Quotes and Sayings about Tennis

Quotes and Sayings about Tennis

Perfection is impossible. In the 1,526 singles matches I played in my career, I won almost 80% of those matches. But what percentage of points did I win? 54%! In other words, even top ranked tennis players win barely more than half the points they play. When you lose every second point on average, you learn not to dwell on every shot.

Roger Federer - June 2024

Tennis is a mental game. Everyone is fit, everyone hits great forehands and backhands.

Novak Djokovic

Sometimes, I feel like I'm 40. Tennis years are like dog years.

Boris Becker

When I'm not losing, the other guy can't win.

Boris Becker

Every good tennis player has to have a short memory.

Alexander Zverev

Physically, the top players are on a different level to other players, and that's why they're on the top.

Alexander Zverev

I'll let the racket do the talking.

John McEnroe

There's a lot of ingredients go into being a good tennis player.

Being number two sucks.

André Agassi

Ambition Winning

When you do something best in life, you don't really want to give that up - and for me it's tennis.

Roger Federer

The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I'll never be as good as a wall.

Mitch Hedberg

Tennis is just a game, family is forever.

Serena Williams

I let my racket do the talking. That's what I am all about, really. I just go out and win tennis matches.

Pete Sampras

For my fifth birthday, I got a small tennis racket. That's how I started.

Ana Ivanovic

Sport doesn't know barriers, really. You are judged on your performance... how far you can jump, how fast you can run, how well you can hit a tennis ball.

Martina Navratilova

Tennis has given me soul.

Martina Navratilova

All I cared about in tennis was winning.

Pete Sampras

Tennis makes me so mad! Why doesn't anyone catch the ball?

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Boris Becker

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The best way is not to read as much from the media and what they write.

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Pete Sampras

Ambition Sports

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I want the same thing I've wanted since I was 7 years old. I want to be No. 1.

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When you have the opportunity, you strike!

What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.

André Agassi

If believing in yourself and going after what you want in life and realising your worth is ruthless and selfish, then I'm definitely ruthless and selfish.

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Ambition Egoism

Winning isn't getting ahead of others, it is getting ahead of yourself.

Roger Staubach

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Mitch Hedberg

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Friendship Family

Quitting is never an option.

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