Kimmelmann Tennis Quotes

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

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

Tennis just a game, family is forever. ~ Serena Williams

No athletes talk to themselves like tennis players. Pitchers, golfers, goalkeepers, they mutter to themselves, but tennis players talk to themselves-and answer. Tennis players look like lunatics in a public square. ~ Andre Agassi

All my life I'd woken up to tennis, tennis, tennis. Even if I don't go to practise, I'm thinking about it all day. ~ Serena Williams

If I was the type of person who had tennis, tennis, tennis all the time and I went to bed and ended up dreaming about tennis, I would go nuts. ~ Marat Safin

Tennis doesn't owe me anything. Tennis is one of the fairest sports. It's given me so many extraordinary feelings. ~ David Ferrer

I'm only superstitious on the tennis court. ~ Rafael Nadal

I was always in the tennis business-from 1968. I was in tournaments and also on World Team Tennis teams as well. ~ Billie Jean King

For me the most important thing has always been tennis, and that's what I want to get across the image I want to portray is a hard-working tennis player. ~ Andy Murray

Once the US Open is over in the States, mainstream America doesn't really follow tennis, unless you are a true tennis fan. ~ Pete Sampras

Tennis, imprisoned within fixed boundaries, a patch of an acre, a green rectangle, tries the human soul. A tennis court is like a coffin, only larger. ~ Rita Mae Brown

Even though there are a lot of bright tennis players out there, you still have to protect yourself and save all your mental and emotional energies for tennis. ~ Chris Evert

No one ever asked me if I wanted to play tennis, let alone make it my life. My father decided long before I was born that I would be a professional tennis player. ~ Andre Agassi

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

Never give up. Take what life throws at you and throw it right back. If life keeps throwing then you have a tennis match going. Learn to like tennis. ~ Glenn Ford

Tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love - the basic elements of tennis are those of everyday existence, because every match is a life in miniature. ~ Andre Agassi

Acting with Denzel is like playing tennis with someone that's better than you. You either play better tennis or get blown off the court. ~ Dean Cain

What drove me to become the world's greatest bodybuilder is no different from what drives other athletes to become great tennis players or boxers or jockeys. ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger

Why do I wear tennis shoes? That's two questions. Do I wear tennis shoes? The answer to that question is, "Yes." "Why?" That's a question philosophers have been pondering for centuries. ~ Irwin Corey

Tennis has given me soul. ~ Martina Navratilova

Dating a tennis player is risky - love means nothing to us. ~ Anna Kournikova

Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player. ~ Jack Nicholson

In the States, tennis is sixth or seventh on the totem pole as far as sports go. ~ Andy Roddick

Politicians who wear little tennis socks with the balls at the back should not be taken seriously. ~ Mo Rocca

If you look at tennis, the girls have become much more attractive; they wear makeup. In my generation, you were a tennis player. It wasn't like you had to look a certain way. ~ Monica Seles

You don't go home and talk about the great tennis courts that you played, but you do talk about the golf courses you played. ~ Hank Ketcham

In tennis you move a lot. Golf you don't. In tennis, you can have a bad half-hour, but you can't in golf. You can lose the first set in tennis and still win. ~ Ivan Lendl

In Hollywood people lie to each other and cheat each other and then go and play tennis. But I don't want to be a tennis player. ~ David Geffen

Do you play tennis? Anarchists play a lot of tennis. And Counts do too. Counts and anarchists are the kind of people who, right now, play tennis most. ~ Unai Elorriaga

Life is like a tennis game. You can't win without serving. ~ Arthur Ashe

I have a TV Soap Boomerang award, and I always start my year with the Australian Open tennis! Tennis, soccer, you name it. ~ Doug Davidson

You don't need to know who's playing on the White House tennis court to be a good president. ~ James Baker

Actors need bricks to play with, and in fact we rejected all the improvised fragments we had made without a plan. Improvisation without a plan is like tennis without tennis balls. ~ Lars Von Trier

I was so horrifically bad at tennis. ~ Ted Cruz

To me, Hewitt and Nadal would be the best spirited fighters I've ever seen on the tennis court. ~ Mats Wilander

'Oh and Oh' is a tennis term ... It's a nice way of saying you took your opponent to pieces. ~ Venus Williams

This tennis world, this tennis community, is very much a bubble, and it's very easy to get lost in here. You know, there is a real world out there still. ~ Johanna Konta

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

If a child is poor in math but good at tennis, most people would hire a math tutor. I would rather hire a tennis coach. ~ Deepak Chopra

The Human Species could have been great but instead we became satisfied with lights on our tennis shoes. ~ George Carlin

Tennis is an individual sport, and I am quite a self-conscious person. ~ Andy Murray

Tennis is so competitive. I guess that's the way it has to be. ~ Monica Seles

I don't think the tennis tour is the place to have friends ~ Eugenie Bouchard

I play each point like my life depends on it. ~ Rafael Nadal

I've got more out of tennis than I could ever give back. ~ Andy Roddick

I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down. ~ Robert Frost

I've been around tennis, and I have a feeling for the sport. I still play tennis, and I can still do a lot of harm to a lot of people. ~ Oleg Cassini

I Pray That A Tennis Player Should Emerge From Ranchi As MS Dhoni Emerged For Cricket ~ Sania Mirza

