In tennis the addict moves about a hard rectangle and seeks to ambush a fuzzy ball with a modified snow-shoe. — Elliott Chaze
It's important for the young players to practice other ball games as well, basketball or table tennis. On the tennis court, you can improve your eye through a kind of overexertion. — Rafael Nadal
I went on the courts with just a ball and a racket and a hope...and that's all I had. — Serena Williams
In the States, tennis is sixth or seventh on the totem pole as far as sports go. — Andy Roddick
Tennis has to become everything to you if you're going to make it to the top. You have to live it. — Monica Seles
Tennis is a mental game. Everyone is fit, everyone hits great forehands and backhands. — Novak Djokovic
The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I'll never be as good as a wall. — Mitch Hedberg
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
[In the modern game] you're either a clay court specialist, a grass court specialist or a hard court specialist... or you're Roger Federer... — Jimmy Connors
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 decided to play tennis not because I wanted to be a professional player, but because my parents wanted me to get involved in something so I wouldnt be running around the streets in Serbia. — Jelena Jankovic
The trouble with me is that every match I play against five opponents: umpire, crowd, ball boys, court, and myself. — Goran Ivanisevic
If you can keep playing tennis when somebody is shooting a gun down the street, that's concentration. — Serena Williams
The great part about tennis is you can't run out the clock.... As long as we were still playing, I had a chance. — Andre Agassi
Life is like a tennis game. You can't win without serving. — Arthur Ashe
Short Tennis Courts Quotes
Greatest thing in life: Winning a tennis match. Second greatest thing in life: Losing a tennis match — Jimmy Connors
I have always believed that my job is to try and give my best on the tennis courts. — Sania Mirza
As tennis players, you are never satisfied. We are greedy as players, always want better results. — Sania Mirza
Obviously, like Wembley is synonymous with tennis, snooker is synonymous with Sheffield. — Richard Caborn
I'll let the racket do the talking. — John McEnroe
Croquet is tough. People play for months because the rules are so bizarre. Those crazy English. — Jane Kaczmarek
My rackets are run on strictly American lines and they're going to stay that way. — Al Capone
What I love about tennis is that I’m better now than I was when I was 20. — Bill Ackman
A smart girl is one who knows how to play tennis, golf, piano -- and dumb. — Marilyn Monroe
Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course — Bobby Jones
A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity
Tennis Court Quotes
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
A man should never wear shorts in the city. Flip-flops and shorts in the city are never appropriate. Shorts should only be worn on the tennis court or on the beach. — Tom Ford
I could be on the court for two hours, and it felt like 10 minutes. It made time go by. — Kawhi Leonard
When I’m on the court, I feel all problems go away. — Kawhi Leonard
In my mind, I'm always the best. If I walk out on the court (and) I think the next person is better, I've already lost. — Venus Williams
I want to be remembered as a great player, but I guess it will be as a player who got angry on a tennis court. — John McEnroe
You have to believe on the court. In the end, it's mental. In these moments against a great champion like Rafa, you have to believe. It's all about stepping in and taking your chances. I always believed, but it's a process of learning. — Novak Djokovic
I made it look so easy on court all those years. No one realized how hard I had to work. No one realized how much I had to put into it. They underestimated my intensity. — Pete Sampras
I am afraid of a lot of things. A dog. I could be afraid of a dog that's upset, for example. And on the tennis courts, maybe on the outside I look fearless, but on the inside, I'm scared. There's not one player in the world who isn't nervous before matches. Especially important matches. — Rafael Nadal
Tennis is a young man's game. Until you're 25, you can play singles. From 25 to 35, you should play doubles. I won't tell you exactly how old I am, but when I played, there were 28 men on the court - just on my side of the net. — George Burns
Tennis Balls Quotes
Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust. — John Webster
I love the feel of hitting the ball hard, the pleasure of a rally. It is these things that make tennis the delightful game that it is. — Helen Wills
