Tennis Quotes - page 18

After being on the court for six hours, being on TV is very glamorous and fun for me. But tennis is always going to be my priority. It's not going to be this thing when all of a sudden TV will get in the way of that. (Maria Sharapova)
I always have a Sharpie, because usually when someone asks me for an autograph, they don't have a pen. I carry one in my purse, as well as in my tennis bag. View quote
Maria Sharapova
Tennis has given me this wonderful life and I'm very grateful for it. View quote
Maria Sharapova
I'd love to open a tennis school for children in my hometown of Sochi. View quote
Maria Sharapova
To be honest, everything in my life outside of tennis is great. I'm doing amazing projects that, if I didn't have time off, I wouldn't be able to focus on. View quote
Maria Sharapova
My family belongs to a tennis club in Valencia, California, so I always go there. I play a lot of tennis with my dad and swim. And I like to go to the gym there. View quote
Ashley Tisdale
Let no one say that I have said nothing new ... the arrangement of the subject is new. When we play tennis, we both play with the same ball, but one of us places it better. View quote
Blaise Pascal
As tennis players, you are never satisfied. We are greedy as players, always want better results. View quote
Sania Mirza
I've been around tennis, and I have a feeling for the sport. I still play tennis, and I can still do a lot of harm to a lot of people. View quote
Oleg Cassini
Team sports aren't my thing. I find it easier to pick something up if I can do it at my own speed. And you don't need a partner to go running, you don't need a particular place, like in tennis, just a pair of trainers. View quote
Haruki Murakami
By the time I was a young man, I lived with two deep struggles: I longed to become a cricketer, and I performed miserably in school. Cricket and tennis were all that I lived for. In India, this was a formula for failure. (Ravi Zacharias)
You always want to win. That is why you play tennis, because you love the sport and try to be the best you can at it. View quote
Roger Federer
I enjoyed the position I was in as a tennis player. I was to blame when I lost. I was to blame when I won. And I really like that, because I played soccer a lot too, and I couldn't stand it when I had to blame it on the goalkeeper. View quote
Roger Federer
I'm as patient a father as I am on the tennis court. It takes a lot for me to get really upset, but sometimes kids can get you really cross if they really keep bugging you. View quote
Roger Federer
I used to get nervous, you know if my parents would come watch. And then I would get nervous if my friends came and watched. Today it's not a problem anymore actually, because now I enjoy it. I see that they, you know, respect me immensely, and I try to put on a good show and show that I can still play very good tennis. View quote
Roger Federer
I don't mind fans coming up in a friendly, respectful way. That's all part of the fun of being a top tennis player. But if people take pictures without permission, particularly if my children are in the shot, I feel uncomfortable. View quote
Roger Federer
I don't need to come back to Wimbledon every year because I can't live without it. I'd be totally cool without tennis. View quote
Roger Federer
I was very, very shy as a younger girl, just petrified of people. Tennis helped give me an identity and made me feel like somebody. View quote
Chris Evert
When I was younger, I was a robot. Wind her up and she plays tennis. View quote
Chris Evert
If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life. View quote
Chris Evert
My mother is a fighter. After she battled polio and learned to walk again, the doctors told her she would be a cripple her entire life. Instead of accepting defeat, she refused this fate and went on to become the West African Women's Singles tennis champion in college. (Uzo Aduba)
What is the single most important quality in a tennis champion? I would have to say desire, staying in there and winning matches when you are not playing that well. View quote
John McEnroe
I'd like to think I could have and should have won more, but that's not the point. And I was at the point where I was playing great tennis in the mid 80s - the type of tennis people hadn't seen before - and I was very proud of that. View quote
John McEnroe
Stop trying to treat music like it's a tennis shoe, something to be branded. If the music industry wants to save money, they should take a look at some of their six-figure executive expense accounts. All those lawsuits can't be cheap, either. View quote
Jeff Tweedy
I used to play a lot of racket sports, tennis and squash. View quote
Jason Statham