Quotes About Sports

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.

I always feel I sing better if I have been playing a lot of tennis or football.

I used to play a lot of racket sports, tennis and squash.

I can teach many sports, but obviously, tennis is the one. When you do other sports, you see things from different perspectives: different footwork drills, body positions, angles and geometry. All that stuff is helpful, and so when I do other sports, I can see things, because once you know one sport, then the other sport becomes more clear.

When I wasn't playing with Barbie dolls, I was always playing with different kinds of balls, and my dad said, let's try tennis.

It is just a crazy life as a sportsman. My daughter, Sam, wants to go into tennis, and I tell her, 'No, you don't want to go into professional sport.'

When I'm playing football, it's what I know; it's what I'm good at. The spotlight is not just on you: you're with 10 of your team-mates. I could have done other sports, like tennis and athletics, but I like being part of a team where it's not just about you; it's about everybody.

My tennis skills are okay.

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

It's an amazing feeling: tennis is growing very quickly in Canada, and to be a big part of it is an honour.

I look at our sport as the same as tennis. Male and female tennis is very, very different. The men's is more quick and powerful, and the women's is more about finesse and has more rallies - and that's the same with men's and women's football.

If you lose three or four in a row, people start talking about retirement. They are not used to this sport like they are used to tennis. If you take a look at how many times Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer lost, it's all part of the game. Soccer is no different: teams go through bad times and then rise again.

I'm a softball player. I'm a soccer player. I played tennis every day. I love being outside.

Now I do bowling, golf, and tennis. I want to be a good bowler.

When I'm doing sports, I always think of how it's related to singing, and when I watch tennis, I learn a lot for my singing: how the players are focused, how they use their technique, and, in the case of Roger Federer, how effortless it is and how beautiful it is to watch - like bel canto, in a way. That's how singing should be.

I enjoy tennis, though don't play very often nowadays, and skiing... oh yes and swimming.

Seems like most of the kids today are into other sports other than tennis.

I've been playing tennis, and just whatever sport is in front of me I will do.

Tennis doesn't encourage any kind of intellectual development.

In the tennis world, there weren't a whole lot of Asians playing. You see it a little bit more now. The same can really be said for basketball.

Tennis is more commercial these days.

When you are very little tennis should be fun, it should be a game.

One of the greatest joys of tennis is having a nice volley and not really keeping score, not really looking at the lines, but just catching up with each other.

I have a strong tennis arm.