Try throwing a ball just once for a dog. It would be like eating only one peanut or potato chip. Try to ignore the importuning of a Golden Retriever who has brought you his tennis ball, the greatest treasure he possesses! — Roger Caras
Just the other day someone threw a bra duct-taped to a tennis ball. I just stood there, playing guitar, thinking how this was totally premeditated. Some girl sat around inventing a way to get her bra onstage from 40 rows back. — Dave Grohl
Tennis is an addiction that once it has truly hooked a man will not let him go. — Russell Lynes
Every time I hit the ball on the wall I uses to pretend I was there (Wimbledon). When I went to sleep I used to pretend I was there. — Evonne Goolagong Cawley
To act with a tennis ball and imagine it's a tentacle, or if you're in some kind of wilderness film and you go, 'Okay, we can't have a grizzly bear here, but imagine when you step over the rock there there's a grizzly bear.' I don't know. They're tough moments. — Joel Edgerton
It's one-on-one out there, man. There ain't no hiding. I can't pass the ball. — Pete Sampras
I think Pringles initial intention was to make tennis balls. But on the day that the rubber was supposed to show up, a big truckload of potatoes arrived. But Pringles is a laid back company. They said, "Screw it. Cut 'em up!" — Mitch Hedberg
Tennis Quotes
You have to believe in yourself when no one else does. — Serena Williams
Losing is not my enemy..fear of losing is my enemy. — Rafael Nadal
Pressure is a privilege - it only comes to those who earn it. — Billie Jean King
You have to believe in the long term plan you have but you need the short term goals to motivate and inspire you. — Roger Federer
I fear no one, but respect everyone. — Roger Federer
There is no way around the hard work. Embrace it. — Roger Federer
If somebody says I am better than Roger, I think this person doesn't know anything about tennis. — Rafael Nadal
My hobbies are cooking and gardening, especially growing orchids. I love soccer, my husband and I support a British team called Chelsea, and I also enjoy tennis. We have 3 cats. — Juliet Mills
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
Why do I wear tennis shoes? That's two questions. Do I wear tennis shoes? The answer to that question is, "Yes." "Why?" That's a question philosophers have been pondering for centuries. — Irwin Corey
Tennis Team Quotes
What is the single most important quality in a tennis champion? I would have to say desire, staying in there and winning matches when you are not playing that well. — John McEnroe
I have always considered tennis as a combat in an arena between two gladiators who have their racquets and their courage as their weapons. — Yannick Noah
I will do everything in my power to make sure people are aware that our team is out there fighting the good fight for the tennis fans of the United States. — Jim Courier
And it was where I learned how to play tennis and eventually became captain of the tennis team at the school and was on the Junior Davis Cup in New York City. — Sanford I. Weill
I'd have loved to have been a footballer. I was always playing football and I enjoyed it much more than tennis to begin with. It's more fun to play in a team, all the parents are there cheering you on. — Andy Murray
Why are there no great women artists?' sounds as ignorant of human geography as the query 'Why are there no Eskimo tennis teams? — Francine du Plessix Gray
There is no life for girls in team sports past
Little League. I got into tennis when I realized this, and because I
thought golf would be too slow for me, and I was too scared to swim. — Billie Jean King
It means everything, definitely. I mean, it's Wimbledon. Tennis here is tennis history. Centre Court is always great to play on. I really feel like I'm at home. I was really up and down after my title here in 2011, but I still worked hard and believed in myself, and my team believed in me as well. — Petra Kvitova
If you have team spirit you can even beat better teams. As far as team sport is concerned China might need a change in attitude in comparison to the one in table tennis. — Berti Vogts
I'd also made the first tennis team. I was number two player in the school at 11 years of age and that didn't sit very well with people. — John Newcombe
Tennis Player Quotes
Since I don't look like every other girl, it takes a while to be okay with that. To be different. But different is good. — Serena Williams
I play each point like my life depends on it. — Rafael Nadal
A lot of people now think Im a shoe. They dont even know I was a tennis player. The shoe has really taken on a life of its own, way beyond me. — Stan Smith
