These Tennis quotes will inspire you. Tennis is a racket sport that can be played individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles).
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging Tennis quotes, Tennis sayings, and Tennis proverbs.
Best Tennis Quotes
- “I fear no one, but respect everyone.” ~ Roger Federer
- “You’ve got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.” ~ Arthur Ashe
- “Losing is not my enemy..fear of losing is my enemy.” ~ Rafael Nadal
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“Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.” ~ Arthur Ashe
- “Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work” ~ Andre Agassi
- “What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.” ~ Andre Agassi
- “Greatest thing in life: Winning a tennis match. Second greatest thing in life: Losing a tennis match” ~ Jimmy Connors , Tennis quotes about life
- “The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I’ll never be as good as a wall.” ~ Mitch Hedberg
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“Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner.” ~ Arthur Ashe
- “I never look back, I look forward.” ~ Steffi Graf
- “If you don’t practice you don’t deserve to win.” ~ Andre Agassi
- “Tennis was always sort of a – a learning. It was a vehicle for me to discover a lot about myself.” ~ Andre Agassi
- “Just go out there and do what you’ve got to do.” ~ Martina Navratilova
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“Tennis is a fine balance between determination and tiredness.” ~ Virginia Wade
- “Equipment’s the biggest change. And the guys have been getting bigger, stronger, more athletic – so the game has become more of a track meet instead of a tennis match, in a sense.” ~ John McEnroe
- “Why has slamming a ball with a racquet become so obsessive a pleasure for so many of us? It seems clear to me that a primary attraction of the sport is the opportunity it gives to release aggression physically without being arrested for felonious assault.” ~ Nat Hentoff
- “I call tennis the McDonald’s of sport – you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you’re out.” ~ Pat Cash
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“Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.” ~ Billie Jean King
- “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.” ~ James M. Barrie
- “A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.” ~ Billie Jean King , Tennis quotes about winning
- “You have to want to play it all day, every day to get to the top.” ~ Monica Seles
- “Whoever said, ‘It’s not whether you win or lose that counts,’ probably lost.” ~ Martina Navratilova
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“Tennis is an addiction that once it has truly hooked a man will not let him go.” ~ Russell Lynes
- “To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when no one else will.” ~ Sugar Ray Robinson
- “Champions keep playing until they get it right.” ~ Billie Jean King
- “An otherwise happily married couple may turn a mixed doubles game into a scene from Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf.” ~ Rod Laver
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“The next point – that’s all you must think about.” ~ Rod Laver
- “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 Black
- “I submit that tennis is the most beautiful sport there is and also the most demanding. It requires body control, hand-eye coordination, quickness, flat-out speed, endurance, and that weird mix of caution and abandon we call courage. It also requires smarts. Just one single shot in one exchange in one point of a high-level match is a nightmare of mechanical variables.” ~ David Foster Wallace
- “Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you’re too damned old to do anything about it.” ~ Jimmy Connors
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“Tennis is a psychological sport, you have to keep a clear head. That is why I stopped playing.” ~ Boris Becker
- “It is never too late to get into tennis! While I started playing at the age of 8 when my parents gave me a tennis racquet for Christmas, tennis is a lifelong sport that can be enjoyed by people of almost any age. It’s also something you never forget once you learn.” ~ Samantha Stosur
- “In tennis the addict moves about a hard rectangle and seeks to ambush a fuzzy ball with a modified snow-shoe.” ~ Elliott Chaze
- “The serve was invented so that the net could play.” ~ Bill Cosby
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“If you’re a champion, you have to have it in your heart.” ~ Chris Evert
- “Tennis takes care of everything. It requires agility and quickness to get to the ball, core strength to get power into your shorts and stamina to last for an entire match. In addition to toning your arms and shoulders, it’s a total body workout for your legs and abs, and works your heart and core unlike any other sport.” ~ Samantha Stosur
- “Control the things you can control .” ~ Samantha Stosur
- “Tennis is what I do and is part of who I am.” ~ Jennifer Capriati
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“I have this terrible dark side to my personality, which playing tennis keeps at bay” ~ Monica Seles
- “I never knew I was grunting, it was just part of my strokes.” ~ Monica Seles
- “My motto is: I’m alive, so that means I can do anything.” ~ Venus Williams
- “Tennis is mostly mental. You win or lose the match before you even go out there.” ~ Venus Williams
- “Tennis was always sort of a – a learning. It was a vehicle for me to discover a lot about myself. And the things that I sort of discovered at times I not only didn’t want to see it for myself but I certainly didn’t want millions of people to see it.” ~ Andre Agassi
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“It’s not really a shorter skirt, I just have longer legs” ~ Anna Kournikova
- “To be a tennis champion, you have to be inflexible. You have to be stubborn. You have to be arrogant. You have to be selfish and self-absorbed. Kind of tunnel vision almost.” ~ Chris Evert
- “I often surprise myself. You can’t plan some shots that go in, not unless you’re on marijuana, and the only grass I’m partial to is Wimbledon’s.” ~ Rod Laver
- “Everyone thinks my name is Jerry Laitis and they call me Mr Laitis. What can you do when you have a name that sounds like a disease?” ~ Vitas Gerulaitis
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“My game is a lot about footwork. If I move well, I play well.” ~ Roger Federer
- “My feelings are Yevgeny Kafelnikov should take his prize money when he is done here and go and buy some perspective.” ~ Andre Agassi
- “I didn’t play my best but I won. He was a lucky loser but I think he went out of luck today.” ~ Tim Henman
- “Chris Lloyd came out of the dressing room like a pistol.” ~ Virginia Wade
- “Strangely enough, Kathy Jordan is getting to the net first, which she always does.” ~ Fred Perry
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“Ann’s got to take her nerve by the horns.” ~ Virginia Wade
- “Lloyd did what he achieved with that shot.” ~ Jack Bannister
- “And here’s Zivojinovic, six foot six inches tall and fourteen pounds ten ounces.” ~ Dan Maskell
- “Martina, she’s got several layers of steel out there like a cat with nine lives.” ~ Virginia Wade
- “Those two volleys really could be the story of this match summed up at the end of it.” ~ Barry Davies
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“Lendl has remained throughout as calm as the proverbial iceberg.” ~ Dan Maskell
- “Lleyton Hewitt… his two greatest strengths are his legs, his speed, his agility and his competitiveness.” ~ Pat Cash
- “I started when I was 4, but I didn’t play seriously until I was 8.” ~ Kathy Rinaldi
- “I don’t go out there to love my enemy. I go out there to squash him.” ~ Jimmy Connors , Tennis quotes love
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“Lady, can you speak up a little bit? Indianapolis is a little far from Europe – I can’t hear you.” ~ Marat Safin
- “I can’t become satisfied, because if I get satisfied, I’ll be like, “Oh, I’ve won Wimbledon, I’ve won the U.S. Open. Now can I relax.” But now people are really going to be fighting to beat me.” ~ Serena Williams
- “I am here to play women’s tennis. I’m a lady. Predominantly, most of the time I always like to play ladies.” ~ Serena Williams
- “There’s too much money and too many nice guys around.” ~ John McEnroe
