Tennis quotes.

[muffins]

I opened a thread like this in the soccer forum and it turned out some really good quotes. I thought perhaps we could find good quotes from tennis players or anything to do with tennis. They don't have to be funny although the funny ones are good. I just found this one.

"I was just making sure that his son's not doing anything before my son did."
Andre Agassi on a call he made to Pete Sampras.

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"It's really hard to try and kick someone's ass who you like so much!"
Andy Roddick after beating his friend Mardy Fish in a tight final at the Cincinnati Masters Series Final.

[Be_true_to_yourself]

Q. What is it about his game that you have trouble with?
ROGER FEDERER: I will beat him if I know.
(Roger on Nalbandian, never have won against Nalbandian)

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"I'm glad you're doing this story on us and not on the WNBA. We're so much prettier than all the other women in sports."
Martina Hingis

[Be_true_to_yourself]

Well, I like mostly all of them. I like the French, Wimbledon and US Open, but I think I would want to win the US Open because my brother won there.
Dinara Safin(Watch out for her. Apparently, she has the same temper than her bro on court.)

TW: What happens if you break up?
MV: I guess he has to find another secretary or something or a lady (laughs). (What the guys will do without women?Roger's girfriend on helping Roger managing his career.Their management team is called Hippo In-house Management)

Jonh Mcenroe once said that you need to be arrogant to be a tennis player.

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"My main goal this year is to get an 'A' in zoology."
Serena Williams, reflecting on her goals for 1998.

[Be_true_to_yourself]

''No, I can only win at cards,'' she said. ``I lose at squash, table tennis, badminton. I want to win one. But never.

``He hates to lose. Especially to his girlfriend.

Kim on Lleyton

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LOL.

"My hobbies include underwater fire extinguishing."
Andy Roddick

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Bill Threllfall: It surprises me Roddick has so many fans. Roddick doesn't seem to me like someone who is likeable, on court, not that he's nasty.
Peter Fleming: Oh, he has charisma, Bill. He just has a thing about him that says 'I'm going places, wanna come with me?' And people do.
BT: Oh yes, definitely.

(British commentator Bill Threlfall slightly contradicting himself there.)

[Be_true_to_yourself]

"I read a quote from him that the only time he hasn't won when he wore the red shirt in a final was against me, so I was hoping it would be that way again but unfortunately, the red shirt worked today."
Blake on Paradorn

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LOL.

Interviewer: So, are you enjoying New York?
Roger Federer: It's OK for two weeks.

(Federer not sounding too enthusiastic about NYC there.)

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Andre Agassi: Let's see what you've got, big boy.
Andy Roddick: Hair.

[Hantuchova Fan]

Originally posted by muffins
"It's really hard to try and kick someone's ass who you like so much!"
Andy Roddick after beating his friend Mardy Fish in a tight final at the Cincinnati Masters Series Final.

my friends and i are like that. muffin, i like this quotation. i'm going to give andy roddick points for this.........and Mardy also gets points in the favorite player thread

[Hantuchova Fan]

Originally posted by muffins
"I'm glad you're doing this story on us and not on the WNBA. We're so much prettier than all the other women in sports."
Martina Hingis

Martina Hingis has no class sometimes. She really needs to stop hanging out with Steffi Graf. I don't like the influence that she has on her.

[Hantuchova Fan]

Originally posted by muffins
LOL.

"My hobbies include underwater fire extinguishing."
Andy Roddick


ewwww, we don't wanna hear what he does in the shower.

[Hantuchova Fan]

Originally posted by muffins
Andre Agassi: Let's see what you've got, big boy.
Andy Roddick: Hair.

omg, Agassi wants to **** him. CHEATER CHEATER! How dare he dump Steffi for another man.

