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Tennis Motivational Quotes by Tennis Champions,
Past and Present
You live during the
match, and you have strong emotions, but you don't want to get too
overexcited. My body's totally flat now. I cannot move anymore. I'm
totally exhausted, just because of the tension out there.
Roger Federer Article
- The Secret That Turned Federer's Career Around
Losing is not my
enemy..fear of losing is my enemy.
Rafael Nadal Article
- The Rise of Rafa - And What You Can Learn From Him
"You've just got
to get over that mental hurdle and those battles in your own head during
matches when things aren't going so well. It takes time. It's probably
all things I already knew, but for someone to talk about it maybe in
a different way makes you realise things."
Sam Stosur
I'm not afraid of
anyone, but sometimes I'm afraid of myself. The mental part is very
important.
Justine Henin Article
- Develop Your Mental Strength In Practice
This time last year
I would have said Federer would beat Sampras’s record. Now I’m
not so sure. His aura has gone. He’s not as dominant as he was,
and since I beat him in Australia he’s looked frustrated. Players
are beginning to challenge him now, especially myself and Rafa. He’s
got 12 Grand Slams to his name and maybe he will beat Sampras, but
now I’m here it will be tough for him.
Novak Djokovic Article
- How To Win Matches You Should Not Win!
Almost everybody's
here doing the same thing. Who am I to come up with an excuse when
there's 64 other players here doing the same thing? 63 others, sorry.
Andy Roddick Article
- Winning When You Are Not Playing Well!
I'm a perfectionist.
I'm pretty much insatiable. I feel there's so many things I can improve
on.
Serena Williams Article
- The Zone
You have to find
it. No one else can find it for you.
Bjorn Borg
That's when you've
got to grit your teeth and hang in there and try and find a way to
win when you're not playing your best tennis - that's what I can be
proud of
Lleyton Hewitt Article
- Winning When You Are NOT Playing Well!
Both Arthur Ashe
and Billie Jean King used these phrases ("playing out of one's
mind," or "over one's head") to describe their performances
while winning the finals at Wimbledon in 1975. . . . The player loses
himself in the action, continually breaking the false limits placed
on is potential. Awareness becomes acutely heightened, while analysis,
anxiety and self-conscious thought are completely forgotten. Enjoyment
is at a peak - pure and unspoiled.
W. Timothy Gallwey, "The
Inner Game of Tennis"
As you know, I was
one of the original grunters. But Jimmy Connors used to grunt way before
I was born. I never knew I was grunting, it was just part of my strokes.
Monica Seles
I'm not lucky. If
I play another player, even if I don't play really good, I think I
can win.
Richard Gasquet
Access 'the Zone', Master Nerves & Intimidation, and Realize your Full
Potential
It is very important not to think about losing.
Venus Williams
Everything is possible in this life...
Marat Safin
It's like love. When you look too
hard, you don't find it. When you let it happen naturally, it comes.
Marat Safin Article
- The Zone
You don't think about anything because
you just try to playevery game, every point. If you get some chance, you
try to take this chance.
Nikolay Davydenko
You've got to take the initiative
and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference.
Chris Evert
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
"Control
the things you can control ."
Sam Stosur
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
Are You Getting The Results Your Potential Deserves?
Ever since that day when I was 11 years old, and I wasn't allowed in a photo
because I wasn't wearing a tennis skirt, I knew that I wanted to change
the sport.
Billie Jean King
The roughest thing I ever said to an umpire was, 'Are
you sure?'
Rod Laver
He's a haircut and a forehand.
Ivan Lendl
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
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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3. You Are Always Talking
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The Zone
1.
Visualization Will Increase Your Inner Belief
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