Zhulin Tennis Quotes

I think Pete Sampras has really reached his peak. About the only thing he doesn't do is cook. ~ Michael Chang

I often find that pundits are quite negative ... not just in tennis, but in sport in general. I just don't like that. Obviously, the job of a pundit is to create interest and a bit of controversy. I get that. Listeners like that. But I do think there's a duty there to promote the sport and talk about how good these people are at what they do. ~ Andy Murray

Women's tennis is getting faster and the girls are getting more athletic, so I need to push myself to become a better athlete. I think 2013 showed me, like a few other years how important being healthy is and how I must listen to my body. During this off season I have been a little smarter on how I train and how I treat my body. ~ Maria Sharapova

I wanted to emulate my parents - Mum captained India in basketball, and Dad won a bronze in hockey in 1972 Olympics. My focus has always been to achieve excellence whether in the field of tennis, in the corporate field, in the art of acting or in motivating youngsters. ~ Leander Paes

Teach a child to play solitaire, and she'll be able to entertain herself when there's no one around. Teach her tennis, and she'll know what to do when she's on a court. But raise her to feel comfortable in nature, and the whole planet is her home. ~ Joyce Maynard

Tennis Canada nominated me a few years ago, and I did some research into it and realized it's one of the biggest honours you can have as a Canadian. I've seen the list of the people, and it's pretty special. ~ Daniel Nestor

My mom fed us a million balls. Dad took us to tournaments. Couldn't have done it without them. We had a happy tennis family. ~ Mike Bryan

I've got a terrible knee from too much tennis. ~ Ridley Scott

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

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

I have to use other things to help my tennis, like my brain. But I believe that, even when your muscles are not so fast, with the brain and with concentration you can compensate. ~ Marion Bartoli

Vivian was not alone in thinking that a man who spent so much time discussing table tennis was probably a spy. ~ Ben Macintyre

In the history of women's tennis the great players have come back from long absences with no problems. ~ Lindsay Davenport

I like pros, especially when it comes to tennis and rent boys" - and here I'm really wondering if the pun on prose consolidates Bruce's feeling toward it versus poetry under the sign of sex, which Bruce sometimes pays for, in order to direct us toward the pleasure of its use-function when monetised, a pleasure seldom associated with poetry, and one that might lead to the company of more pros. He continues: "If I can get a twofer, and the trick looks like Rafael Nadal, I'm in heaven. ~ Andrew Durbin

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

I just feel like it would be so against my personality to have this struggle in tennis and just give up. I know it's not me, not who I am, and that would probably affect other parts of my life. ~ Michael Chang

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

I don't make friends with the girls I'm playing against. It would be too painful to beat them. ~ Virginia Wade

I lived in Hollywood long enough to
learn to play tennis and become a star,
but I never felt it was my home. ~ Paulette Goddard

It's one-on-one out there, man. There ain't no hiding. I can't pass the ball. ~ Pete Sampras

I guess I get my strength from my legs, which are also important in tennis. ~ Pete Sampras

You are better than you think you are; you can play at a higher level than you think you can; and you have the potential to beat so-called better players. If you're a competitor and not just playing for exercise (and "cardio" tennis is great), don't accept where you are; don't settle for less. Shake yourself up in whatever manner it takes and you'll get results. Like Murray and the Djoker you can turn things around and beat players who are beating you. ~ Anonymous

He'll go down as one of the guys who changed our sport in a lot of ways, not only the way he played the game, but also the way that he conducted himself on and off the court. ~ Lleyton Hewitt

Dreams do come true if you keep believing in yourself. Anything is possible. ~ Jennifer Capriati

I have never been a fan of science fiction. For me, fiction has to explore the combinatorial possibilities of people interacting under the constraints imposed by our biology and history. When an author is free to suspend the constraints, it's tennis without a net. ~ Steven Pinker

The primary conception of tennis is to get the ball over the net and at the same time to keep it within bounds of the court; failing this, within the borders of the neighborhood. ~ Elliott Chaze

But Elise eclipses the woman from Jamey's future, the lady in tennis whites flashing her diamond as she drinks orange juice fresh-squeezed by a maid. A woman Jamey never quite believed in anyway. ~ Jardine Libaire

Back in East St. Louis, tennis wasn't the real thing. If you weren't playing baseball, basketball, football, you were kind of on the outside. ~ Jimmy Connors

Love is nothing in tennis. But in life, it's everything. ~ Jeanette Murray

I help design my own tennis clothes. ~ Maria Sharapova

First of all, let me say, 1:15 in the morning, for 20,000 people to still be here, I wasn't the winner, tennis was. That's awesome. I don't know if I've ever felt so good here before. ~ Andre Agassi

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

[ ... ]but instead of apologizing, I said, 'It's your own fault for playing tennis. ~ Karin Slaughter

Is only a tennis match. At the end, that's life. There is much more important things. ~ Rafael Nadal

On how he met Wayne Gretzky: I was in L.A. preparing for Indian Wells, and a mutual friend asked if I'd like to have dinner with him. I think one of his daughters plays tennis so he knew about me. It was obviously something I was excited to do, and I left the dinner pretty amazed. ~ Milos Raonic

These girls play tennis first and foremost, the fact that many of them are very glamorous is a major bonus for any promoter. ~ John Lindsay

Many tennis coaches are enablers. They need the job more than the player needs the coach, and if the coach needs the job more than the player needs the coach, he can't effect change. ~ Ivan Lendl

I guess it's like James Joyce when he was a kid, you know. He hung out with all the great writers of the day, and he was a little kid, like, with tennis shoes on, and they said 'Look at this lame!' They didn't use those words in those days. They said 'God, here comes this nut.' And he told them, 'I'm great!' And he sat with them, and he loved to be with them, and it ended up that he was great. ~ Art Pepper

Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player. ~ Bill Gates