You don’t just have to be skilled and talented at tennis, but you have to be so physically strong. – Heather Watson
I don’t do a huge amount of physical activity. I play tennis, I work out sporadically, and I eat well and take care of myself. – Harrison Ford
As soon as I step on the court I just try to play tennis and don’t find excuses. You know, I just lost because I lost, not because my arm was sore. – Goran Ivanisevic
Team sports aren’t my thing. I find it easier to pick something up if I can do it at my own speed. And you don’t need a partner to go running, you don’t need a particular place, like in tennis, just a pair of trainers. – Haruki Murakami
I recall waking to the realisation that I was the best table tennis player under 17 in north Manchester and parts of Bury. The satisfaction lasted for half an hour before I saw into the nothingness of things. – Howard Jacobson
Last time I was starstruck was when I met Roger Federer. He is one of the few athletes that I really look up to – incredibly talented both on and off the track and a great role model for tennis. – Henrik Lundqvist
I like to run a lot. I play tennis, and I like doing outdoorsy stuff – fishing, canoeing. – Garrett Neff
Nick Kyrgios, if you don’t want to be a professional tennis player, do something else. – John McEnroe
Many tennis coaches are enablers. They need the job more than the player needs the coach, and if the coach needs the job more than the player needs the coach, he can’t effect change. – Ivan Lendl
So there is not a lot about me that you don’t know other than that I play table tennis. I’m great, I’m great at table tennis! You will look at me and go, ‘How does that dude know how to play that well?’ – Jamie Foxx
With everything else that would swirl around me when I got involved in it, tennis was my main concern. – Jimmy Connors
Tennis was a white, upper-class sport, and I wanted it to be treated like other sports were. – John McEnroe
While classical mechanics correctly predicts the behavior of large objects such as tennis balls, to predict the behavior of small objects such as electrons, we must use quantum mechanics. – Ivar Giaever
To act with a tennis ball and imagine it’s a tentacle, or if you’re in some kind of wilderness film and you go, ‘Okay, we can’t have a grizzly bear here, but imagine when you step over the rock there there’s a grizzly bear.’ I don’t know. They’re tough moments. – Joel Edgerton
Back in East St. Louis, tennis wasn’t the real thing. If you weren’t playing baseball, basketball, football, you were kind of on the outside. – Jimmy Connors
I used to be a columnist for ‘Golf Monthly’ and have contributed articles for national newspapers based on the humour that is in abundance in the game, which is more than can be said of tennis. – Jasper Carrott
I did everything – swimming, dancing, and badminton as well as tennis. It was always tennis that I really loved, though. – Heather Watson
I don’t make a habit of watching tennis matches, but I try to watch all the major finals. I try to make time for that. So unless I have something going with the kids where I can’t, I try to watch, and I enjoy that. – Ivan Lendl
When I was eight and a half, my parents moved to a part of Queens where there was a club nearby. We joined, and if you believe in someone up above, I think I was meant to play tennis. – John McEnroe
Played tennis for years. But you can’t improve at tennis after you’re 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you’re a doubles player. – Jack Nicholson
When I came on the tour, I thought, ‘Why don’t they treat tennis players the same way they look at football players?’ Because I’ve got news for you: when they are on the pitch, they are not saying, ‘Hello, how are you?’ out there. – John McEnroe
I love the feel of hitting the ball hard, the pleasure of a rally. It is these things that make tennis the delightful game that it is. – Helen Wills Moody
Have I ever pretended to be something? I think back in college I think I might have told a girl that I was a professional tennis player once. And then, of course, she had never heard of me so I had to dig deeper. ‘I’m just sort of on the playing satellites. You know, I’m kind of working my way up. I’m not ranked in the top 100 or anything.’ – James Roday