Quotes About Tennis

I am two different people. What you see on the court is just natural for me. I wear my heart on my sleeve. I have always said 'C'mon' purely to fire myself up. Off the court, I am a lot shyer. I stick to my team and my family and people I trust.

The sting of losing is bad.

It gives me goose bumps and little butterflies in the stomach when I start thinking about the 'golden slam.'

Billie Jean King always was there for me as a role model. She always fought for equality, and that always stood out as I was coming up.

My game is pretty straightforward, I feel like. If there's a big point I'm looking for a forehand; looking to be aggressive.

Cooking practice can be expensive and impractical. If you have the time, you can practice your tennis serve a thousand times a day for a few dollars. Making a thousand omelets a day? That's a different story.

The person I am on the court is not who I am off the court.

My parents and my older brother played. You kind of want to do what your family does. They were on the court. I'm like, 'I want to be on the court, too.'

Tennis is not really a traditional Olympic sport.

If it doesn't mean more to a normal human being like Dan Evans, who could change his life and career by winning not a gold but a bronze medal for Great Britain, if he doesn't want to take that chance, I would say something is wrong with the Olympics in what it's worth in tennis.

You know, beating Rafa, it was great experience I had in Olympics.

I've become more mature on and off the court, and I've learned how to deal with some of those big occasions much better.

As I've opened up, the less negative comments there are. Ninety-eight percent of followers love what I'm doing for fashion, for tennis, for coming back from an injury. They follow the part that inspires them.

I had a shoulder problem during my career when I changed my service action and needed an operation.

Tennis just a game, family is forever.

I was lucky enough to win the Davis Cup in my first year in 1999. I won my first slam at the U.S. Open in 2001 and became world No. 1 later that year. By the age of 20, I'd done it all.

I started tennis around age 2.

As a kid, I wanted to be a pro tennis player. I was pretty good; at the tennis academies I attended, I always played up against older age groups.

I am not the most courageous guy in the world outside of the court. Being alone in the dark is something I don't like.

i put the shotgun in an Adidas bag and padded it out with four pairs of tennis socks, not my style at all, but that was what I was aiming for: If they think you're crude, go technical; if they think you're technical, go crude. I'm a very technical boy. So I decided to get as crude as possible.

tennis' comes from the French tenez ('take it'). This dubious explanation turns out, on closer investigation, to be well founded, since early players—of 'real' tennis, not modern lawn tennis—apparently called out this word to alert the receiver that they were about to serve. Reading

I carried through well with my tennis. I got the respect by usage of the tennis racket.

On the clay, I am used to sliding so much and I move really well, but I can't slide on the hard courts.

When I reached America, there was so much space and colour. The possibilities seemed endless. At least that's how I felt at 18. But of course, I didn't have to take the usual immigrant route of battling to find a job and a home in a strange country. I could play tennis. I spoke the language, and I was making money. It was easy, really.