Tennis Player Quotes

Roger Federer

Rafael Nadal

Serena Williams

Andre Agassi

Martina Hingis

Martina Navratilova

Venus Williams

The solution to a problem changes the nature of the problem.

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.

They always have big mouths. They always talk a lot. It's happened before, so it's gonna happen again. I don't really worry about that.

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.

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

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.

Let us not rest until we are free to live in dignity in the land of our birth.

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.

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

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

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

Billie Jean King

I call tennis the McDonald's of sport—you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.

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

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.

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

You can have news that (Cristiano) Ronaldo went to the toilet three times a day, and that's the news. I make semi-finals and nothing.

I don't think I have made any deliberate or conscious attempt to represent the new generation. I am what I am.

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

Serena Williams

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

Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning.

However great your dedication, you never win anything on your own

For me the most important thing has always been tennis, and that's what I want to get across the image I want to portray is a hard-working tennis player.

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.

It is 100% satisfaction. When I returned to Buenos Aires after playing Davis Cup in Moscow and Malaga, you had the impression it was my fault and that hurt me. That's why I have enjoyed this moment twice as much because there are many people who have helped me through my difficult moments. Now it's like a revenge.

After winning two titles

I think you need inspiration, motivation from different angles to keep you going, because it isn't that simple just to wake up every morning and go for another travel around the world, another practice, all these other things; another fitness workout, another stretch. It's always nice, but you need to have some success and you need to have the right reasons why you're doing it. I think I've always been able to do that and I really enjoy myself out on the court.