[muffins]

Well the controversy has started between Ljubicic and Roddick. Ivan said he didn't like the way he acts on court, that if it had been anywhere else he would have beaten Andy, that he uses the crowd too much and intimidates the line judges and umpires. He also said that no-one likes him in the locker room(which he later corrected by saying not everyone)and that they'd said that they hope he(Ivan) whooped Andy's butt. Roddick in reply said:

"I think that's pretty much sour grapes. I don't know how ‑‑ I don't know if I yelled "yes" before the linesman even called that ball or anything. I mean, I think the linesmen do their job. You know, I don't know if anybody saw the replay, but I'm pretty confident that that ball wasn't out. Maybe he was hoping it was out. That really doesn't deserve a response. I don't think that's very respectful. I definitely don't have anything bad to say about him. So it's disappointing...
I try to treat everybody with a lot of respect. You know, I'm not mean to people. You know, I'm very courteous to people. You know, that's their prerogative. You know, I'm not worried. I'd be worried if I was doing things that I thought were causing that. But, you know, I try to treat everybody with respect."

A long quote I know but I liked it. Here's a more funny one

INTERVIEWER: Relieved it didn't go to a fifth, yeah?

ANDY RODDICK: (Shaking his head yes.)
No, actually I wanted to play five. I definitely wanted to try to lose that fourth set and test the waters in the fifth (smiling).

[mishatqueen]

Originally posted by muffins
"I'm glad you're doing this story on us and not on the WNBA. We're so much prettier than all the other women in sports."
Martina Hingis

she really said that? :eek:

[muffins]

Apparently so LOL.

Q. If you start thinking about all those things, you got to worry about the next point, isn't that what...

ANDY RODDICK: I don't know, man. I'm not smart enough to think about a bunch of things. I'm very simple. You guys are giving me a lot more credit than I probably deserve.

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"I don't believe it."
Andy Roddick after winning his first Grand Slam title at the U.S. Open.

I can believe it, Andy.

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Roddick used to be asked every other day "How does it feel to be the future of American tennis?" They've asked him this since the beginning of his professional career to this year! It got very old. If he was asked it once he was asked it 100 times. Roddick came into his press conference after he won the U.S. Open final and said:

"No more, "What's it feel like to be the future of American tennis" crap! No more."

LOL, it made me laugh.

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"I just got an 'Oh my' from Dick Enberg, how about that?"
Roddick when talking to Dick Enberg.

[Be_true_to_yourself]

As a youth, Federer was far more like the fiery German than the cool Swede. “I was hotheaded, always acting bad on the court, throwing my racquets like ten meters in front of me, or into the curtain,” Federer says sheepishly. “My parents hated it. When I acted badly and lost, they would say nothing during the car ride home, which was the worst. But I just couldn’t keep my emotions under control.”

He repeatedly tried to get Federer on his cell phone, but he woulnd’t answer – his player was afraid Lundgren was going to chastise him for being out late

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LOL. I remember reading once that Roddick had such a big tantrum on court when he was young that his mum dragged him off home! LOL!

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"Umpiring, the only job in the world where you can screw up on a daily basis and still have one!"
Andy Roddick after a tight call which gave El Aynaoui the 3rd set in their epic 5 hour match at the Australian Open 2003.

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"That Lopez shouldn't be a tennis player, he should be a model. He was so beautiful he could have been a woman! I swear he had mascara on!"
My father talking about Lopez who beat Mark Philippousis.

[mishatqueen]

^lmao

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"Valentine's Day was created by women to get men in trouble."

Andy Roddick

Hehe.

[glamour-gal]

:D how cute!!

[glamour-gal]

Originally posted by muffins
"That Lopez shouldn't be a tennis player, he should be a model. He was so beautiful he could have been a woman! I swear he had mascara on!"
My father talking about Lopez who beat Mark Philippousis.



LOL..... your dad really said that??? :)

that reminds me what my dad said a lil while ago:
"lleyton hewitt??? isn't he the chef on tv??" :confused:

that was the funniest my dad ever said!!
maybe he mixed him up with jamie oliver??? dunno.....

[muffins]

LOL, that's funny. I have another from Andy from the San Jose final. He was talking to the umpire about switching the net device off.

Umpire: If the machine beeps, what can I do?
Andy: Switch it off and use your brain!

[glamour-gal]

that's cool!! :)

typical andy!!!

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"She must have the wingspan of a Boeing 747!"
A commentator at Wimbledon 2003 about Lindsay Davenport.