Quotes About Tennis

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.

It's true I always try to be as seductive as possible but I wouldn't be here if I couldn't play tennis.

As soon as I step on the court I just try to play tennis and don't find excuses. You know, I just lost because I lost, not because my arm was sore.

Another little known fact about Amazing Tennis - the computer opponents are modeled after real people. In an odd turn of events, I joined a division 3 college tennis team at age 38.

I just wanted to play tennis. I started because I wanted to pick up another sport and then as I was slowly getting better I wanted to see how far I can go but I always wanted to be myself. I wanted to be original. I didn't want to copy anybody's style.

I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis.

It wasn't my tennis that made me lose, it was a lot of different things going on, high drama, high emotion.

I don't make a habit of watching tennis matches, but I try to watch all the major finals. I try to make time for that. So unless I have something going with the kids where I can't, I try to watch, and I enjoy that.

I'm really trying to focus myself on playing tennis, and I think that's really important.

Since a month, two months ago, you know, I've started hitting the ball well. I'm playing some really good tennis. That really helps. I sort of have to motivate myself to get pumped up. It really helps my game a lot.

You're the only one in control over your golf ball. It's not like tennis: you're hitting a shot and somebody's hitting it back at you.

If I stay healthy and I'm playing good tennis I have as good a chance as anybody.

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 chose to stay with tennis and they didn't understand that at the school.

When I was 4 my mother got divorced and we were very close to each other. I always wanted to be with her. She took me everywhere. When she went for dinner with friends or when they had meetings at the tennis club, I was always there.

For the first couple of years I played really bad tennis. It was so bad that they booed me off the court.

What these guys are doing is great for Argentinean tennis. This is motivating other people.

I began playing in the Pacific Coast Indoor Tennis Championships.

These girls play tennis first and foremost, the fact that many of them are very glamorous is a major bonus for any promoter.

It was so inspiring for me to watch tennis growing up. I thought I was really good playing, until my brother told me I wasn't!

There are not many Irish people playing tennis!

Serena and I have done some great career planning, and we're playing really at the peak of our tennis right now. I think tennis has been a sport where people play this insane schedule from 14 years old, so of course at 26, it's over. We've really paced ourselves.

Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.

I have always been guided by striving to show the best that I could. That is what kept me going in tennis and it is the same now.