Tennis Quotes - page 2

Even though now I'm pretty popular in my country and tennis is the No. 1 sport, and I'm very flattered that the people recognise me and come up and give me compliments, I'm more a person who likes to have privacy and peace. (Novak Djokovic)
I love football and it's the sport I would really like to play. I've said on national television here that I would really love to play for one of our football clubs when I finished my tennis career. View quote
Novak Djokovic
I haven't been in tennis for that long, but what I can say is that we have a lot of young guys at the top who are willing to do a lot of good things for tennis in general. View quote
Novak Djokovic
It was very unusual for a boy to play tennis in my country. View quote
Novak Djokovic
Tennis is my life, obviously; I need to focus, I need to win. But it's not the only thing. I'm not going to play forever. View quote
Novak Djokovic
I enjoy tennis, though don't play very often nowadays, and skiing... oh yes and swimming. View quote
Roger Moore
I have always been guided by striving to show the best that I could. That is what kept me going in tennis and it is the same now. View quote
Steffi Graf
The tennis wasn't really very much on my mind, so it wasn't like I was thinking about it all the time. View quote
Steffi Graf
It's so difficult to find time besides the tennis. View quote
Steffi Graf
Anybody who can dial a telephone can master tennis scoring in about 15 minutes. View quote
Bradley Whitford
In Hollywood people lie to each other and cheat each other and then go and play tennis. But I don't want to be a tennis player. (David Geffen)
Tennis taught me so many lessons in life. One of the things it taught me is that every ball that comes to me, I have to make a decision. I have to accept responsibility for the consequences every time I hit a ball. View quote
Billie Jean King
I used to be told if I talked about my sexuality in any way that we wouldn't have a tennis tour. View quote
Billie Jean King
I was always in the tennis business-from 1968. I was in tournaments and also on World Team Tennis teams as well. View quote
Billie Jean King
I like putting money back into what made my life, and tennis has been great to me. View quote
Billie Jean King
I always wanted to help make tennis a team sport. View quote
Billie Jean King
I love to promote our sport. I love grass-roots tennis. I love coaching. I love all parts of the sport. I love the business side. View quote
Billie Jean King
Ever since that day when I was 11 years old, and I wasn't allowed in a photo because I wasn't wearing a tennis skirt, I knew that I wanted to change the sport. View quote
Billie Jean King
Men can have a huge turnover of sponsorship and still survive a lot better than the women. But the women's ratings are better, at least at home in the United States than in the men's tennis. View quote
Billie Jean King
There is no life for girls in team sports past Little League. I got into tennis when I realized this, and because I thought golf would be too slow for me, and I was too scared to swim. View quote
Billie Jean King
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. (Joseph Morgan)
I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis. View quote
Venus Williams
Tennis is mostly mental. Of course, you must have a lot of physical skill, but you can't play tennis well and not be a good thinker. You win or lose the match before you even go out there. View quote
Venus Williams
Working with Brando was fun. It was like a tennis match. We played unbelievably well together. View quote
Uta Hagen
I grew up on the tennis court with lots of other kids. There were like 40 kids all afternoon and I was one of the youngest ones, so I always had to chase everybody to keep up. View quote
Martina Hingis