Famous Quotes & Sayings

It's always been my area. I wanted to be very tender with it, but I've always watched it like it was my own.

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.

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.

Pope Francis

Be missionaries of God's tenderness!

Jim Parsons

I love seeing tennis up close.

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.

Queen Latifah

Dolly Parton made me chicken and dumplings. That Tennessee woman can burn some pots! And we know that I am not necessarily shy to a fork!

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.

Katherine Center

Beauty comes from tenderness.

Kanye West

Let the music defuse all the tension.

Patrick Marber

I'm constantly having to be vigilant with a depressive tendency, an addictive tendency.

Neneh Cherry

I had this weird, nomadic little tent with a rug over it, like a booth where I'd sing the vocals.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I am not afraid of the word tension.

Nadine Gordimer

The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.

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.

Patrick Rafter

I don't know if Wimbledon's seen anything like it. I don't know if they will again. But it was just - it was electric. The Aussie crowd, I'm really proud of them, the way they conducted themselves. You know they're great losers, as well.

Patrick Rafter

I'm the sort of person who keeps a lot to myself.

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.

For some of them it's actually their first tennis experience.

Rafael Nadal

I take pleasure in tennis and the hope that it requires.

Rafael Nadal

Is only a tennis match. At the end, that's life. There is much more important things.

Rafael Nadal

It's more a tennis problem than a mental problem. The transition is difficult. It depends how much time you have. Playing on grass can sometimes be a bit of a lottery.

Rafael Nadal

My tennis is aggressive, though I wouldn't say that it's more physical than technical. I rely more on technique than physique, but being physical is always a help to me.

Serena Williams

Sure, I've been on the Tube...I caught it to Eastbourne once.