Tennis Quotes - Page 7

The only number that would ever be enough is 0. Zero pounds, zero life, size zero, double-zero, zero point. Zero in tennis is love. I finally get it.

You don't have to hate your opponents to beat them.

He [Roger Federer] is the greatest natural talent in tennis I've ever seen. I love to watch the guy play, he's an awesome talent

It's been predictable, in the sense of 'expect the unexpected'.

I've been kicked in the teeth more times in tennis than the law ought to allow.

I like things to feel a touch unfinished; sweatpants with heels, or tennis shoes with a trouser. Those things are important.

I was always rather nasty. I was willing to be friends with the Devil, just to cross the bridge.

Tennis is my dream. It is what I love. And it is what I want to be best at.

I dont play golf or tennis, I dont ski, I dont snowboard. If you love what you do, you never get enough of it.

Strangely, although they may seem worlds apart, boxing and tennis have a certain kinship. Two individuals head-to-head, probing for weakness and attacking it. Footwork, timing and stamina are essential. Just you and your opponent until one of you is beaten. There's no brain damage in tennis - although sometimes I wonder.

Winning is a way of expressing yourself.

The key to the match might have been his serving. Maybe I should have concentrated harder on watching them go by me, I don't know.

I'm going to have to pick my shots and play great tennis.

I do play tennis, but I don't really like competition. I'm supposed to be so intense, but I hate competition.

My theory is that if you buy an ice-cream cone and make it hit your mouth, you can learn to play tennis. If you stick it on your forehead, your chances aren't as good.

Sometimes I wish I could have been a bit more relaxed, but then I wouldn't have been the same player.

Always staying focused is something that's been very tough for me. I'm still working on it.

There is no substitute to taking a lot of a catches as a youngster if you want to do slip catching - you've got to catch, catch, catch. And more than doing the normal stuff, you have to vary your catching - you've got to take some catches with the tennis ball, you got to take some closer, some further away.

Throughout my career, my mind rarely wandered, and I was never sidetracked by distractions, no matter what I was going through off the court.

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.

It is very important and my success very much depends on the harmony that I feel in my private life. It is essential for me to be happy in my private life. And if it continues, I am able to continue playing tennis.

That's what you do all the hard work for, to play in situations that put your body through gruelling times. If you're not up to it, pull out.

I chose to stay with tennis and they didn't understand that at the school.

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.

I don't go out there to love my enemy. I go out there to squash him.