Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeff Smith

He wants to get tennis going in the valley, especially with juniors.

Tullian Tchividjian

I got my first tennis racket on my seventh birthday. And because we had a tennis court in our backyard, I played every day. By ten I was playing competitively.

Venus Williams

I know I'm good at tennis. Other than that, everything else is a wild card. I'm a wild card.

Venus Williams

To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.

Venus Williams

The outfit is inspired by Alice in Wonderland. It's kind of about a surprise, because when Alice goes down the rabbit hole, she finds all these things that are so surprising. This outfit is about having a surprise in a tennis dress, and showing some skin and then just having a print. Prints don't happen that often in tennis. So it's called the Wonderland dress.

W. P. Kinsella

I'm a big fan of curling, follow all the major world events. Watch all four Tennis majors.

Marat Safin

I love tennis, but I just don't like grass.

Marat Safin

Everything is possible in this life...

Patrick Mouratoglou

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.

Lilly Pulitzer

I was a gypsy, living a carefree life of ponies and tennis.

Marc Webb

When you have to react to a lizard that's a tennis ball, it's a really, really difficult, tricky piece of craft.

Martina Navratilova

I'm an American. You can't go on where you were born. If you do then John McEnroe would be a German.

Martina Navratilova

I'm not involved in tennis but committed.

Martina Navratilova

Tennis has given me soul.

Martina Navratilova

Just go out there and do what you've got to do.

Lindsay Davenport

I've played too many tennis hours.

Pete Sampras

When I committed to playing a little tennis in some exhibitions, it was the best thing for me. It got me in shape. It got me out of the house. It got me doing something I love to do.

Pete Sampras

I guess I get my strength from my legs, which are also important in tennis.

Rahul Dravid

There is no substitute to taking a lot of a catches as a youngster if you want to do slip catching - you've got to catch, catch, catch. And more than doing the normal stuff, you have to vary your catching - you've got to take some catches with the tennis ball, you got to take some closer, some further away.

Li Na

Tennis is best of three sets, so even if I lose the first set, I still have a chance.

Li Na

I feel like my whole life only tennis.

Li Na

China tennis - we're getting bigger and bigger.

John Forsythe

The only way to quieten me is to invite me to a tennis match.

Jonathan Ames

I started puberty very late. I was nearly sixteen. And for complicated reasons this late arrival of my puberty caused me to stop playing competitive tennis. But before my puberty problem, I had trouble with my lower back and with my left testicle.

John McEnroe

It's been predictable, in the sense of 'expect the unexpected'.

John McEnroe

This [defeat] has taught me a lesson, but I'm not sure what it is.

John McEnroe

We all choke. Winners know how to handle choking better than losers.

Gabriela Sabatini

I carried through well with my tennis. I got the respect by usage of the tennis racket.

Jimmy Connors

With everything else that would swirl around me when I got involved in it, tennis was my main concern.

Jimmy Connors

I never lost a tennis match, I just ran out of time

Jimmy Connors

Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it.

Jim Parsons

I love seeing tennis up close.

Bill Anderson

Power thrills, consistency kills.