Tennis was a game invented by a woman named Samantha Tennis in 1839, in the village of Lobsworth, County of Kent, as a diversion for the wealthy and titled Englishmen of the region, who had nothing better to do at the time but drink, belch and wear funny clothes.
I don't like anything that's "just an escape." To me the best part of golf is that, unlike my tennis game, I can actually get better. I've probably reached my plateau in tennis, but in golf I have a lot of room for improvement. I really enjoy working on my game. I like practicing. I chart my rounds.
In tennis, at the end of the day you're a winner or a loser. You know exactly where you stand... I don't need that anymore. I don't need my happiness, my well-being, to be based on winning and losing.
Ninety percent of my game is mental. It's my concentration that has gotten me this far. I won't even call a friend on the day of a match. I'm scared of disrupting my concentration. I don't allow any competition with tennis.
When I was younger, I was a robot. Wind her up and she plays tennis.
Tennis has to be very careful.Not everyone is a computer, it is very good we have John McEnroe. I hope we have a couple more.
Tennis is more than just a sport. It's an art, like the ballet. Or like a performance in the theater.
Those two volleys really could be the story of this match summed up at the end of it.
Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
Almost everybody's here doing the same thing. Who am I to come up with an excuse when there's 64 other players here doing the same thing? 63 others, sorry.
Sex doesn't interfere with your tennis; it's staying out all night trying to find it that affects your tennis.
My feelings are Yevgeny Kafelnikov should take his prize money when he is done here and go and buy some perspective.
Tennis is a very objective sport in the sense that the scoreboard doesn't lie.
My only good result in 1997 was marrying Brooke Shields.
Tennis was always sort of a - a learning. It was a vehicle for me to discover a lot about myself. And the things that I sort of discovered at times I not only didn't want to see it for myself but I certainly didn't want millions of people to see it.
There were many occasions in my career where I could have given up, where I asked myself whether I would ever make it.
At the end I couldn't hear what the Queen was saying to me. But it was just great to see her lips moving.
She [Monica Seles] has so much control of the racket with those double-handed wrists.
We don't talk about tennis. I figure she knows what she's doing. I mean, what am I going to tell her?
John McEnroe's so good. Against him, all you can do is shake hands and take a shower.
Acting is a bit like tennis in that you can't really do it on your own.
Once you succeed in tennis, financially you become quite well off.
I talked with Tom Hanks. I saw that movie 'Turner and Hooch' at least 50 times. It took all my guts to go up to him. I went up to him, I was like, 'Can I have a picture?' We talked acting; he wanted to know what I was doing. We talked a little tennis. I mean, he knew all about myself and my sister.
If someone says tennis is not feminine, I say screw it.
A thousand books on tennis won’t improve your serve, but a thousand serves will.
