Tennis Quotes and Sayings
Tennis belongs to the individualistic past – a hero, or at most a pair of friends or lovers, against the world.
Jacques Barzun
Never discuss love with a tennis player, it means nothing to them
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
Life is like a game of tennis; the player who serves well seldom loses
Love is nothing in tennis, but in life it’s everything.
Men hate to lose. I beat my husband once at tennis. I asked him, “Will we ever make love again?” He said, “Yes…. but not with each other.”
Tennis is an addiction that once it has truly hooked a man will not let him go.
Russell Lynes
Love is nothing in tennis, but in life it’s everything.
Ladies, here’s a hint. If you’re up against a girl with big boobs, bring her to the net and make her hit backhand volleys. That’s the hardest shot for the well-endowed.
Billie Jean King
I let my racket do the talking. That’s what I am all about, really. I just go out and win tennis matches.
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
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.
When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn’t play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again.
Hugo L. Black
The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I’ll never be as good as a wall.
An otherwise happily married couple may turn a mixed doubles game into a scene from Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf.
Rod Laver
It’s shocking how little there is to do with tennis when you’re just thinking about nothing except winning every point.
The serve was invented so that the net could play.
Bill Cosby
A good thing is I’ve been playing tennis I think every day for the last two months. I really haven’t had a day off. I’ve been doing things that I did used to do.
But that won’t give me a free hand to hold the beer.
Billy Carter
A great tennis career is something that a 15-year-old normally doesn’t have. I hope my example helps other teens believe they can accomplish things they never thought possible.
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.
Elliot Chaze
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.
A perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquility.
Billie Jean King
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.
Tennis begins with love.
And it was where I learned how to play tennis and eventually became captain of the tennis team at the school and was on the Junior Davis Cup in New York City.
What a polite game tennis is. The chief word in it seems to be “sorry” and admiration of each other’s play crosses the net as frequently as the ball.
J.M. Barrie
Another little known fact about Amazing Tennis – the computer opponents are modeled after real people. In an odd turn of events, I joined a division 3 college tennis team at age 38.
Tennis is not a gentle game. Psychologically, it is vicious. That people are only just beginning to come to terms with this fact illustrates just how big a con trick has been perpetrated on the non-playing tennis public – and even a few players, usually losing players – for decades.
Richard Evans
Anybody who can dial a telephone can master tennis scoring in about 15 minutes.
Speed in tennis is a strange mixture of intuition, guesswork, footwork and hair-trigger reflexes. Many of the players famed for quickness on court would finish dead last in a field of schoolgirls in a race over any distance more than ten yards.
Eugene Scott
As soon as I step on the court I just try to play tennis and don’t find excuses. You know, I just lost because I lost, not because my arm was sore.
In tennis the addict moves about a hard rectangle and seeks to ambush a fuzzy ball with a modified snow-shoe.
Elliot Chaze
Because I was a tennis player, Billie Jean King was a hero of mine.
It’s difficult for most people to imagine the creative process in tennis. Seemingly it’s just an athletic matter of hitting the ball consistently well within the boundaries of the court. That analysis is just as specious as thinking that the difficulty in portraying King Lear on stage is learning all the lines.
Virginia Wade
Billie and I did wonders for women’s tennis. They owe me a piece of their checks.
It’s one-on-one out there, man. There ain’t no hiding. I can’t pass the ball.
Pete
Both of us played basketball, and I played tennis and my knees are done. Now if you ask us head-to-head who wins at golf, I’m asking for a couple of strokes.