In tennis, it is not the opponent you fear, it is the failure itself, knowing how near you were but just out of reach. — Andy Murray
Golf is the only sport I know of where a player pays for every mistake. A man can muff a serve in tennis, miss a strike in baseball, or throw an incomplete pass in football and still have another chance to square himself. In golf, every swing counts against you. — Lloyd Mangrum
I am the greatest tennis player. The other players are like coins in my pocket that I give to a homeless man. — Novak Djokovic
Ladies, here's a hint. If you're up against a girl with big boobs, bring her to the net and make her hit backhand volleys. That's the hardest shot for the well-endowed. — Billie Jean King
It's pretty hard being a tennis player and Mother Theresa at the same time and that's just the way it is. — Maria Sharapova
As a tennis player you can win and you can lose, and you have to be ready for both. I practised self-control as a kid. But as you get older they both - winning and losing - get easier. — Rafael Nadal
The world's No. 1 tennis player spends 90 percent of his time winning, while the world's No. 1 golfer spends 90 percent of his time losing. Golfers are great losers. — David Feherty
Tennis Shoes Quotes
I love jeans, T-shirts, boots, and tennis shoes. — Ashley Benson
I used to travel in tennis shoes; I am just not allowed to anymore. I'm an old hippie from San Francisco. — Amy Irving
My personal style is really comfy: flats, tennis shoes, ponytails, no makeup. — Kristin Bauer van Straten
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
Usually, I wear tennis shoes because my feet are flat, and it hurts to wear anything other than shoes that are cushiony. — Ellen DeGeneres
I like things to feel a touch unfinished; sweatpants with heels, or tennis shoes with a trouser. Those things are important. — Jenna Lyons
Why did I lose? No reason, though you might like to know that I got tired, my ears started popping, the rubber came off my shoes, I got cramp, and I lost one of my contact lenses. Other than that I was in great shape. — Bob Lutz
The Human Species could have been great but instead we became satisfied with lights on our tennis shoes. — George Carlin
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've been spoiled being in the fashion business. My son will be like, 'Mommy, 20 new pairs of shoes came today. How come?' Because I'm always telling him it's not normal to have 20 pairs of tennis shoes to try on before school. — Gwen Stefani
Great Tennis Quotes
The mark of great sportsmen is not how good they are at their best, but how good they are their worst. — Martina Navratilova
It's not whether you win or lose - but whether I win or lose. — Sandy Lyle
I never wanted to be the great guy or the colorful guy or the interesting guy. I wanted to be the guy who won titles. — Pete Sampras
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. — Maria Sharapova
I love tennis! I've always felt like this because it is such a classy sport with a great, competitive flair to it. — Roger Federer
If you screw things up in tennis, it's 15-love. If you screw up in boxing, it's your ass. — Randall Tex Cobb
Cycling isn’t a game, it's a sport. Tough, hard and unpitying, and it requires great sacrifices. One plays football, or tennis, or hockey. One doesn’t play at cycling. — Jean de Gribaldy
You will never have great tennis champions from England because of the cold and dark, but most of all because people only care about the sport for two weeks a year, and then they're on to something else. There's just not a great love of the sport there — Monica Seles
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
I was never pegged to be the next great American tennis player by any means. I wasn't a prodigy. I'm a late bloomer. Whatever happens, I'm proud of what I've done. — John Isner
Tennis Game Quotes
I really stay busy [in retirement]. I often have to cancel my golf games on the weekends to go play in tennis tournaments. — Richard Davies
My game is a lot about footwork. If I move well, I play well. — Roger Federer
Jimmy Connors plays two tennis matches and winds up with $850,000, and Muhammad Ali fights for one bout and winds up with five million bucks. Me, I play 190 games--if you count exhibitions -- and I'm overpaid! — Johnny Bench
But it is impossible to enjoy a tennis game, a book, or a conversation unless attention is fully concentrated on the activity. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Equipment's the biggest change. And the guys have been getting bigger, stronger, more athletic - so the game has become more of a track meet instead of a tennis match, in a sense. — John McEnroe
