Quotes About Tennis

I have been working on my backhand since I was the age of five. And it's a disaster, my backhand, so I'm working on it.

It's no disgrace to play against the world's champions and lose by one service break in the last two sets.

For me, it's always been tennis. I haven't really explored any other avenues.

Facing a great server makes a match so much more difficult, even for the best players in the world.

Tennis is fake. We have real characters, but they don't dare to be themselves, and the code of conduct has a lot to do with that.

Since I was little, I've watched Roger play on TV. To me, he plays almost perfect tennis. His technique is perfect. I also like him at the human level; he's a very good person on and off the court.

You don't think people would go on about my looks if I was No. 500 in the world instead of No.12, do you? Anyway, as I keep telling everyone, you can't blame me for looking like this on purpose.

I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.

I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.

Never trust a cat, anyway. All they're good for is stringing tennis racquets.

If somebody says I am better than Roger, I think this person doesn't know anything about tennis.

People know me. I'm not going to produce any cartwheels out there. I'm not going to belong on Comedy Central. I'll always be a tennis player, not a celebrity.

In tennis, you can make a couple of mistakes and still win. Not in golf. I played three rounds in that Tahoe event, and I was drained. Mentally, not physically.

So this is it. Match point for eternity.

Ever since that day when I was 11 years old, and I wasn't allowed in a photo because I wasn't wearing a tennis skirt, I knew that I wanted to change the sport.

When I got to match point in the final I was afraid I'd be a little nervous, but I just said, You have to stay focused, just think about what you have to do.

I'm playing pretty good now, but my ranking doesn't say that. I'm number two.

In the States, tennis is sixth or seventh on the totem pole as far as sports go.

Tennis is a psychological sport, you have to keep a clear head. That is why I stopped playing.

I let my racket do the talking. That's what I am all about, really. I just go out and win tennis matches.

I've been asked a lot lately if tennis is clean or not. I don't know any more how you judge whether a sport is clean. If one in 100 players is doping, in my eyes that isn't a clean sport.

I love various sports, including basketball, tennis and billiards.

Its silly to say it about a tennis player, but Im an unbelievable hero in Germany. And Germany needs heroes more than any place.

I love football and it's the sport I would really like to play. I've said on national television here that I would really love to play for one of our football clubs when I finished my tennis career.