Everything in tennis is so neat and nice but boxing has sport down to its essence; it is very pure and I like that. – Andy Murray
I haven’t seen the film yet because I just got in from London. In the scenes where the two characters are bantering with each other, it is like bobbing at the net in tennis. – Albert Finney
It’s very expensive to be a professional tennis player with all the travel and the flights and the hotels and everything. – Caroline Wozniacki
Our view is that the very best data miners or statisticians can earn as much as the very best golfers or tennis players. – Anthony Goldbloom
There are a lot of pretty girls. I am a tennis player first of all, that is why I am here, and if wasn’t producing results no one would notice me. – Anna Kournikova
To me, acting is like tennis. You’re only as good as the person you’re playing with, so if you’re playing with Michael C. Hall, what do you have to worry about? – Aimee Garcia
I love tennis with a passion. I challenged Boris Becker to a match once and he said he was up for it but he never called back. I bet I could make him run around. – Boris Johnson
You know growing up in Sweden meant we had a lot of rain when we played tennis. We were taught on clay courts but because of the weather, we had to go indoors a lot. – Bjorn Borg
Like many men who play tennis, when I hit a ball into the net, I tend to look daggers at my racket, reproaching it for playing so badly when I myself have been trying so hard. – Craig Brown
Golf can be tougher than tennis when things go wrong, because you can’t explain things by saying that your opponent played better than you. It’s a cruel sport in that way. – Caroline Wozniacki
If I didn’t love tennis, I wouldn’t be playing. That’s also why I don’t know how long I will be playing because if I start feeling like this is not what I want to do anymore, that there’s not really any reason anymore. – Caroline Wozniacki
This is a dream from when I was kid. I’m playing tennis almost 18 years, and of course everybody’s dream is to play the final of a Grand Slam. – Agnieszka Radwanska
Even if I play backgammon with my coach, I hate to lose. I won’t talk to him for, like, an hour. So imagine how it feels when you lose at tennis. That makes me determined not to lose because I hate it so much. Even at a set down and match point, I always believe I can come back. – Ana Ivanovic
If I’m on holiday, I’m active on the beach, I play tennis, I run, I swim a lot. It’s just about making the workouts fun, I think, and then it doesn’t really feel that bad. – Candice Swanepoel
Ever since that day when I was 11 years old, and I wasn’t allowed in a photo because I wasn’t wearing a tennis skirt, I knew that I wanted to change the sport. – Billie Jean King
It’s true I always try to be as seductive as possible but I wouldn’t be here if I couldn’t play tennis. – Anna Kournikova
I enjoy horse riding, tennis, yoga and running – it helps to clear my head, and I can do bits of yoga in between filming. – Anthony Howell