Good shot, bad luck and hell are the five basic words to be used in a game of tennis, though these, of course, can be slightly amplified. — Virginia Graham
Family's first, and that's what matters most. We realize that our love goes deeper than the tennis game. — Serena Williams
Tennis is a traditional game. A big sport like tennis does not need too many changes. The game has become too fast, there are hardly any long, interesting rallies these days. So maybe slowing down the courts could help. But you can't really stop a sport from evolving. — Bjorn Borg
Playing (Serena) it always felt like playing a steamroller. No subtlety, no finesse, just raw, loud power. To respect this style of play was always a bit tough for me, but of course I had to, because the rules of tennis dont state that having a beautiful game is required to become No. 1. — Martina Hingis
What a polite game tennis is. The chief word in it seems to be "sorry" and admiration of each other's play crosses the net as frequently as the ball. — James M. Barrie
Basketball Court Quotes
I love playing basketball because you could be having a rough day in your life, and while you're on the court it gives you a clear mind. I'm not worried about anything. I'm there just playing freely and I go out there all and I have fun. — Derrick Rose
If you're struggling with your shooting, then do other things on the basketball court. Get steals, get assists, get rebounds-do anything on the court to help the team win. — Allen Iverson
Basketball is a beautiful game when the five players on the court play with one heartbeat. — Dean Smith
In the game of basketball, I play first off because I love it. I love to have fun. I love to run up and down the court. — Kevin Durant
What distinguishes a great player is his presence. When he goes on to the court, his presence dominates the atmosphere. — Bill Russell
I do a little sign on the court every time i make a shot or a good pass and i pound my chest and point to the sky - it symbolizes that i have a heart for God. It’s something that my mom and I came up with in college and I do it every time I step on the floor as a reminder of who i’m playing for. — Stephen Curry
If Shakespeare can compare all of life to a stage, maybe it's not odd to believe that part of the play can take place on a basketball court. — Bill Russell
The more things we can get kids to do correctly off the court, the more they will do correctly on the court. — Mike Jarvis
The more your players have to think on the basketball court, the slower their feet get. — Jerry Tarkanian
I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
All that proves is that most of the world is too poor to build bowling alleys, golf courses, tennis courts and baseball fields. There's hundreds of millions of poor people out there who still ain't got indoor plumbing, but that don't mean there's something great about an outhouse. Soccer is boring. I've never seen a more boring sport. — Mike Royko
Tennis players we're always playing in center courts that feel like arenas. And when we get on the court and the crowd cheers your name or salutes you - it's like you're a gladiator in the arena. And everyone is cheering - and you're fighting, you're screaming, during your strokes - it feels like you're an animal, fighting for your life. — Novak Djokovic
Naturally I've known girlies form an attachment to the younger male before now, but in the tennis score of the bedroom most girls in my experience would rather Love Thirty or Love Forty than Love Fifteen. Men, of course, are a whole other issue; they start at Love All and stay there until they're dragged from the court — Stephen Fry
I am very blessed to be able to play tennis, the sport that I love and very grateful for the opportunities to play in the finals of big events, when the season starts you are on the roll constantly and obliged to be committed to daily routines on and off the court. — Roger Federer
She [Dokic] left the court with a face as long as thunder. — John Inverdale
It's difficult for most people to imagine the creative process in tennis. Seemingly it's just an athletic matter of hitting the ball consistently well within the boundaries of the court. That analysis is just as specious as thinking that the difficulty in portraying King Lear on stage is learning all the lines. — Virginia Wade
I think I play tennis for, to against a big legend, big court, short time. That's what I train for. That's why every day I wake up and I wish I could play those matches, you know. It's like, for me it's the best thing can happen is to play against that guy on that stage, you know. — Gael Monfils
