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Quotes About Sports

There is no such thing as bad luck in tennis. Just bad technique.
~ Mats Wilander
I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
~ Robert Frost
Women's tennis? I think it stinks. They hit the ball back and forth, have a lot of nice volleys, and you can see some pretty legs. But it's night and day compared to men's tennis.
~ Bobby Riggs
I started out with a tennis racquet. Later, during one of the breaks we got from tennis, I started playing football with my friends. I was only five years old.
~ Hugo Lloris
I play a lot of sports. I played football for 12 years, I like tennis, I surf, I snowboard, and I ski. I always like to do an activity.
~ Caroline Winberg
I'm ambidextrous when I eat. But playing tennis right-handed - I can't do it. I'm clueless.
~ Rafael Nadal
Right now I like baseball, hockey and tennis players. And horseback riders.
~ Martina Hingis
When I was growing up, I played a lot of different sports. There was a time when I was playing field hockey, tennis, and soccer at the same time. I was actually quite good at all of those sports.
~ Alexander Zverev
I was passionate about soccer. I still am. Odd, though - playing soccer always made me much more anxious than playing tennis. On soccer days, I'd be out of bed by 6 in the morning, all nervous. But I was always calm when it was time for a tennis match. I still don't know why.
~ Rafael Nadal
Tennis, at times, I follow, but not much.
~ P. V. Sindhu
Nobody actually played tennis in my family.
~ Novak Djokovic
Women have it better in tennis than any other sport, but you shouldn't push them to play more than they're capable of playing.
~ John McEnroe
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.
~ Chris Paul
I played tennis and softball, and we had horses, growing up.
~ Beth Riesgraf
I was a child who was interested in sports, and represented my school in football, cricket, badminton and table tennis.
~ Siddharth Shukla
I, as a cricketer, would like to see 100 counties playing top-flight cricket, just like tennis and football. If I am alive to see that, I will be very happy.
~ Kapil Dev
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.
~ Jimmy Connors
I do everything right-handed - football, tennis, darts and golf - except for snooker.
~ Judd Trump
I do play tennis, but I don't really like competition. I'm supposed to be so intense, but I hate competition.
~ Amy Chua
I have fond memories of my kabaddi exploits at Lawrence School. I also enjoyed tennis and swimming.
~ Anand Mahindra
For my fifth birthday, I got a small tennis racket. That's how I started.
~ Ana Ivanovic
Isn't it funny - why is it called a tennis bracelet? It doesn't seem very tennis, does it?
~ John Cameron Mitchell
Personally, I enjoyed school as much as the next kid. I was into art and every sport going from football to table tennis, so I kept busy. I never bunked a day off and left with 9 GCSEs, if I remember correctly.
~ Kano
Gender is irrelevant. Certainly the tennis ball doesn't know what the gender was of the tennis coach.
~ Martina Navratilova