Tennis Quotes

Published September 25, 2010

Pakistan has a lot of talent and there is a need to introduce tennis at the school level.
— Aisam-ul-Haq

Champions keep playing until they get it right.
— Billie Jean King

If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life.
— Chris Evert

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

My game is a lot about footwork. If I move well — I play well.
— Roger Federer

I'll let the racket do the talking.
— John McEnroe

When you lose a couple of times, it makes you realise how difficult it is to win.
— Steffi Graf

Tennis a racquet sport in which two players compete to see who has the shortest temper, the worst memory, the poorest eyesight, and the slowest watch.
— Anonymous

My motto is I'm alive, so that means I can do anything.
— Venus Williams

The mark of great sportsmen is not how good they are at their best, but how good they are at their worst.
— Martina Navratilova

I'd like to think that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.
— Venus Williams

I have always considered tennis as a combat in an arena between two gladiators who have their racquets and their courage as their weapons.
— Yannick Noah

Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.
— Billie Jean King

— Compiled by The Surfer

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