The fact that nobody played tennis in my family and you'd say by chance they make three tennis courts in front of the restaurant that my family owned when I was 4, I think that's a destiny. That's kind of life circumstances that kind of come together for you to become who you want to become. — Novak Djokovic
An idea has no worth at all without believable characters to implement it; a plot without characters is like a tennis court without players. Daffy Duck is to a Buck Rogers story what John McEnroe was to tennis. Personality. That is the key, the drum, the fife. Forget the plot. — Chuck Jones
Manners are manners. Jimmy Connors and Ilie Nastase have no respect. I don't want my kid seeing Nastase play. The demeanor you show on the court is important to tennis.... Maybe we (yesterday's stars) were too stereotyped. But we were told to behave or they'd take our racket away. — Rod Laver
There are people who love you and people who hate you, but for me, more so, people only think they know me by how I act or perform on a tennis court. — Lleyton Hewitt
I'm more in that Rafa Nadal high-energy high-octane mold out there. I wear that emotion on the court. That's how I play my best tennis. People either like that or not. And I can't change that: that's who I am on a tennis court. — Lleyton Hewitt
I'm a very creative person in general. I like to create stuff in my downtime off the court. If I were to tell you everything I do, you would be like, "Do you really play tennis?" — Grigor Dimitrov
I grew up on the tennis court with lots of other kids. There were like 40 kids all afternoon and I was one of the youngest ones, so I always had to chase everybody to keep up. — Martina Hingis
I'm not to eager to play tennis in my spare time. I'm more interested in doing gym work and stuff like that. We have a lot of schools and courts around where I live, so if I really want to play I don't need to go too far. — Lleyton Hewitt
It's actually what I consider legalised cheating because one of the great senses that you have on a tennis court is your ability to hear the ball come off your opponent's strings [on Sharapova grunting — John Newcombe
The primary conception of tennis is to get the ball over the net and at the same time to keep it within bounds of the court; failing this, within the borders of the neighborhood. — Elliott Chaze
He'll go down as one of the guys who changed our sport in a lot of ways, not only the way he played the game, but also the way that he conducted himself on and off the court. — Lleyton Hewitt
I did a really good job of sticking to the tennis court. — Brad Gilbert
A man will reveal his true self, or so it seems, on the tennis court. — Joyce Carol Oates
You don't go home and talk about the great tennis courts that you played, but you do talk about the golf courses you played. — Hank Ketcham
I really like the smell of the tennis balls, the new ones. I don't need to do it, but it's just my habit, what I do on the court when we change for the new tennis balls. I just smell them. Maybe it's for luck. I've been doing it all my life. — Dominika Cibulkova
You don't need to know who's playing on the White House tennis court to be a good president. A president has many roles. — James Baker
As soon as I step on the court I just try to play tennis and don't find excuses. You know, I just lost because I lost, not because my arm was sore. — Goran Ivanisevic
You don't need to know who's playing on the White House tennis court to be a good president. — James Baker
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
A surgeon might want to be the best surgeon in Manhattan, but out on Long Island on the weekend, not care at all how he is on the tennis courts or on the Ping-Pong table. Even turning your competitiveness off when it's appropriate, when other people are not being competitive, to recognize that social circumstance and, you know, cool it. That's a crucial competitive skill. — Po Bronson
You also can understand how to play tennis from Serena Williams, and she is awesome. I haven't seen her Masterclass but just watching her on the court - I saw some of Wimbledon on TV and there's such an awesome force in her and focus and determination and technique, you just look at her and it's awesome. If I would like to learn tennis I would immediately turn to her. — Werner Herzog
What distinguishes tennis is respect for one's opponent, one's conduct on the court. — Rafael Nadal
I'm always an entrepreneur, but I'd probably be a teacher. I like teaching kids, whether that's tennis on the courts or history in the classroom. — Boris Kodjoe
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