I can't say that I was my happiest on court, but I felt completely free. Free from family obligations, free from my own torment. In a real sense I was a different person. It was a place where I could not tolerate the idea of being beaten. I psyched myself up into a state where I felt something close to hatred towards my opponent, a state where I detested the idea of someone making his name at the expense of Jimmy Connors. I was in my element on court, measuring myself against someone else. I was not competitive for show. It came from deep within.
Jimmy Connors

I never look back, I look forward.
Steffi Graf

I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I love to play.
Boris Becker

A smile is a curve that can straighten out a lot of problems.
Ana Ivanovic

He'll go down as one of the guys who changed our sport in a lot of ways, not only the way he played the game, but also the way that he conducted himself on and off the court.
Lleyton Hewitt

I don't care now if I ever win a match in my life again. Whatever I do in my life, wherever I go, I'm going to be always Wimbledon champion.
Goran Ivanisevic

There were many occasions in my career where I could have given up, where I asked myself whether I would ever make it.
Amelie Mauresmo

The difference of great players is at a certain point in a match they raise their level of play and maintain it. Lesser players play great for a set, but then less.
Pete Sampras

I'm the sort of person who keeps a lot to myself.
Patrick Rafter

When you start from nothing, when you come from nothing, it makes you hungry. I am proud of where I came from and I know what I want. I want to win.
Maria Sharapova

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

"Winning for your country gives you a high that lasts two or three days. You can't go to K-Mart and pick that up.
Jim Courier

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I think when you start to do well and get your confidence back, everything becomes more fun. When you're playing with not your full capacity of confidence, I think things get a little tough. I knew I could be doing better than what I was doing. Even though I was ranked 5 or 4 or whatever it was, I wanted to get back to the level I thought I could play at.
Lindsay Davenport

I'll let the racket do the talking.
John McEnroe

The ball is round, the game is long.
Bjorn Borg

You don't have to hate your opponents to beat them.
Kim Clijsters

I felt better being in the background. That's the way I like it.
Stefan Edberg

I just try to concentrate on concentrating.
Martina Navratilova

"I have always considered tennis as a combat in an arena between two gladiators who have their racquets and their courage as their weapons."
Yannick Noah

I made it look so easy on court all those years. No one realized how hard I had to work. No one realized how much I had to put into it. They underestimated my intensity.
Pete Sampras

So there was a fire inside me. And that fire inside you, it can be turned into a negative form or a positive form. And I gradually realised that I had this fire and that it had to be used in a positive way.
John Newcombe

What rivalry? I win all the matches.
Martina Hingis

I'm never going to win a match against him playing really conservative.
James Blake

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

Tennis has given me soul.
Martina Navratilova

Sometimes I wish I could have been a bit more relaxed, but then I wouldn't have been the same player.
Steffi Graf

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