Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Tim Henman

It's disappointing to have lost - that's the bee's knees of it...

Roger Federer

I fear no one, but respect everyone.

Sabine Lisicki

Tennis is for me joy, nothing less than that.

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.

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.

Samantha Stosur

In tennis it's easy to get greedy - and one Grand Slam doesn't feel enough any more.

Samantha Stosur

When I'm playing my best, like I was at the U.S. Open, I feel on top of the match and able to do exactly what I want. There are other times when you're not in control, but that is tennis and you have momentum changes in every single match.

Samantha Stosur

You've just got to get over that mental hurdle and those battles in your own head during matches when things aren't going so well. It takes time. It's probably all things I already knew, but for someone to talk about it maybe in a different way makes you realise things.

Samantha Stosur

Control the things you can control .

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

We've been training and playing full-time since we were 18 and 19. So after tennis, we'll be excited to see what it's like to have more free time.

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.

Rita Mae Brown

Tennis is physical chess.

Rita Mae Brown

Tennis, imprisoned within fixed boundaries, a patch of an acre, a green rectangle, tries the human soul. A tennis court is like a coffin, only larger.

Ron Livingston

In corporate levels, it's all about tailoring your shirt and which tennis club you belong to and which watch you are wearing and what did you shoot last week?

Victoria Azarenka

I hope I was a good example of women's tennis.

Tracy Austin

I started tennis around age 2.

Tracy Austin

I began playing in the Pacific Coast Indoor Tennis Championships.

Tracy Austin

I was too young to take it all in. I was too young to even realize I was young. I was just living my life.

Sylvester Stallone

Polo is like tennis - you literally have to live it.

Stefan Edberg

I felt better being in the background. That's the way I like it.

Stefan Edberg

Once you succeed in tennis, financially you become quite well off.

Steffi Graf

It's so difficult to find time besides the tennis.

Steffi Graf

I have always been guided by striving to show the best that I could. That is what kept me going in tennis and it is the same now.