Best Tennis Player Quotes

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.

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

It’s about learning your craft. That’s a wonderful thing–especially with today’s consumerism and instant gratification. You can’tbuy that. It’s about making decisions, corrections, choices. I don’t think it’s so much about becoming a tennis player. It’s about becoming a person.

In Hollywood people lie to each other and cheat each other and then go and play tennis. But I don’t want to be a tennis player.

The world’s No. 1 tennis player spends 90 percent of his time winning, while the world’s No. 1 golfer spends 90 percent of his time losing. Golfers are great losers.

Tennis players go into a press conference, and almost every one of them is the same. We do very little differently on a day-to-day basis.

I was an accomplished junior tennis player up to around fourteen years old. At fourteen or fifteen I made the decision to venture off to make my life 100% music.

I’m actually a pretty good tennis player!

People don’t ask Andre Agassi, ‘You know you’re the No. 1 tennis player in the world… have you thought about polo?’

I admire the way golfers handle themselves. But tennis players are a lot younger, as a rule. There aren’t many teenagers on the golf tour.

People know me. I’m not going to produce any cartwheels out there. I’m not going to belong on Comedy Central. I’ll always be a tennis player, not a celebrity.

Relationships are give-and-take, and when you’re a tennis player, you’re certainly not giving. You have to be self-absorbed. It has to be about you.

I’ve been playing against older and stronger competition my whole life. It has made me a better tennis player and able to play against this kind of level despite their strength and experience.

All teenage girls like to look good and tennis players are no different.

Right now I like baseball, hockey and tennis players. And horseback riders.

I am a hero worshiper. I love the number one tennis player. I love the number one baseball player. I want to see those records broken.

If you don’t practice you don’t deserve to win.

I know some of my self-worth comes from tennis, and it’s hard to think of doing something else where you know you’ll never be thebest. Tennis players are rare creatures: where else in the world can you know that you’re the best? The definitiveness of it is the beauty of it, but it’s not all there is to life and I’m ready to explore the alternatives.

I’m not the next anyone, I’m the first Maria Sharapova.

I’m not the next Kournikova-I want to win matches!

Being number two sucks.

No athletes talk to themselves like tennis players. Pitchers, golfers, goalkeepers, they mutter to themselves, but tennis players talk to themselves-and answer. Tennis players look like lunatics in a public square.

It’s pretty hard being a tennis player and Mother Theresa at the same time and that’s just the way it is.

In my mind, I’m always the best. If I walk out on the court (and) I think the next person is better, I’ve already lost.

A lot of people now think Im a shoe. They dont even know I was a tennis player. The shoe has really taken on a life of its own, way beyond me.

I think all tennis players have to struggle through the early stages of their career. We start off playing tournaments and really just get by. I always had a dream to play in the big tournaments and never have doubted if it was worth it. Having to battle a little early on in my career makes it all the more worthwhile now.

I’m an unbelievable designer. I don’t know how I know and just do these things. I just start sketching and then I just know the colors and I always know the forecast. I know green and purple are going to be hot. I was born to be a designer. I worked hard to be a tennis player, I don’t work hard to be a designer.

I Pray That A Tennis Player Should Emerge From Ranchi As MS Dhoni Emerged For Cricket

Since I don’t look like every other girl, it takes a while to be okay with that. To be different. But different is good.

Because I was a tennis player, Billie Jean King was a hero of mine.

As tennis players, you are never satisfied. We are greedy as players, always want better results.

I think Serena Williams is the best tennis player of this generation, if not the best ever. It is amazing for her to be playing as well as she is at the age of 31.

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

I play each point like my life depends on it.

As a tennis player you can win and you can lose, and you have to be ready for both. I practised self-control as a kid. But as you get older they both – winning and losing – get easier.