“ I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out. ”
- Pat Cash- Copy
- 1.9K
“ The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I'll never be as good as a wall. ”
- Mitch Hedberg- Copy
- 1.4K
“ Billie and I did wonders for women's tennis. They owe me a piece of their checks. ”
- Bobby Riggs- Copy
- 128
“ Good shot, bad luck and hell are the five basic words to be used in a game of tennis, though these, of course, can be slightly amplified. ”
- Virginia Graham- Copy
- 2.5K
“ I let my racket do the talking. That's what I am all about, really. I just go out and win tennis matches. ”
- Pete Sampras- Copy
- 156
“ It's shocking how little there is to do with tennis when you're just thinking about nothing except winning every point. ”
- Andre Agassi- Copy
- 3K
“ One day you can be a kid, but another day you have to be like this is your job, you play tennis. You have to work for that. ”
- Martina Hingis- Copy
- 832
“ We are merely the stars' tennis balls, struck and bandied which way pleases them. ”
- John Webster- Copy
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“ What is the single most important quality in a tennis champion? I would have to say desire, staying in there and winning matches when you are not playing that well. ”
- John McEnroe- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity. ”
- Billie Jean King- Copy
- 2.6K
“ There are a lot of pretty girls. I am a tennis player first of all, that is why I am here, and if wasn't producing results no one would notice me. ”
- Anna Kournikova- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Working with Daddy - it's sort of like playing tennis against somebody, instead of just hitting them into a hedge where they sort of go in, you know. ”
- Hayley Mills- Copy
- 2.7K
“ Jimmy Connors plays two tennis matches and winds up with $850,000, and Muhammad Ali fights one bout and winds up with five million bucks. Me, I play one-hundred and ninety games, and I'm overpaid! ”
- Johnny Bench- Copy
- 3.5K
“ I felt like I was kind of back living a normal lifestyle, just with a regular job of going to the studio every day. That really was a break for me, actually. ”
- Avril Lavigne- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Tennis can be a grind and there's always the danger of going stale if you think about it too much. You can get embittered if you train too hard and have nothing else on your mind. You have to be able to relax between matches and between tournaments. ”
- Maureen Connolly- Copy
- 3.1K
“ I really try not to read the tennis articles, because a lot of times they're guessing at how a player is feeling, and I like to keep myself kind of open minded about how I'm feeling, rather than have someone else explain to me what's going on. ”
- Jim Courier- Copy
- 1K
“ Tennis is more than just a sport. It's an art, like the ballet. Or like a performance in the theater. When I step on the court I feel like Anna Pavlova. Or like Adelina Patti. Or even like Sarah Bernhardt. I see the footlights in front of me. I hear the whisperings of the audience… ”
- Bill Tilden- Copy
- 3.6K
“ When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his forties shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again. ”
- Hugo Black- Copy
- 2.8K
“ In other games you get another chance. In baseball you get three cracks at it; in tennis you lose only one point. But in golf the loss of one shot has been responsible for the loss of heart. ”
- Tommy Armour- Copy
- 174
“ In these days of modern tennis a player is as strong as his weakest stroke. ”
- William T. Tilden II- Copy
- 3.4K
“ Swinging at daisies is like playing electric guitar with a tennis racket: if it were that easy, we could all be Jerry Garcia. The ball changes everything. ”
- Michael Bamberger- Copy
- 707
“ I asked my doctors if I'd be able to play singles tennis and they said I could. That made me very happy since I haven't played in five years. ”
- Walter Cronkite- Copy
- 2.1K
“ I would as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down. ”
- Robert Frost- Copy
- 3.9K
“ Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else. ”
- Joseph Heller- Copy
- 3.7K
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