Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sloane Stephens

When you have confidence, you can do anything.

Mercedes Ruehl

We have the tendency to condemn what we don't understand.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Im not tense, just terribly, terribly alert." Nick

Mats Wilander

To me, Hewitt and Nadal would be the best spirited fighters I've ever seen on the tennis court.

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.

Maria Sharapova

I want my tennis to speak for everything.

Maria Sharapova

When I'm down or maybe when it's close in the match, I feel like I'm still in it. I don't feel like I'm letting down. Mentally, I'm still really, really tough.

Rafael Nadal

I'm only superstitious on the tennis court.

Rafael Nadal

What distinguishes tennis is respect for one's opponent, one's conduct on the court.

Rafael Nadal

Losing is not my enemy..fear of losing is my enemy.

Nicolas Massu

I'd rather be No. 2 in Chile and No. 1 in the world.

Monica Seles

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

Monica Seles

Tennis is so competitive. I guess that's the way it has to be.

Monica Seles

As you know, I was one of the original grunters. But Jimmy Connors used to grunt way before I was born. I never knew I was grunting, it was just part of my strokes.

Monica Seles

I never knew I was grunting, it was just part of my strokes.

Monica Seles

I'm about the present.

Monica Seles

Tennis has to become everything to you if you're going to make it to the top. You have to live it.

Emily Mortimer

I'm always drawn to the thing I think I can't possibly do, because I tend to be better when I think I can't possibly do something than I am when I'm pretty sure I can do something.

Kim Clijsters

For me, tennis is important but it's not the most important thing in my life.

Ray Anderson

I don't think it's that simple. But historically, there have been some 'copycat' tendencies in the league.

Sonu Nigam

I was a topper till class tenth and wanted to initially be a scientist.

Flannery O'Connor

Tennessee's a hillbilly dumping ground, and Georgia's a lousy state too.

Jim Courier

Unbelievable, yet, what else could it be?

Jim Courier

Flying has opened up new horizons for tennis.

Jim Courier

Tennis doesn't encourage any kind of intellectual development.

Jerry Lawler

I don't know of any wrestler who hasn't, at one time or another, been with a fan. One time I met a woman at a match in Tennessee, and afterward we went to a little roadside motel. We checked in, went to the room, and enjoyed each other for an hour or so.

Ion Tiriac

I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.

Edmund White

Most writers tend to get worse rather than better. I'm determined to be one that gets better.

Richard Virenque

My first was in 1994 and it's ten years ago already. It's been ten years and I'm still around. I won a stage again, like I did last year and the year before.

B. F. Skinner

The extent to which human aggression exemplifies innate tendencies is not clear.

Colin Mochrie

The American audiences are more vocal and enthusiastic. British audiences tend to sit back a little more.

We just went cold. We have a tendency to do that.

Lleyton Hewitt

I won't be watching the women's final, that's for sure. I'm not into women's tennis any more.