150 Best Tennis Quotes & Famous Quotes from Tennis Players

Are you a focused tennis player looking to be the one? Becoming the greatest player of all time is not that easy. You need to motivate yourself every day to give your best and learn from your past. Continued work and dedication turn players into champions. So, if you want to become like them, start reading their quotes. These Tennis Quotes are filled with mixed emotions and the spirit to win the goal they dream off.

 

Catchy Tennis Quotes

• “Just go out there and do what you have to do.” – Martina Navratilova
• “Being champion is all well and good, but you can’t eat a crown.” – Althea Gibson
• “You are never really playing an opponent. You are playing yourself, your own highest standards, and when you reach your limits, that is real joy.”
• “Tennis belongs to the individualistic past – a hero, or at most a pair of friends or lovers, against the world.”
• “Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner.” – Arthur Ashe
• “From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.” – Arthur Ashe
• “Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.” – John McEnroe
• “Losing is not my enemy, fear of losing is my enemy.” – Rafael Nadal
• “Dreams do come true if you keep believing in yourself. Anything is possible.” – Jennifer Capriati
• “Tennis is mostly mental. Of course, you must have a lot of physical skill but you can’t play tennis well and not be a good thinker. You win or lose the match before you even go out there.”
• “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
• “If you’re a champion, you have to have it in your heart.” – Chris Evert

 

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Best Tennis Quotes

• “You don’t have to hate your opponents to beat them.” – Kim Clijsters
• “If you can keep playing tennis when somebody is shooting a gun down the street, that’s concentration.”
• “Though your game is hardly the best, you can fray your opponent’s nerves, by methodically bouncing the ball, at least ten times before your serves.”
• “Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquility.”
• “You’ve got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.” – Arthur Ashe
• “Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome.” – Arthur Ashe
• “What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.” – Andre Agassi
• “You have to believe in the long term plan you have but you need the short term goals to motivate and inspire you.” – Roger Federer
• “Tennis: the most perfect combination of athleticism, artistry, power, style, and wit. A beautiful game, but one so remorselessly travestied by the passage of time.”
• “The mark of great sportsmen is not how good they are at their best, but how good they are at their worst.” – Martina Navratilova
• “Spectacular performances are preceded by spectacular preparation”. – Frank Giampaolo
• Tennis is an addiction that once it has truly hooked a man will not let him go.”
• “Winning is a way of expressing yourself.” – Boris Becker
• “The fifth set is not about tennis, it’s about nerves.” – Boris Becker
• “Tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love — the basic elements of tennis are those of everyday existence, because every match is a life in miniature.” – Andre Agassi

 

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Famous Quotes About Tennis

• “Be Bold. If you’re going to make an error, make a doozy, and don’t be afraid to hit the ball.” — Billie Jean King
• “In tennis, it is not the opponent you feat, it is the failure itself, knowing how near you were but just out of reach.” — Andy Murray
• “We only have one life and one body to care of, and we better do it right. You never know what tomorrow may bring and so we better live this life the best we can and be grateful for everything we have.” — Novak Djokovic
• “Everybody’s going to have expectations so you just have to be in your own world.” — Iga Swiatek
• “What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.” — Andre Agassi
• “Losing a tennis match isn’t failure, it’s research” — Billie Jean King
• “Tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love – the basic elements of tennis are those of everyday existence because every match is a life in miniature.” — Andre Agassi
• “One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.” — Arthur Ashe
• “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” — Arthur Ashe
• “The time your game is most vulnerable is when you’re ahead, never let up.” — Rod Laver
• “My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that i have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.” — Björn Borg
• “What you have in your mind is usually much more important than what other people think or talk about you.” — Danil Medvedev

 

 

Funny Quotes About Tennis

• “The difference between involvement and commitment is like ham and eggs. The chicken is involved; the pig is committed.” – Martina Navratilova
• “Love means nothing in tennis, but it’s everything in life.” – Jeanette Murray
• “I’ll let the racket do the talking.” – John McEnroe
• “Whoever said, ‘It’s not whether you win or lose that counts,’ probably lost.” – Martina Navratilova
• “You only live once, but you get to serve twice.” – Samuel Sorban
• “The tennis ball doesn’t know how old I am. The ball doesn’t know if I’m a man or a woman or if I come from a communist country or not. Sport has always broken down these barriers.” – Martina Navratilova
• “In tennis, the addict moves about a hard rectangle and seeks to ambush a fuzzy ball with a modified snow-shoe.” – Elliot Chaze
• “The older I get, the better I used to be.” – John McEnroe
• “For me losing a tennis match isn’t a failure, it’s research.” – Billie Jean King
• “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
• “Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.” – John McEnroe
• “The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I’ll never be as good as a wall.” – Mitch Hedberg

 

 