It was reported that Anna Kournikova is coming out with her own brand of deodorant. Apparently, the ads show Kournikova holding up her deodorant and saying now only her tennis game stinks. ~ Conan O'Brien

I am the best tennis player who cannot play tennis. ~ Ion Tiriac

Tennis is an addiction that once it has truly hooked a man will not let him go. ~ Russell Lynes

Acting is a bit like tennis in that you can't really do it on your own. ~ Tom Hiddleston

Polo is like tennis - you literally have to live it. ~ Sylvester Stallone

There are people who live, breathe and dress tennis. ~ Serena Williams

I used to play a lot of tennis and then, next thing you know, same thing with tennis. That banging on the knees, the jarring, twisting motion - I couldn't do it. All of a sudden, every time I played, my knee would swell up. ~ Caitlyn Jenner

If they had rankings in baseball, maybe I would have been able to do the math and figure out my chances of being a professional baseball player versus a tennis player. But that was the decision-maker for me, I just thought I was better in tennis. ~ Jim Courier

I haven't been in tennis for that long, but what I can say is that we have a lot of young guys at the top who are willing to do a lot of good things for tennis in general. ~ Novak Djokovic

This is how you play tennis without the net ~ Sam Harris

He's a haircut and a forehand. ~ Ivan Lendl

Nothing is etched in stone in tennis until the final point has been played. That's why we watch. ~ Dave McPherson

A smile is a curve that can straighten out a lot of problems. ~ Ana Ivanovic

I am happy with being a tennis player and the choice I took when I was 12. But clearly, if I wouldn't have been a tennis player, I would have loved to be a soccer player. But again, I am happy with the choice I made. ~ Rafael Nadal

I feel like my whole life only tennis. ~ Li Na

I actually wanted to be a tennis player. ~ Constance Jablonski

I love tennis. Without it I don't know what I would do. ~ Donald Young

Tennis was a game invented by a woman named Samantha Tennis in 1839, in the village of Lobsworth, County of Kent, as a diversion for the wealthy and titled Englishmen of the region, who had nothing better to do at the time but drink, belch and wear funny clothes. ~ Dan Jenkins

Ask any comedian, tennis player, chef. Timing is everything. ~ Meg Rosoff

Unlike in my young days I'm not able to eat, drink and sleep tennis. ~ Amelie Mauresmo

Golfers are forever working on mechanics. My tennis swing hasn't changed in 10 years. ~ Pete Sampras

I have this terrible dark side to my personality, which playing tennis keeps at bay. ~ Monica Seles

I lost to a better player who played some courageous tennis and deserved to win. ~ Novak Djokovic

The Olympics is not for tennis and tennis does not need the Olympics. It is not my goal in life to win a gold medal. ~ Marat Safin

Women's tennis is two sets of rubbish that lasts only half an hour. ~ Pat Cash

For me, losing a tennis match isn't failure, it's research. ~ Billie Jean King

Tennis has given me this wonderful life and I'm very grateful for it. ~ Maria Sharapova

I always felt tennis and winning was a byproduct of doing everything right. ~ Andre Agassi

I've been playing tennis, and just whatever sport is in front of me I will do. ~ Jeanne Tripplehorn

You know why I want to win? Because of 15,000 reasons inside of the tennis court. ~ Marat Safin

In tennis it's easy to get greedy - and one Grand Slam doesn't feel enough any more. ~ Samantha Stosur

It was very unusual for a boy to play tennis in my country. ~ Novak Djokovic

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

I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments. ~ Arthur Ashe

My country is taking over in tennis ~ Yevgeny Kafelnikov

I'd also made the first tennis team. I was number two player in the school at 11 years of age and that didn't sit very well with people. ~ John Newcombe

It's like getting the Williams sisters to play (tennis) against a man, and they're far better athletes than she (Sorenstam) is. ~ Vijay Singh

I don't think tennis is a glamour game, not at all. ~ Mahesh Bhupathi

It is very important not to think about losing. ~ Venus Williams

My favorite tennis player, who I'm amazed by, is Roger Federer. ~ Doug Davidson

I think that tennis is a lady's sport, so we should look out there like ladies. ~ Anna Kournikova

With everything else that would swirl around me when I got involved in it, tennis was my main concern. ~ Jimmy Connors

Sometimes it's harder to play good tennis with a bad tennis player - the same way it's hard to be a good actor with a bad actor. It's just an unpleasant experience. ~ Josh Lucas

What I want out of tennis is not necessarily just winning. ~ Jennifer Capriati

The serve was invented so that the net could play. ~ Bill Cosby

When Martina is tense it helps her relax. ~ Dan Maskell

I want to play my best tennis at the Grand Slams. ~ Sloane Stephens

I love jeans, T-shirts, boots, and tennis shoes. ~ Ashley Benson

It's shocking how little there is to do with tennis when you're just thinking about nothing except winning every point. ~ Andre Agassi

An idea has no worth at all without believable characters to implement it; a plot without characters is like a tennis court without players. Daffy Duck is to a Buck Rogers story what John McEnroe was to tennis. Personality. That is the key, the drum, the fife. Forget the plot. ~ Chuck Jones

I grew up on the tennis court with lots of other kids. There were like 40 kids all afternoon and I was one of the youngest ones, so I always had to chase everybody to keep up. ~ Martina Hingis