Tennis Legend Quotes

I admire Roger Federer, not only for his tennis but also for his personality.

Tim Henman has the all-time Betty Crocker draw. We're talking Easy Bake Oven.

A lot is yet to be enjoyed. I'd like to stomp grapes for wine. Go to Antarctica. Have dinner with Venus Williams who is the greatest tennis player ever.

I would have loved to have met Roger Federer.

I remember Agassi playing Federer in Basel, Switzerland in 1998, and Andre was already saying at that time that Federer would be tough. Usually at the time players are 17, you can see if they will be great.

Roger Federer is stylish.

If I had to choose one man to play for my life, it would be Nadal.

Like a Volvo, Bjorn Borg is rugged, has good after-sales service, and is very dull.

Growing up, I wanted to be Chris Evert.

Many say that (Pete) Sampras is the greatest player. But I say with all due respect to the rest, that he (Roger Federer) is the most complete player in the world so far.

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

You never know how long Federer is going to play, but in my opinion he has at least one or two more grand slams to win. It depends how long he stays motivated. For me, he is the greatest player to ever play the game.

You can find flaws in Agassi and Sampras, but Federer has none.

John McEnroe...was arguably the best serve-and-volley man of all time, but then McEnroe was an exception to pretty much every predictive norm there was. At his peak (say 1980 to 1984), he was the greatest tennis player who ever lived-the most talented, the most beautiful, the most tormented: a genius. For me, watching McEnroe don a blue polyester blazer and do stiff lame truistic color commentary for TV is like watching Faulkner do a Gap ad.

My first hero was Serena Williams. No contest.

You'd have to think that if he'd been around today, Rod Laver would have been Rod Laver.

I admire Serena Williams, because, I mean, who doesn't admire Serena Williams?

Federer said something interesting once. He said that he was watching Rod Laver, and me, and he said he was trying to copy us and to be like us. And that’s a great compliment for us.

Actually, I really wanted to play against Venus because I have so much respect for both Serena and Venus.

Beating Roger Federer is a match I will remember for years to come. All my respect to him. Federer is arguably the greatest player to have ever played our sport, so beating him at Wimbledon was really special.

I obviously wasn't a normal tennis story.

My hero is Roger Federer.

Billie Jean King is one of the all-time tennis greats; she's one of the superstars. She's ready for the big one, but she doesn't stand a chance against me. Women's tennis is so far beneath men's tennis; that's what makes the contest with a 55-year-old man the greatest contest of all time.

Ivan Lendl was the best player I ever played. He was the first guy to bring the game to more of a power level and you could know that if he played really well you could get blown off court and that wouldn't happen against John McEnroe, Jimmy Connors or even Bjorn Borg or Guillermo Vilas.

He didn't have the best shots but the intensity of the match and the positive energy you got from playing Yannick Noah was something I didn't get from anyone else.