Tennis a game played between two or four people on a special playing area that involves hitting a small ball across a central net using a racket. Profoundly inspirational tennis quotes will challenge the way you think, and make your life worth living.
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Famous Tennis Quotes
Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work. I had to put in the time to get back. And it was a grind. Andre Agassi
Like most North Americans of his generation, Hal tends to know way less about why he feels certain ways about the objects and pursuits he’s devoted to than he does about the objects and pursuits themselves. It’s hard to say for sure whether this is even exceptionally bad, this tendency. David Foster Wallace
One of the things it taught me is that every ball that comes to me, I have to make a decision. Billie Jean King
Tennis taught me so many lessons in life. One of the things it taught me is that every ball that comes to me, I have to make a decision. I have to accept responsibility for the consequences every time I hit a ball. Billie Jean King
Tennis is, more than most sports, a sport of the mind. Rafael Nadal
I have no sense of humor about losing. Rafael Nadal
Tennis is a tough sport there are no draws. Roger Federer
LaMont, the truth is that the world is incredibly, incredibly, unbelievably old. You suffer with the stunted desire caused by one of its oldest lies. Do not believe the photographs. Fame is not the exit from any cage. David Foster Wallace
Tennis has given me soul. Martina Navratilova
I didn’t cry when they buried my father I wouldn’t let myself. I didn’t cry when they buried my sister. On Thursday night, with my family asleep upstairs, my eyes filled as Agassi and Marcos Baghdatis played out the fifth set of their moving second round match. Greg Garber
If you don’t lose, you cannot enjoy the victories. So I have to accept both things. Rafael Nadal
She felt about a love set as a painter does about his masterpiece; each ace serve was a form of brushwork to her, and her fantastically accurate shot placing was certainly a study in composition. Janet Flanner
I’ll let the racket do the talking. John McEnroe
The public never appears to tire of endless courses of strawberries and cream, and the theory that you run the risk of boring people with endless photo montages of the Chelsea Pensioners in their dress reds, or close ups of a Pimm’s Cup sprouting all kinda of flora, has yet to be proven. People like Wimbledon in the same way they like blue jeans or even their own spouses for the pleasure yielded by their reliable sameness. Peter Bodo
I want my tennis to speak for everything. Maria Sharapova
The day you give priority to bogus ethics over human reactions, you become a loser. Human reactions are priceless. Rules should never, ever stifle emotions. Tennis is a very human game facing a great danger that it will be strangulated in a cat’s cradle of unnecessary or inhumane rules. Ted Tinling
I play each point like my life depends on it. Rafael Nadal
What if, when Tracy Austin writes that after her 1989 car crash, ‘I quickly accepted that there was nothing I could do about it,’ the statement is not only true but exhaustively descriptive of the entire acceptance process she went through? David Foster Wallace
You’ll hear a lot of applause in your life, fellas, but none will mean more to you than that applause from your peers. I hope each of you hears that at the end. Andre Agassi
In most sports, like in tennis, love means nothing. Wyatt Allen
I’m really trying to focus myself on playing tennis, and I think that’s really important. Stefan Edberg
But if tennis is life, then what follows tennis must be the unknowable void. The thought makes me cold. Andre Agassi
When I was serving for the match, there was a sense of how big a moment that is in British tennis history. It’s great to have finally done it. Andy Murray
In the brief respite, James tore up part of the flooring and leaped down into an underground vault or drain. Unluckily for him, he had recently caused the egress from this chamber to be walled up because his tennis balls had sometimes been lost there. Gordon Donaldson
I think, for me, I just really want to have fun with every match that I play because tennis is a game. Naomi Osaka
I love your tennis skirt darling you look beautiful but so much work needed to be done on you in order to suit it nicely. Nozipho N. Maphumulo
Tennis is a fine balance between determination and tiredness. Virginia Wade
