Quotes About Tennis

My serve and my forehand I pretty much always had, but my backhand was a made backhand. I worked on it for years.

Yeah, it's never easy, someone serving like Ivo.

Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.

Once it's over and you understand what's going on, it's a shame. You want to win three sets.

Most guys aren't getting a racquet or putting balls back in off my serve most of the time.

Anytime you can beat a player that's going to go down as one of the best of all time, that's a good win.

The deader the ball, the better it suited her purpose, which was to whack the shit out of it until she was physically exhausted. She thought this was quite possibly the most satisfying thing she'd ever done.

Could a more perfect manufactured object than a tennis ball be imagined? Fuzzy and spherical, squeezable and bouncy, its stitching a pair of matching tongues, its voice on impact a pock in the most pleasing of registers. Dogs knew a good thing, dogs loved tennis balls, and so did she.

Chess is one of the means we have to save culture, such as Latin, the study of the humanities, the reading of classics, the laws of versification and ethics. Chess is now replaced by football, boxing or tennis, which are games of fools, not of intellectuals.

El ajedrez es uno de los medios que tenemos para salvar la cultura, como el latín, el estudio de las humanidades, la lectura de los clásicos, las leyes de la versificación, la ética. El ajedrez es hoy reemplazado por el fútbol, el boxeo o el tenis, que son juegos de insensatos, no de intelectuales.

To me, anyone with an Australian accent wielding a tennis racket is cool.

There's a lot of times I'll just play too passive and since I'm not going to play defense as well as most guys can, I can't get away with passive play.

I am really impressed with Dominic Thiem's patience at times.

My greatest high was to hit a ball well, to try to do it perfectly, to try different things, whether they came off or not.

I wouldn't have wanted to be in any other era. Chrissie Evert, Martina Navratilova, Virginia Wade, Evonne Goolagong and Margaret Court were fabulous people, and I made great friends along the way.

Tennis is basically a game where you try to create an opportunity for yourself to finish the point, because you can't wait for the opponent to miss anymore. Well, if you create an opportunity and don't take advantage of it, you let the opponent back to even, then you are just starting the point over, so you have to take advantage of them.

All my life, I've been focusing on tennis, training, getting results. Jenni and I wanted to have kids pretty early, but we waited. We always thought it was better in the future. Now I don't understand why we ever waited.

I mean, it's been quite busy, especially with the rain delay the first few days, and then having to play the late evenings, waiting here every day. It's been kind of difficult.

I love the game. I love waking up every morning with the goal to win a Slam for the first time.

It is nice to walk out on a court to have it packed.

Venus is a walking, living, breathing legend.

The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I'll never be as good as a wall.

I've got my years on tour now kind of under my belt, and I'm getting the experience and playing more and more big matches, which I think helps.

So I think, for me, playing matches - actually being in real matches - is the best way to get myself playing the best tennis.