Good Tennis Quotes

• “I don’t want to waste a single day of my life being stagnant or staying still and not elevating myself through experiences.” – Stefanos Tsitsipas, Greek tennis player
• “Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.” – Roger Crawford, Tennis player
• “Tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love – the basic elements of tennis are those of everyday existence, because every match is a life in miniature.” – Andre Agassi, American tennis player
• “Sometimes life doesn’t go as planned and you just gotta find joy in the unknown.” – Naomi Osaka, Japanese tennis player
• “Life is a lot more beautiful when you have to struggle and fight for something, you know. It’s always a little sweeter at the end when, you know, when you get what you want.” – Mark Philippoussis, Australian tennis coach
• “The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. Life is a learning process and you have to try to learn what’s best for you.” – John McEnroe, American tennis player
• “You always need to try hard to find solutions. It’s the same in life or tennis.” – Stan Wawrinka, Swiss tennis player
• “Life makes you who you are, and my career in my tennis and my travels, the people that I’ve met, the cultures, I think that makes all that — it makes me who I am.” – Steffi Graf, German tennis player
• “The positive attitude that gets you through life, and it is a choice. I’ve always been too much of an optimist where I sort of ignore bad stuff until it sits right here in front of me.” – Martina Navratilova, American tennis player

 

 

Great Tennis Quotes

• “Tennis is a mental game. Everyone is fit, everyone hits great forehands and backhands.” – Novak Djokovic
• “It’s not the hours you put in your work that counts. It’s the work you put in the hours.” – Sam Ewing
• “You have to believe in the long-term plan you have, but you need the short-term goals to motivate and inspire you.” – Roger Federer
• “Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquility.” – Billie Jean King
• “Don’t count the days; make the days count.” – Muhammad Ali
• “You don’t have to be pretty for people to come and watch you play. At the same time, if you’re a good athlete, it doesn’t mean you’re not a woman.” – Martina Navratilova
• “I’ve lost many times, and that’s what has made me successful.” – Serena Williams
•  “I play each point like my life depends on it.” – Rafael Nadal
• “In tennis, it is not the opponent you fear; it is the failure itself, knowing how near you were but just out of reach.” – Andy Murray
• “It’s not the hours you put in your work that counts; it’s the work you put in the hours.” – Sam Ewing
• “The serve was invented so that the net could play.” – Bill Cosby
• “It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” – Charles Darwin
• “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston S. Churchill
• “Tennis is a great game, and I can’t stop being a part of it.” – Sania Mirza
• “The fifth set is not about tennis; it’s about nerves.” – Boris Becker
• “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs

 

 

Inspirational Quotes About Tennis

• “I can live with losing, I can’t live without taking my chance.” — Andre Agassi
• “Tennis is a perfect combination of a violent action taking place in atmosphere of total tranquility.” — Billie Jean King
• “I want my tennis to speak for everything.” — Maria Sharapova
• “Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.” — Arthur Ashe
• “In the end, it is about trying, failing, and improving.” — Carlos Alcaraz
• “If you’re afraid of losing, then you daren’t win” — Björn Borg
• “Give it everything you’ve got. Leave nothing out there.” — Andy Murray
• “Pressure is a privilege – it only comes to those who earn it.” — Billie Jean King
• “Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose – it teaches you about life.” — Billie Jean King
• You can’t measure success if you have never failed.” — Steffi Graf
• “At one point in your life, you’ll have the thing you want or the reasons why you don’t.” – Andy Roddick, American tennis player
• “You can do anything in this life whether you’re in a wheelchair or not. I go to festivals, nightclubs, I travel the world.” – Dylan Alcott, Australian tennis player
• “Dust yourself down and take it from the top, life is a journey and this is mine.” – Emma Raducanu, British tennis player
• “Sport always teaches you that no matter how many odds are against you, you can come through them.” – Sania Mirza, Indian tennis player
• “Never give up. Take what life throws at you and throw it right back. If life keeps throwing then you have a tennis match going. Learn to like tennis.” – Glenn Ford

 

 

Famous Quotes from Tennis Players

• “Your personal life is much more important than your sporting one and your personal life, god willing, is much longer than your sporting one. It’s more important to be a person than a sportsperson.” – Rafael Nadal, Spanish tennis player
• “I’ve grown so much from making errors and from making mistakes, whether losing matches or other things.” – Maria Sharapova, Russian tennis player
• “There’s a lot of things in life that we don’t know why they’re coming exactly at this moment.” – Marat Safin, Russian tennis player
• “Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life.” – Billie Jean King, American tennis player
• “I don’t have any regrets about anything I’ve done in my life. I learn from my mistakes and without mistakes I wouldn’t be where I am today.” – Mats Wilander, Swedish tennis player
• “Sometimes it’s hard because you get upset on court, but I think in life one learns through experiences in order to evolve as a person.” – Ana Ivanovic, Serbian tennis player
• “When you’re able to turn those somewhat negative moments in your life, turn them into something meaningful, ultimately it becomes much more powerful.” – Maria Sharapova, Russian tennis player
• “There’s always trials and tribulations that you go through, but it’s for a reason. And sooner or later, everything will be great. You can’t go through life without some ups and downs.” – Alexandra Stevenson, American tennis player
• “My tennis career have been a priority during all my life but never have been a priority over my happiness of my life.” – Rafael Nadal, Spanish tennis player

 

 

