Best Great Tennis Quotes

Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.

True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.

You’ve got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.

From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.

The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.

One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.

Tennis is mostly mental. You win or lose the match before you even go out there.

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

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

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.

I’m going to have to pick my shots and play great tennis.

I feel like I have as good a shot as anybody out there and I have gotten close in the past, so why not have the attitude that I can come out and play great tennis and maybe even win this tournament.

Id rather be able to play great tennis at a slam than make eight finals of little tournaments and then lose first round of a slam. That doesnt sound too good.

Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you’re too damned old to do anything about it.

I’d like to think I could have and should have won more, but that’s not the point. And I was at the point where I was playing great tennis in the mid 80s – the type of tennis people hadn’t seen before – and I was very proud of that.

You don’t go home and talk about the great tennis courts that you played, but you do talk about the golf courses you played.

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

What drove me to become the world’s greatest bodybuilder is no different from what drives other athletes to become great tennis players or boxers or jockeys.