To turn black women into objectified others was to underline their difference; they may be beautiful, but they are of another kind, separate from the dominant understanding of attractiveness. Anne Helen Petersen
The fifth set is not about tennis, it’s about nerves. Boris Becker
Life is life tennis Those who serve best usually win. David Foster Wallace
When the last point is done, we are humans. Give your opponent a hug and say, great fight, and that’s all. Novak Djokovic
Tennis the most perfect combination of athleticism, artistry, power, style, and wit a beautiful game, but one so remorselessly travestied by the passage of time. Martin Amis
The ball is round, the game is long. Bjorn Borg
By batting a ball back and forth over a net one forgets all one’s worries, one even forgets about death. Marty Rubin
I don’t think, that you can ever get your game to perfection, you know. Only if you’re Federer. Novak Djokovic
And of one thing I have no doubt the more you train, the better your feeling. Tennis is, more than most sports, a sport of the mind; it is the player who has those good sensations on the most days, who manages to isolate himself best from his fears and from the ups and downs in morale a match inevitably brings, who ends up being world number one. Rafael Nadal
Tennis is a psychological sport, you have to keep a clear head. That is why I stopped playing. Boris Becker
Her mouth opens in a shocked little o, and I know I’ve got her. Now that we’re not teammates, I’m going to make Harley mine. Anita Knight
It’s shocking how little there is to do with tennis when you’re just thinking about nothing except winning every point. Andre Agassi
Life is like tennis. Those who serve best usually win. David Foster Wallace
Tennis is mostly mental. Of course, you must have a lot of physical skill but you can’t play tennis well and not be a good thinker. You win or lose the match before you even go out there. Venus Williams
The Williams sisters had something else: each other, and their absolute dominance. Anne Helen Petersen
One important key to success is self confidence. An important key to self confidence is preparation. Arthur Ashe
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What is the single most important quality of a tennis champion? I would have to say desire staying in there and winning matches when you are not playing that well. John McEnroe
The fifth set is not about tennis, it’s about nerves. Boris Becker
Whoever said, It’s not whether you win or lose that counts, probably lost. Martina Navratilova
When love is part of a game, it means nothing. When love is love, it means everything. Kate McGahan
Every time I hit the ball on the wall I used to pretend I was there Wimbledon. When I went to sleep I used to pretend I was there. Evonne Goolagong Cawley
Prove the nay sayers wrong. Leave being average to others. You could be the one who changes the way the world spins. Frank Giampaolo
In sports, you simply aren’t considered a real champion until you have defended your title successfully. Winning it once can be a fluke; winning it twice proves you are the best. Althea Gibson
Well, with that filly in my line of vision blushing like a virgin, something in me was bound to stand at attention. And my walking legs were occupied. A.G. Starling
I always believe if you’re stuck in a hole and maybe things aren’t going well you will come out stronger. Everything in life is this way. Roger Federer
During a match, you are in a permanent battle to fight back your everyday vulnerabilities, bottle up your human feelings. It’s a kind of self hypnosis, a game you play, with deadly seriousness, to disguise your own weaknesses from yourself, as well as from your rival. Rafael Nadal i Farreras
Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome. Arthur Ashe
Spectacular performances are preceded by spectacular preparation. Frank Giampaolo
I hate to lose more than I love to win. Jimmy Connors
Humility is the recognition of your limitations, and it is from this understanding, and this understanding alone, that the drive comes to work hard at overcoming them. John Carlin
I am lucky that whatever fear I have inside me, my desire to win is always stronger. Serena Williams
In any game, the game itself is the prize, no matter who wins, ultimately both lose the game. Amit Kalantri
I never look back, I look forward. Steffi Graf
Fifteen love, Chris said in a strong, clear voice as he set up for his next serve, and Elizabeth sensed that in addition to announcing the score, he was sending her a special message. A message about love. Francine Pascal
Ever tried, ever failed, no matter, try again, fail again. Fail better. Stan Wawrinka
