Great Tennis Quotes!
We love great sports quotes! Often these unplanned quotes can help athletes and sports professionals to aim high and reach their ultimate dream for their chosen sport. Many quotes are just truly inspiring that show even the greatest of athletes go through tough times but often find a way to succeed and achieve their goals. Enjoy these memorable and motivating quotes! Free sports quotes from players, coaches, legends ......
The Legends Speak Out
“It was an art and act I came to perfect. It was part of my armoury. I felt if my opponent didn’t know what I was thinking then I was invincible.”
Bjorn Borg
“Jimmy Conners doesn’t like to lose, not even in practice.”
Jimmy Arias
“Foot speed is the most important element in men’s tennis today. With the players bigger and stronger and equipment more powerful, speed is essential.”
Pat McEnroe
“You can have a certain arrogance, and I think that's fine, but what you should never lose, is the respect for the others”
Steffi Graff
“Every Women on the tour should walk up to Billie Jean King and say thank you. For she single-handedly made women’s professional tennis what it is.
Chris Evert
“Champions keep playing until they get it right”
Billie Jean King
“You can be the best ball striker there is. But, if you can’t get to the ball, it doesn’t matter”
Martina Navratilova
“There is a very fine line between undertraining and overtraining, and the spot right between those two extremes is peak perform”
Chris Evert
“Training the body to obey the mind as I have done differs from the more conventional method of getting the mind to obey the body.”
Chris Evert
“You can’t measure success if you have never failed.”
Steffi Graff
“Tennis essentially remains a game of artistry and psychology between two individuals that must be won with brains as well as with the body.”
“Your game is only as good as your second serve.”
John Newcombe
“He has the comfortable middle-class look about him. The English middle class basically don’t have the stomach for a fight.”
Pat Cash on Brit Tim Henman
“Tennis judges are usually frustrated tennis guys who didn’t make it, or it people who want to be around the sport.”
John McEnroe
“There is nothing I wouldn’t do on court in order to win.”
Boris Becker
“I didn’t start a war. Nobody died. I only lost a tennis match, nothing more.
Boris Becker
“You’re always striving to play that perfect match.”
Chris Evert
“Often after I lost a tournament, I’d be out practising harder than ever to make up my mind I wasn’t going to loose the next one.”
Margaret Court