Tennis Quotes - Page 3

Borg's won Wimbledon four straight times and out there he has just lost an 18-16 tie breaker. You'd think maybe once he'd let up and say forget it. But oh, no way.

Rather than viewing a brief relapse back to inactivity as a failure, treat it as a challenge and try to get back on track as soon as possible.

For me, losing a tennis match isn't failure, it's research.

I haven't lost a war. No one got killed. I just lost a tennis match.

I never look back, I look forward.

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.

Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it.

In the sports arena I would say there is nothing like training and preparation. You have to train your mind as much as your body.

It's pretty hard being a tennis player and Mother Theresa at the same time and that's just the way it is.

Duffers who consistently shank their balls are urged to buy and study Shanks - No Thanks by R.K. Hoffman, or in extreme cases, M.S. Howard's excellent Tennis for Beginners.

Every day two million Americans play tennis and one million of them lose.

You can't measure success if you have never failed.

Cristiano reminds me of German tennis player Michael Stich. He was destined to make history, but then Boris Becker showed up. Cristiano is so fast, so strong, so incredible, but he has one problem: Leo Messi.

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.

You'll hear a lot of applause in your life, but none will mean more to you than that applause from your peers. I hope each of you hears that at the end.

I'm a perfectionist. I'm pretty much insatiable. I feel there's so many things I can improve on.

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.

Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.

I want to play tennis and fornicate.

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.

I want my tennis to speak for everything.

Everything is possible in this life.

You have to block everything out and be extremely focused and be relaxed and mellow too.

I think I've already got the main thing I've always wanted, which is to be somebody, to have an identify. I'm Althea Gibson, the tennis champion. I hope it makes me happy.

When you walk on a court, clear your mind of everything unrelated to the goal of playing the match as well as you can.