Tennis Players Quotes

Our view is that the very best data miners or statisticians can earn as much as the very best golfers or tennis players.

I think I'm realising that careers for tennis players are very short. On the women's side now, players are starting to peak later on, but the average age is about 31, 32 when you finish playing, so I want to make the most of it while I'm young, fit, and healthy. I don't want to waste any time.

Tennis is so competitive. I guess that's the way it has to be.

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

Once the US Open is over in the States, mainstream America doesn't really follow tennis, unless you are a true tennis fan.

Professional tennis has become an extremely physical and unbelievably competitive sport. Injuries are the bane of tennis players, and it goes with the territory.

I still get goose-bumps when I walk into the All England Lawn Tennis Club at the start of tournament and that will never change.

I wouldn't have wanted to be in any other era. Chrissie Evert, Martina Navratilova, Virginia Wade, Evonne Goolagong and Margaret Court were fabulous people, and I made great friends along the way.

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.

Nothing against the Olympics. I played in 2012 and it was an incredible experience. It's different for tennis players than for swimmers and track and field athletes. That's the pinnacle of their sport and not so much the pinnacle of tennis.

People always look shocked when I tell them the Cincinnati Open is one of my favorite tournaments.

I don't watch much tennis, never really have.

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.

Tennis players we're always playing in center courts that feel like arenas. And when we get on the court and the crowd cheers your name or salutes you - it's like you're a gladiator in the arena. And everyone is cheering - and you're fighting, you're screaming, during your strokes - it feels like you're an animal, fighting for your life.

I was always in the tennis business-from 1968. I was in tournaments and also on World Team Tennis teams as well.

As you know, I was one of the original grunters. But Jimmy Connors used to grunt way before I was born. I never knew I was grunting, it was just part of my strokes.

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've played with Mardy Fish a lot. Played with him, I think, two years ago in one of the weekend rounds.

The poet Melvin B. Tolson once said, 'A civilization is judged only in its decline.' That made sense to me. I would imagine the same is true for poets and tennis players.

Rafa and Roger, they have completely different games.

You hear a few people saying that, you know, maybe some of the past male players like to watch me play or whatever else, just because I play a bit differently and maybe they can relate to it a bit more with a bigger forehand rather than a backhand, good serve and whatnot.

I'm just glad Open tennis is here. It's great for the game. That's more important.

I grew up in the USTA's junior circuit.

Tennis players shouldn't get married. It hurts your game.

When the Williams sisters play tennis, it gets pretty hot. When they start grunting, I'm in.