Tennis Quotes - page 12

Tennis is not like other sports where the coach is hired by an independent entity, and that makes a huge difference in the dynamic. (Ivan Lendl)
I certainly don't lose any sleep if I lose a tennis match. View quote
Ivan Lendl
In tennis you move a lot. Golf you don't. In tennis, you can have a bad half-hour, but you can't in golf. You can lose the first set in tennis and still win. View quote
Ivan Lendl
Have I ever pretended to be something? I think back in college I think I might have told a girl that I was a professional tennis player once. And then, of course, she had never heard of me so I had to dig deeper. 'I'm just sort of on the playing satellites. You know, I'm kind of working my way up. I'm not ranked in the top 100 or anything.' View quote
James Roday
Seems like most of the kids today are into other sports other than tennis. View quote
Jana Novotna
I think no matter what you do you go through stages when you play. There was a number of times when I didn't do very well or was tired. It was too much to combine school and tennis altogether. Parents need to step in and say, take a little time off, do something fun. View quote
Jana Novotna
I started when I was 8 years old, which is obviously nowadays pretty late, but I guess in my generation it was all right. I had plenty of other interests and I didn't do only tennis. View quote
Jana Novotna
One of the greatest joys of tennis is having a nice volley and not really keeping score, not really looking at the lines, but just catching up with each other. View quote
Jane Kaczmarek
I'm a big sports guy - golf, tennis, baseball, basketball, snowboarding - and I love games. View quote
Jason Dohring
What I want out of tennis is not necessarily just winning. View quote
Jennifer Capriati
It wasn't my tennis that made me lose, it was a lot of different things going on, high drama, high emotion. (Jennifer Capriati)
I will do everything in my power to make sure people are aware that our team is out there fighting the good fight for the tennis fans of the United States. View quote
Jim Courier
I really try not to read the tennis articles, because a lot of times they're guessing at how a player is feeling, and I like to keep myself kind of open minded about how I'm feeling, rather than have someone else explain to me what's going on. View quote
Jim Courier
If they had rankings in baseball, maybe I would have been able to do the math and figure out my chances of being a professional baseball player versus a tennis player. But that was the decision-maker for me, I just thought I was better in tennis. View quote
Jim Courier
Tennis doesn't encourage any kind of intellectual development. View quote
Jim Courier
I love seeing tennis up close. View quote
Jim Parsons
There was never anything I wanted to do more than play tennis. Never once walked out there and thought, 'I wish I was doing something else.' Not once. View quote
Jimmy Connors
I've been kicked in the teeth more times in tennis than the law ought to allow. View quote
Jimmy Connors
With everything else that would swirl around me when I got involved in it, tennis was my main concern. View quote
Jimmy Connors
Back in East St. Louis, tennis wasn't the real thing. If you weren't playing baseball, basketball, football, you were kind of on the outside. View quote
Jimmy Connors
No, like I said, my dad was never really part of the tennis. His involvement around what I did with the tennis and with my mom and my grandparents was really not a part of my life. (Jimmy Connors)
Tennis was always there for me, which was lucky. I would go play baseball, basketball, football, hang with my brother, do whatever, and at the end of the day I'd come back and say, 'Hey, Mom, would you hit 15 minutes worth of balls with me?' View quote
Jimmy Connors
It was okay for Wayne Gretzky's dad, for instance, to give him a hockey stick, or Joe Montana's dad to give him a football, or Larry Bird's dad to give him a basketball, but it wasn't okay for Gloria Connors to give her son a tennis racquet. View quote
Jimmy Connors
To act with a tennis ball and imagine it's a tentacle, or if you're in some kind of wilderness film and you go, 'Okay, we can't have a grizzly bear here, but imagine when you step over the rock there there's a grizzly bear.' I don't know. They're tough moments. View quote
Joel Edgerton
These girls play tennis first and foremost, the fact that many of them are very glamorous is a major bonus for any promoter. View quote
John Lindsay