Quotes About Competition

Right now I like baseball, hockey and tennis players. And horseback riders.

Tennis players we're always playing in center courts that feel like arenas. And when we get on the court and the crowd cheers your name or salutes you - it's like you're a gladiator in the arena. And everyone is cheering - and you're fighting, you're screaming, during your strokes - it feels like you're an animal, fighting for your life.

Tennis is a hard sport. There is a lot of competition all year and you play alone.

My best tennis at my peak was when I played a lot of matches.

You don't just have to be skilled and talented at tennis, but you have to be so physically strong.

I think, for me, I just really want to have fun with every match that I play because tennis is a game.

Like many men who play tennis, when I hit a ball into the net, I tend to look daggers at my racket, reproaching it for playing so badly when I myself have been trying so hard.

Nobody actually played tennis in my family.

Billie Jean King is one of the all-time tennis greats; she's one of the superstars. She's ready for the big one, but she doesn't stand a chance against me. Women's tennis is so far beneath men's tennis; that's what makes the contest with a 55-year-old man the greatest contest of all time.

Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player.

I grew up on games like Madden and NBA Jam, then moved on to NFL 2K on Dreamcast. The game I really loved was Virtua Tennis.

I did realise more than ever, after the stabbing, that tennis is a business - a tough business.

There is a fear of emotion in tennis.

That's what I love about tennis: As an individual sport, you can't hide behind teammates.

I was a child who was interested in sports, and represented my school in football, cricket, badminton and table tennis.

Back in East St. Louis, tennis wasn't the real thing. If you weren't playing baseball, basketball, football, you were kind of on the outside.

Tennis is an individual sport, and I am quite a self-conscious person.

Everything in tennis is so neat and nice but boxing has sport down to its essence; it is very pure and I like that.

I do play tennis, but I don't really like competition. I'm supposed to be so intense, but I hate competition.

It was different when I was young, aged 20, playing the French Open. I didn't have so much experience. I just played tennis because I loved the game.

Tennis, for me, every time I went out on the court, it just gave me such joy to play.

Tennis is the purest form of democracy. There was a symbiotic, chicken-and-egg relationship for me between democracy and tennis.

I love to play tennis. I play a lot in the summer. I'm not a big golfer; I need something a bit more intense.

No matter what happens, tennis is still tennis: You can see a lot of great matches, a lot of new people.