Tennis Quotes - Page 4

If I'd wanted to be an individual, I'd have taken up tennis.

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!

What rivalry? I win all the matches.

If you're working with someone who you get on with and you're supposed to hate them on the screen, then you get this playful challenge thing where you're trying to one-up each other and that's really interesting. Sometimes it can become like tennis. The harder you hit the ball back, then the harder the hit it back to you.

This [defeat] has taught me a lesson, but I'm not sure what it is.

If you're a champion, you have to have it in your heart.

You have to find it. No one else can find it for you.

I always listen, I ask children, I even ask adults in tennis, "What are your children playing?" And most of the time it's not tennis. It's pathetic.

I love tennis! I've always felt like this because it is such a classy sport with a great, competitive flair to it.

I'm focused on going out every day and doing my best.

New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up.

I never lost a tennis match, I just ran out of time

If I can't serve on grass, I can maybe help cut the grass, paint the lines and serve some strawberries.

Never give up. Take what life throws at you and throw it right back. If life keeps throwing then you have a tennis match going. Learn to like tennis.

When I'm down or maybe when it's close in the match, I feel like I'm still in it. I don't feel like I'm letting down. Mentally, I'm still really, really tough.

That's when you've got to grit your teeth and hang in there and try and find a way to win when you're not playing your best tennis - that's what I can be proud of

Tennis was always sort of a - a learning. It was a vehicle for me to discover a lot about myself.

I have always considered tennis as a combat in an arena between two gladiators who have their racquets and their courage as their weapons.

Tennis is an addiction that once it has truly hooked a man will not let him go.

The crowds are very important for tennis. It makes you play better, but it can also make you nervous and that's the beauty of it.

I often surprise myself. You can't plan some shots that go in, not unless you're on marijuana, and the only grass I'm partial to is Wimbledon's.

I used to pretend that I was Tom attacking Jerry, who was drawn on the ball

I hate to lose more than I love to win.

I don't care now if I ever win a match in my life again. Whatever I do in my life, wherever I go, I'm going to be always Wimbledon champion.

Politicians who wear little tennis socks with the balls at the back should not be taken seriously.