Quotes About Tennis

If I was to win the U.S. Open or something, I won't play again for the rest of the year.

I play enough tennis during the year; I'm sick of it by the time I get home. So the last thing I want to do is go out there and hit more balls.

India has a very good tradition in tennis.

Boxing, mixed martial arts and tennis are the hardest sports to train for.

In polo, you jump on a horse and you play. To play tennis, you have to train every day. It's your legs that do all the work. In polo, it's the horses' legs.

I do a lot of biking. I need that mileage and the long-distance stuff because tennis demands it. My fitness trainer is always trying to convince me to do an Ironman. I can probably run the marathon, I can make the 112 miles on the bike, but I will never swim for 2.4 miles. I will die after 100 meters.

I'm very very big on playing sports instead of working with a trainer. I've tried sort of everything and I've come to the conclusion that I need to play tennis or throw a softball or walk with friends.

The dream is to win a Grand Slam and that is what I'm playing for and training for. It's tough, but I believe that maybe one day I'll be lucky enough to win one.

Probably around 14, when I was finishing primary school. I'm coming from a pretty small city in Croatia, not too many options to train, not too many players. So I had to either choose to stay at home to do more school or move to Zagreb to the national training center. That was when I made decisions to do something better in tennis.

During COVID, I was still training, working on my fitness and my tennis. I was able to practice and play near where I live in Orlando.

I definitely think the way the game is transforming, becoming more and more athletic, guys are great athletes out here and relying on the physical skills more than their tennis skills, almost, sometimes. So for that reason, matching up with some of these guys, I can't keep up.

I try not to hit a swing volley and run back. So my swing volley is kind of that transition to the net. It's been one of my favorite shots ever since I was young.

My goal is to help make tennis transition to what's coming next and to be able to continue to grow rather than falling down, because no new fans come to our sport.

Challenging the truth is like playing tennis against the wall! The defeat is inevitable!

I was at an academy for basically my whole life when I played tennis, so I had the same schedule every single day.

Doubles is really exciting. I don't like even comparing it to singles. I get asked a lot of times which one I like better. I think they're two completely different games.

I can personally say if I'm not relevant in the singles world and my only choice is to play doubles, I'd probably stop playing tennis.

I would say playing doubles is great for, you know, just in general. For the singles game, as well. You're able to work on returns, serves, aggressive playing. Also able to practice pressure situations.

You have some singles that play doubles, but you have doubles players that can beat singles players when they're playing doubles.

India needs better singles players to progress as a tennis nation. They need to develop, be physically fitter and stronger.

When it's best-of-five sets and most of the Slams are hot, humid conditions, you need all the energy and rest you can get in the singles.

I love skateboarding and rollerblading, but I'm not really allowed to do it because of my tennis.

Nadal and Roger Federer have great respect for each other. I think Novak Djokovic gets under those two guys' skin a little bit, and maybe they don't want to admit it, and I think that's, in a way, healthy.

I don't think I'm one of those guys who won't pick up a racket for three years...I love hitting tennis balls.