Top 10 Tennis Quotes
I like a little fun now and then. Tennis wouldn’t be tennis without a few quotes to bat around, would it? I don’t know who decided these were the top 10, but if you’ve got a great tennis quote - put it in a comment below. Top 10 is subjective, right?
“Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquility.” - Billie Jean King
“In tennis the addict moves about a hard rectangle and seeks to ambush a fuzzy ball with a modified snow-shoe.” - Elliot Chaze
“The fifth set is not about tennis; it is about nerves.” Boris Becker
“When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn’t play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again.” - Hugo Black
“Good shot, bad luck and hell are the five basic words to be used in a game of tennis, though these, of course, can be slightly amplified.” - Virginia Graham
“I’ll let the racket do the talking.” - John McEnroe
“Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you’re too damned old to do anything about it.” - Jimmy Connors
“The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I’ll never be as good as the wall.” - Mitch Hedberg
“Tennis and golf are best played, not watched.” - Roger Kahn
“Whoever said, ‘It’s not whether you win or lose that counts,’ probably lost.” - Martina Navratilova
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1 opinion for Top 10 Tennis Quotes
Tomaz
Oct 31, 2007 at 11:50 pm
Great quotes, Erica.
I can’t think of any other ones but here’s my quote that my students found cool:
“When I play a match, I don’t believe anything I think.”
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