Tennis Achievements Quotes

No one cares about the Davis Cup. How many people know I won five Davis Cups and seven majors, but that I rarely played the Australian Open?

Anna Kournikova will always be better paid than Lindsay Davenport. The first left the circuit without having won a single title while the second was world number one.

Receiving the Newcombe Medal for a third year in a row is an amazing honour. The Newcombe Medal is a great occasion for the Australian tennis community to come together and celebrate our sport, recognise people's achievements and contributions to Australian tennis.

I'm not the savior of men's tennis in America. I'm just a kid trying to win a few matches.

I'm not going to be a ten or twelve grand-slam winner. It's not going to happen.

My goal one day is to be in the same sentence as Rod Laver and Ken Rosewall.

Hopefully I can just have another terrible year with only the one Grand Slam and that will be just fine.

The Olympics is not for tennis and tennis does not need the Olympics. It is not my goal in life to win a gold medal.

My goal one day is to be in the same sentence as Rod Laver and Ken Rosewall. If I can match them for 10 years, I'd be in their company. They were class acts. That's what I'd like to be.

I got to one Grand Slam final, and that's what you shoot for as a player.

I proved that I can win the Grand Slams. I proved that I can last four and a half hours and come out on top against one of the strongest guys physically that tennis had probably seen especially on this surface. So they would probably be the things that I would say I have learned tonight: To not doubt myself physically and mentally from now on.

I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments. That's no contribution to society. [Tennis] was purely selfish; that was for me.

Of all my achievements in tennis, I'm probably as proud of my record on clay courts as any of my Wimbledon, U.S. Open or French singles titles.

It's unbelievable, it never gets too old. The biggest goal in my career is winning Grand Slams. I don't have a great record in finals, but I'm getting closer to .500, which is nice.

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?

I'm not necessarily proud of the World Cups and the grand slams won or lost, the amount of points I scored, this record or that.

If I had to choose between a third Wimbledon title and the number one ranking, I would choose Wimbledon. The ranking just shows how you're doing in the year, so I think the Slams are first, and it shows in the number anyway.

As a teenager, Monica Seles won some historic matches on the tennis court, dominating opponents and filling a room with trophies.

But, then, Sampras won Wimbledon six times and that automatically puts him among the greatest.

Nadal is going to break all the records.

Billie and I did wonders for women's tennis. They owe me a piece of their checks.

I was lucky enough to win the Davis Cup in my first year in 1999. I won my first slam at the U.S. Open in 2001 and became world No. 1 later that year. By the age of 20, I'd done it all.

It doesn't really matter who I turn pro with. What matters is where I take my tennis.

I just could never have imagined that I would be mentioned with Chris Evert or with Martina Navratilova, because I was just a kid with a dream and a racquet. Living in Compton, you know, this never happened before.

Tennis has given me this wonderful life and I'm very grateful for it.