I have to use other things to help my tennis, like my brain. But I believe that, even when your muscles are not so fast, with the brain and with concentration you can compensate. – Marion Bartoli
No matter what happens, tennis is still tennis: You can see a lot of great matches, a lot of new people. – Marat Safin
I’m not saying I’m something special. I might play a little better tennis than other people, but it is because I was given the chance, and not many people are. – Martina Hingis
It’s one thing if you live in London and you’re rooting for Chelsea or you’re in New York and you love the Giants or Jets and no matter who’s on the team you’re into it. It’s different in tennis; you’re sort of your own guy, so you have to reach out and grab a person in a different way. – John McEnroe
I’ve been athletic since I was a kid. My parents got me playing tennis when I was seven years old and I started to play competitively. – Lisa Rinna
Actors need bricks to play with, and in fact we rejected all the improvised fragments we had made without a plan. Improvisation without a plan is like tennis without tennis balls. – Lars von Trier
If you’re working with someone who you get on with and you’re supposed to hate them on the screen, then you get this playful challenge thing where you’re trying to one-up each other and that’s really interesting. Sometimes it can become like tennis. The harder you hit the ball back, then the harder the hit it back to you. – Joseph Morgan
I spent a whole year when I was injured just trying to get my arm back to the point where I could hit a tennis ball for more than 30 minutes a day. I’d hit for 15 minutes and it would feel as if my arm was going to fall off. – Maria Sharapova
I started when I was 8 years old, which is obviously nowadays pretty late, but I guess in my generation it was all right. I had plenty of other interests and I didn’t do only tennis. – Jana Novotna
My kids know the importance of being active – and that’s why teaming up with the USTA was such an organic fit for me. They are making strives to get families outside – and using tennis as a way to get kids to stay active. – Laila Ali
These girls play tennis first and foremost, the fact that many of them are very glamorous is a major bonus for any promoter. – John Lindsay
I grew up in the 1950s at the beginning of rock n’ roll, and would strum a tennis racket in front of the mirror. – Jonathan Pryce
I just wanted to play tennis. I started because I wanted to pick up another sport and then as I was slowly getting better I wanted to see how far I can go but I always wanted to be myself. I wanted to be original. I didn’t want to copy anybody’s style. – Jana Novotna
After being on the court for six hours, being on TV is very glamorous and fun for me. But tennis is always going to be my priority. It’s not going to be this thing when all of a sudden TV will get in the way of that. – Maria Sharapova
I don’t have too much spare time, but I try to play games as much as possible. I played a little growing up, but I never played any tennis games before. – Lleyton Hewitt
It wasn’t my tennis that made me lose, it was a lot of different things going on, high drama, high emotion. – Jennifer Capriati
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. – Lleyton Hewitt
My only wish would be to have 10 more lives to live on this planet. If that were possible, I’d spend one lifetime each in embryology, genetics, physics, astronomy and geology. The other lifetimes would be as a pianist, backwoodsman, tennis player, or writer for the ‘National Geographic.’ – Joseph Murray