to be a better tennis player.

~ Martina Navratilova

My first job was in sixth grade, sweeping the clay tennis courts at the yacht club near my house, which I was not a member of. Always had to pay my own rent. But I don't really have any concept of how money works. I don't know how much things cost. Like a BMW. Or a quart of milk. It's embarrassing.

~ Chloe Sevigny

I do a lot of biking. I need that mileage and the long-distance stuff because tennis demands it. My fitness trainer is always trying to convince me to do an Ironman. I can probably run the marathon, I can make the 112 miles on the bike, but I will never swim for 2.4 miles. I will die after 100 meters.

~ Tomas Berdych

Fitness is defined differently by everyone, but for me, the most important thing is being healthy. As tennis players, what we do is not the healthiest thing. We almost abuse our bodies.

~ Sania Mirza

I train Monday through Saturday. I usually have fitness training for 90 minutes, then I'm on the tennis court for 3 to 4 hours.

~ Sloane Stephens

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.

~ David Soul

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.

~ Andy Roddick