This hub follows my collection of 'Funny Tennis Quotes', and I realised that tennis quotes can also be deeply inspirational; and not only for those that play tennis. To do tennis a bit of justice, and to avoid painting any negative pictures, I decided to follow it up with this page. Therefore, I present to you '25 Inspirational Tennis Quotes'.

1. "Tennis is an addiction that once it has truly hooked a man will not let go." - Russell Lynes

2. “Foot speed is the most important element in men’s tennis today. With the players bigger and stronger and equipment more powerful, speed is essential.” - Pat McEnroe

3. "I let my racket do the talking. That's what I am all about, really. I just go out and win tennis matches".- Pete Sampras

4.“There is a very fine line between undertraining and overtraining, and the spot right between those two extremes is peak perform” - Chris Evert

5. “There is nothing I wouldn’t do on court in order to win.” - Boris Becker

6. "The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I'll never be as good as a wall." - Mitch Hedberg

7. “Training the body to obey the mind as I have done differs from the more conventional method of getting the mind to obey the body.” - Chris Evert

8. “You can have a certain arrogance, and I think that's fine, but what you should never lose, is the respect for the others” - Steffi Graf

9."Speed in tennis is a strange mixture of intuition, guesswork, footwork and hair-trigger reflexes. Many of the players famed for quickness on court would finish dead last in a field of schoolgirls in a race over any distance more than ten yards" - Eugene Scott

10.“It was an art and act I came to perfect. It was part of my armoury. I felt if my opponent didn’t know what I was thinking then I was invincible.” - Bjorn Borg

11. "Why has slamming a ball with a racquet become so obsessive a pleasure for so many of us? It seems clear to me that a primary attraction of the sport is the opportunity it gives to release aggression physically without being arrested for felonious assault". - Nat Hentoff

12. "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

13. "When you speak to tennis journalists, you notice how little they understand." - Tim Henman

14. “I didn’t start a war. Nobody died. I only lost a tennis match, nothing more." - Boris Becker

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

16. "As soon as I step on the court 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 Ivanisevic

17. "Girls had never been important. I'd had a girlfriend or two and had liked them a lot but it wasn't love, because my first love was tennis." - Boris Becker

18. "I always give Lindsay (Davenport) so much credit for her tennis game, for her attitude, for her person, and because of how she deals with all the things. I don't think people give her enough credit for how well she's doing." - Martina Hingis

19. "When I was four years old and I was at the Alan King Tennis Tournament and I was hitting with all the pros that would come to town. They would get me on the court or take notice and that stayed with me." - Andre Agassi

20. "In the complete overall history of tennis, I figure I'll be worth a sentence or two.... That's why my place in the all-time rankings means so very little to me, because I know I won't be anybody's number one, and it's that same old thing: if you're not number one, then what does it really matter?" - Billie Jean King

21. "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

22. "There are a lot of pretty girls. I am a tennis player first of all, that is why I am here, and if I wasn't producing results no one would notice me." - Anna Kournikova

23. "I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis." - Venus Williams

24. "First of all, let me say, 1:15 in the morning, for 20,000 people to still be here, I wasn't the winner, tennis was. That's awesome. I don't know if I've ever felt so good here before." - Andre Agassi

25. "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