Motivational Tennis Quotes

Champions keep playing until they get it right.
- Billie Jean King

I don't focus on what I'm up against. I focus on my goals and I try to ignore the rest.
- Venus Williams

It's only a crazy dream until you do it.
- Serena Williams

Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquility.
- Billie Jean King

Losing is not my enemy, fear of losing is my enemy.
- Rafael Nadal

Winning is a way of expressing yourself.
- Boris Becker

Almost everybody is here doing the same thing. Who am I to come up with an excuse when there is 64 other players here doing the same thing? 63 others, sorry.
- Andy Roddick

The great part about tennis is you can not run out the clock.... As long as we were still playing, I had a chance.
- Andre Agassi

As a Tennis player, you have to get used to losing every week. Unless you win the tournament, you always go home a loser. But you have to take the positive out of a defeat and go back to work. Improve to fail better. - Stan Wawrinka

What is the single most important quality in a tennis champion? I would have to say desire, staying in there and winning matches when you are not playing that well.
- John McEnroe

The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.
- Martina Navratilova

If you can keep playing tennis when somebody is shooting a gun down the street, that’s concentration.
- Serena Williams

Sometimes you have to accept that a guy played better on the day than you.
- Roger Federer

I hate to lose more than I love to win.
- Jimmy Connors

Tennis has given me soul.
- Martina Navratilova

It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.
- Roger Federer

Tennis belongs to the individualistic past - a hero, or at most a pair of friends or lovers, against the world.
- Jacques Barzun

When I play, I feel like in a theatre, why should I look ugly then, because I'm a tennis player?
- Anna Kournikova

The next point - that's all you must think about.
- Rod Laver

Tennis is a mental game. Everyone is fit, everyone hits great forehands and backhands.
- Novak Djokovic

Some people say I have attitude — maybe I do — but I think you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does – that makes you a winner right there.
- Venus Williams

Tennis is my life, obviously; I need to focus, I need to win. But it's not the only thing. I'm not going to play forever.
- Novak Djokovic

I told myself to play free. You play the ball. You don’t play the opponent. Be free in your head. Be free in your shots. Go for it. The brave will be rewarded here.
- Roger Federer

Tennis was never work for me, tennis was fun. And the tougher the battle and the longer the match, the more fun I had.
- Jimmy Connors

Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work. I had to put in the time to get back. And it was a grind. It meant training and sweating every day. But I was completely committed to working out to prove to myself that I still could do it.
- Andre Agassi

In tennis the addict moves about a hard rectangle and seeks to ambush a fuzzy ball with a modified snow-shoe.
- Elliot Chaze

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 Ivanišević