Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Anderson

Power thrills, consistency kills.

Boris Becker

Andre Sa is playing close to his potential - maybe even above it.

Boris Becker

The fifth set is not about tennis, it's about nerves.

Jane Kaczmarek

Tennis lets you talk while you're playing.

I would like to see it go back to the wood racquets. To see the touch put back in tennis.

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.

Billie Jean King

For me, losing a tennis match isn't failure, it's research.

Chris Evert

Of all my achievements in tennis, I'm probably as proud of my record on clay courts as any of my Wimbledon, U.S. Open or French singles titles.

Chris Evert

Training the body to obey the mind as I have done differs from the more conventional method of getting the mind to obey the body.

Arthur Ashe

Martina's like the old Green Bay Packers. You know exactly what she's going to do, but there isn't a thing you can do about it.

Elena Vesnina

I felt tight from the beginning of the match to the end. I couldn't relax.

Kim Clijsters

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

Bradley Whitford

Anybody who can dial a telephone can master tennis scoring in about 15 minutes.

Andy Roddick

Is that the longest fifth set ever? It was? So, no, I've never played one longer than that!

Andy Roddick

I don't want to live and die with every point that's being played out there now. I'm going to let my coach live and die with every point.

Clive James

Roscoe Tanner seems to have found a way of making his service go even faster, so that the ball is now quite invisible, like Stealth, the American supersonic bomber which nobody has ever seen.

Clive James

Like a Volvo, Bjorn Borg is rugged, has good after-sales service, and is very dull.

Clive James

John McEnroe looks as if he is serving round the edge of an imaginary building.

Anastasia Myskina

I know China are very good in table tennis. Let me see what happens in tennis. I am pretty happy with the way I am playing.

Andre Agassi

I don't always choose to stay fit by playing tennis, because that comes with its own wear-and-tear.

Anna Kournikova

It's not really a shorter skirt, I just have longer legs

Althea Gibson

Being champion is all well and good, but you can't eat a crown.

Andy Murray

There is a fear of emotion in tennis.

Andy Murray

Well, my mum's been a tennis coach - she coached me till I was 12.

Donald Young

I love tennis. Without it I don't know what I would do.

David Oyelowo

I love tennis, love it!

Dabney Coleman

I was very lucky in as much as I played a lot of tennis.

Daniela Hantuchova

I guess the attention paid to appearance is something that belongs to tennis too.

Andre Agassi

My only good result in 1997 was marrying Brooke Shields.

Andre Agassi

Tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love - the basic elements of tennis are those of everyday existence, because every match is a life in miniature.

Jeff Smith

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

Lleyton Hewitt

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

Bjorn Borg

When I retired from tennis I wanted to do other things with my life.