Quotes About Tennis

Hard courts are very negative for the body. I know the sport is a business and creating these courts is easier than clay or grass, but I am 100 per cent sure it is wrong.

I was between 2 and 3 in the world for two, three years. That's not exactly where I wanted to be.

Golfers are forever working on mechanics. My tennis swing hasn't changed in 10 years.

I'm not saying I'm something special. I might play a little better tennis than other people, but it is because I was given the chance, and not many people are.

Tennis is so competitive. I guess that's the way it has to be.

I got bad calls every match, and I never got an apology. So I thought it was rather strange.

Tennis is not like other sports where the coach is hired by an independent entity, and that makes a huge difference in the dynamic.

If Davis Cup was a little bit less or once every two years, I would be more inclined to play. But the way it is now, it is too much tennis for me.

There's always one shot that I can rely on when I'm not hitting the ball that well, is my serve.

I've been around tennis, and I have a feeling for the sport. I still play tennis, and I can still do a lot of harm to a lot of people.

Nadal's the best player in history on [clay], and he is one of the best-ever players that played this game.

Near Shepherd's Bush two thousand Beta-Minus mixed doubles were playing Riemann-surface tennis.

I've never played,' said von Igelfeld. 'Nor I,' said Unterholzer. 'Chess, yes. Tennis no.' 'But that's no reason not to play,' von Igelfeld added quickly. 'Tennis, like any activity, can be mastered if one knows the principles behind it. In that respect it must be like language. The understanding of simple rules produces an understanding of a language. What could be simpler?

No, like I said, my dad was never really part of the tennis. His involvement around what I did with the tennis and with my mom and my grandparents was really not a part of my life.

Bjorn was a different breed, I threw my best material at him, but he would never smile, but that added to the charm when he played me and Mac. We were going nuts and losing our mind and he was sitting back like he was on a Sunday stroll.

At this year's Open, I'll have five boyfriends.

I'd like to run a professional football team. I'd love to run the USTA, be the sports editor of the 'New York Times.'

My mom actively did not want me to play professionally.

I think there's no reason the Davis Cup couldn't be as powerful and popular and profitable as any of the four majors are today, given some changes.

If you really want to get it more exciting, no linesmen. And have the players call their lines. That would make the game more exciting, I promise you. It would be awesome.

It's important to promote tennis in inner city schools so kids in those areas have access to the sport.

The whole idea is to propose an immersive experience. When you watch tennis, you watch from the outside, you're far from the court, the camera is far away and the whole story is about two persons hitting a tennis ball and trying to win.

But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires, and I knew that first I had to get myself definitely out of that tangle back home. I'd been writing letters once a week and signing them: "Love, Nick," and all I could think of was how, when that certain girl played tennis, a faint mustache of perspiration appeared on her upper lip. Nevertheless there was a vague understanding that had to be tactfully broken off before I was free.

It would be fantastic to have the two top-ranked players in the world playing out of the same club.