Tennis Quotes - Page 9

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

I've stayed calm when I'm winning and I've stayed calm when I've lost. Tennis is a sport where we have a lot of tournaments every week, so you can't celebrate a lot when you have big victories, and you cannot get too down when you're losing, as in a few days you'll be in the next tournament and you'll have to be ready with that.

The tennis world is constantly changing. What's true today may be wrong tomorrow. If you don't make progress, others will and you will be overtaken.

My father had never watched tennis, never liked tennis too much. He said, 'OK, we buy a racket, we watch together,' because we didn't know anything. It was a process of learning together that made it more interesting.

I did realize more than ever, after the stabbing, that tennis is a business - a tough business.

You can't be considered a great player unless you win Wimbledon. That's the way it is.

Tennis has given me soul.

When you start from nothing, when you come from nothing, it makes you hungry. I am proud of where I came from and I know what I want. I want to win.

If I was the type of person who had tennis, tennis, tennis all the time and I went to bed and ended up dreaming about tennis, I would go nuts.

Business is like tennis. Those who serve well win.

Your game is only as good as your second serve

This tennis world, this tennis community, is very much a bubble, and it's very easy to get lost in here. You know, there is a real world out there still.

The minute you think you know everything about tennis is the minute your game starts going down the tubes.

Too many people asking too many questions in tennis. Golf is better.

while it's true in tennis, love is zero. but zero is also where everything starts. nothing would ever be born if we didn't depart from there. nothing would be ever achieved.

The Human Species could have been great but instead we became satisfied with lights on our tennis shoes.

I rarely wear tennis shoes. I'm 5' 8', I hate being short.

Tennis is like a wonderful, longstanding relationship with a husband. Golf is a tempestuous, lousy lover; it's totally unpredicatable, a constant surprise.

Power thrills, consistency kills.

When I play, I feel like in a theatre, why should I look ugly then, because I'm a tennis player?

Martina, she's got several layers of steel out there like a cat with nine lives.

When I am playing well I think I play such boring tennis.

Winners aren't popular, losers often are.

I didn't play my best but I won. He was a lucky loser but I think he went out of luck today.

In lawn tennis mixed, the basic chivalry move is to pretend to serve less fiercely to the woman than to the man. This is particularly useful if your first service tends to be out in any case.