Tennis Quotes - Page 21

A golf course is for golf. A tennis court is for tennis. A prison camp is for escaping.

Tennis is like marrying for money. Love has nothing to do with it.

I guess I get my strength from my legs, which are also important in tennis.

I've always led a pretty simple life, with few extravagances. The money in tennis never drove me.

Tennis obviously isn't as popular as baseball in the States.

Once the US Open is over in the States, mainstream America doesn't really follow tennis, unless you are a true tennis fan.

My goal one day is to be in the same sentence as Rod Laver and Ken Rosewall.

When I committed to playing a little tennis in some exhibitions, it was the best thing for me. It got me in shape. It got me out of the house. It got me doing something I love to do.

Never steal anything so small that you'll have to go to an unpleasant city jail for it instead of a minimum-security federal tennis prison.

I always try to have something that keeps my mind relaxed, keeps my mind a little bit off tennis.

I have always valued the care for my body, and my mind and had holistic approach to life. I always thought this is utmost importance for my tennis.

I'm trying to enjoy my lie as much as I can and I know that tennis hopefully is going to be my life the next 10, 15 years.

Nobody actually played tennis in my family.

I lost to a better player who played some courageous tennis and deserved to win.

A lot is yet to be enjoyed. I'd like to stomp grapes for wine. Go to Antarctica. Have dinner with Venus Williams who is the greatest tennis player ever.

I actually enjoy working with green screen, because I can imagine all that stuff happening, and I really cut my teeth on a movie I made called "Adaptation" where I had to imagine four-page dialogue scenes with my twin brother, who was nothing more than a tennis ball and a gas stand.

Anything over-handed, I do left-handed. Like throwing a ball or serving in tennis. Otherwise, right-handed, like writing and shaving.

Healthy parakeets have the nervous energy of tennis players.

In the tennis world, there weren't a whole lot of Asians playing. You see it a little bit more now. The same can really be said for basketball.

I think Pete Sampras has really reached his peak. About the only thing he doesn't do is cook.

Working with [Kyle Chandler] in the scene was like playing tennis. You work with really talented actors, I think they make other actors look really, really good.

Challenging the truth is like playing tennis against the wall! The defeat is inevitable!

Ask any comedian, tennis player, chef. Timing is everything.

I was a very good tennis player in Ottawa, Canada - nationally ranked when I was, like, 13. Then I moved to Los Angeles when I was 15, and everyone in L.A. just killed me. I was pretty great in Canada. Not so much in Los Angeles.

As a kid, I wanted to be a pro tennis player. I was pretty good; at the tennis academies I attended, I always played up against older age groups.