American Tennis Player Quotes

Serena Williams

Andre Agassi

Martina Navratilova

Venus Williams

John McEnroe

Pete Sampras

Andy Roddick

I threw the kitchen sink at him but he went to the bathroom and got his tub.

It's strange. I always dream I win a grand slam When I wake up, it's a nightmare. Now that I've got it, I don't have to wake up like that anymore.

Karma is the universal law of cause and effect. You reap what you sow. You get what you earn. You are what you eat. If you give love, you get love. Revenge returns itself upon the avenger.

Negro women, no less than white women, must be prepared for the responsibilities of citizenship if they are to discharge their duties to the government under which they live and if they are to be capable of watching intelligently their own interests, and of using their ballot in preserving and promoting these interests.

Lucy Diggs Slowe

Tennis is more than just a sport. It's an art, like the ballet. Or like a performance in the theater.

By putting pressure on myself to develop a great game, I had less pressure to win. These days, I tell kids that the way I grew up, it wasn't about winning. It was about playing well, about playing the "right" way. That approach helped me enjoy the game and develop mine to its maximum potential.

I want to go out in my peak. That's my goal. But have I peaked yet?

Serena Williams

Of all my achievements in tennis, I'm probably as proud of my record on clay courts as any of my Wimbledon, U.S. Open or French singles titles.

There is no game like the direct attack. Fancy strokes, while effective to watch, do not bring the results a fast driving game does.

Female athletes are stereotyped by the general population—and usually as homosexuals.

Billie Jean King

New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up.

At Flushing Meadow

He was over at my house every day between fifth grade and eighth grade.

I'm learning to use others' weaknesses. I don't hammer a man's soft spot constantly, because he may strengthen it. I just save it as a trump up my sleeve for moments when I really need a point.

This taught me a lesson, but I'm not sure what it is.

I hope that I have accomplished just one thing: that I have been a credit to tennis and my country.

The whole idea of image is so confused. On the one hand, Madison Avenue is worried about the image of the players in a tennis tour. On the other hand, sports events are often sponsored by the makers of junk food, beer, and cigarettes. What's the message when an athlete who works at keeping her body fit is sponsored by a sugar-filled snack that does more harm than good?

Martina Navratilova

The scoreboard said I lost today, but what the scoreboard doesn't say is what it is I have found. Over the last 21 years, I have found loyalty. You have pulled for me on the court and also in life. I found inspiration. You have willed me to succeed, sometimes even in my lowest moments, and I've found generosity. You have given me your shoulders to stand on to reach for my dreams, dreams I could never have reached without you.