Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andre Agassi

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

David Newman

There's no predictability in tennis. Tennis has no time limits.

David Ferrer

That's what tennis is all about. Anything can happen. Until the end of the match, you can't really say it's done.

Evan Rachel Wood

There was something so cool about being able to carry this film [Into the Forest] together [with Ellen Page] and to play off of each other. It was like having the most worthy tennis opponent.

Greg Rusedski

If I stay healthy and I'm playing good tennis I have as good a chance as anybody.

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.

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

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.

Fred Perry

Strangely enough, Kathy Jordan is getting to the net first, which she always does.

Lilly Pulitzer

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

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.

Ion Tiriac

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

Serena Williams

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

Serena Williams

We do more ready-to-wear and ath-leisure, things you would wear everyday. I never close my mind to anything and eventually want to branch out. But for now, tennis is still number one for me.

Tom Hiddleston

Acting is a bit like tennis in that you can't really do it on your own.

Sloane Stephens

Good music just makes me happy and keeps me from getting distracted.

Sloane Stephens

I've heard that I'm 'the future of tennis.' But that's all just random stuff.

Sloane Stephens

When you have confidence, you can do anything.

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.

Mats Wilander

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

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.

Rafael Nadal

I'm only superstitious on the tennis court.