Cool Tennis Quotes

• “It is more important to be happy and enjoying the life you are living – win or lose.” – Kiki Bertens, Dutch tennis player
• “Tennis is a lifelong sport that can be enjoyed by people of almost any age. It’s also something you never forget once you learn.” – Samantha Stosur, Australian tennis player
• “Tennis: a racquet sport in which two players compete to see who has the shortest temper, the worst memory, the poorest eyesight, and the slowest watch.”
• “All you need are a pair of tennis shoes and motivation to change the course of your life.” – Heidi Bond, American author
• “Find something that you’re really interested in doing in your life. Pursue it, set goals, and commit yourself to excellence. Do the best you can.” – Chris Evert, American tennis player
• “When I lose a match, I know that I lose on the court and not in life.” – Gabriela Sabatini, Argentine tennis player
• “You just have to take life as it goes, and I believe you never get things put on you that you can’t handle.” – Caroline Wozniacki, Danish tennis player
• “Tennis is all about mental toughness, and you have to keep your head in the game.” – Jennifer Capriati
• “Tennis is a sport where the mental aspect is so important. It’s a game of inches, details, and moments.” – Novak Djokovic
• “The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer.” – Fridtjof Nansen
• “If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that’s a big accomplishment.” – Chris Evert
•  “In tennis, it is not the opponent you fear, it is the failure itself, knowing how near you were but just out of reach.” – Andy Murray

 

 

Amazing Tennis Quotes

• “In a perfect dream, things would be set exactly the way you would want them. But I think it’s more interesting that in real life, things aren’t exactly the way you planned.” – Naomi Osaka, Japanese tennis player
• “From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.” – Arthur Ashe, American tennis player
• “Sometimes life has other plans and we have to open new doors that lead to exciting possibilities.” – Monica Puig, Puerto Rican tennis player
• “There are times when you can’t play, whatever the circumstances are. Tennis does go on. You just have to find other things in your life at that moment.” – Venus Williams, American tennis player
• “When you do something best in life, you don’t really want to give that up – and for me it’s tennis.” – Roger Federer, Swiss tennis player
• “Life is like a tennis game. You can’t win without serving.” – Arthur Ashe, American tennis player
• “I always believe if you’re stuck in a hole and maybe things aren’t going well you will come out stronger. Everything in life is this way.” – Roger Federer, Swiss tennis player
• “We have to fight through our pain and find a way to get through it. Life is about fighting through that pain and, when you can, easing the pain of others.” – Andre Agassi, American tennis player
• “I have to really work to get things in life. Things don’t come easy. I refuse to give up. That’s simply how it works with me.” – Stefanos Tsitsipas, Greek tennis player
• “Life is incredibly fair or else we wouldn’t be able to learn from our mistakes.” – Todd Martin, American tennis player
• “Life is about challenges and how we face up to them and the attitude we take into every day life so hopefully we’ll be able to motivate people to do more with their life.” – Martina Navratilova, American tennis player

 

Conclusion about Tennis Quotes

Inspirational tennis quotes ignite the spirit of championship inside you. Motivate you to become a tennis star and play with international matches. These small quotes will lead you from local courts to Olympic ones and celebrate your victory. It will fuel you with confidence remarkably and address your anxiety situation. Convert the pressure of match into productive energy that keeps you focused and determined.

To become like them, you need to burn a lot of calories. Work hard every day by waking up early in the morning with an energy drink and motivational tennis quotes. These quotes will change your lifestyle and routine. They will keep you fit, fine, and inspiring. By reading tennis quotes early in the morning, you can run your day smoothly, keep you motivated, and remove the laziness inside you.

I encourage you to live the dreams you once wished for. Turning dreams into reality only requires two things: motivation and dedication to the goal. After that, your mind will subconsciously provoke you to become the best tennis player.

 

Guide to Use Tennis Quotes

You can read these quotes before playing a match against the most formidable opponent. It will prepare you mentally and physically before the game and increase your success rate. I am sure you will win if you have the confidence and skills. It will keep you calm, relaxed, and focused in the game.

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Frequently Asked Questions about Tennis Quotes

What is the importance of tennis quotes?

Tennis quotes motivate players to see failure as a chance to enhance skills and strategies. The game is not about winning all the time; it is about consistency and serving the right way. Enable people to become champions until they become experts.

 

How to create tennis quotes?

Focus on the core mission and playing style of players. Ignite the player’s spirit using a light tone with a solid reference to successful players. Inspirational messages overcome setbacks and allow them to stay focused on the game.

What is the tennis quote about love?

• ”Love is nothing in tennis. But in life, it’s everything.”

 

What are the tennis quotes from players?

Tennis quotes for players:

• Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
• Always dream big, and don’t let anyone limit your dreams because the possibilities are endless.
• I’m thankful to my family, friends, and fans for all of their support.
• A champion is afraid of losing
• Always dream big, and don’t let anyone limit your dreams because the possibilities are endless.

 

What is a famous tennis quote?

The famous tennis quote is, “Improve to fail better.”  Motivate players to enjoy the rough and challenging journey. Consider losing a match as an opportunity to make yourself better from the past. Keep playing until you learn to serve right.

 

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