Quotes from Katrina Adams

It can be difficult playing friends. But you also have to know that it's a match, and this is what you do. And you do your best.

I'm a visual learner, so with hand-eye coordination, I was a natural.

I'm a competitor in everything that I do. I love to compete.

Few players hit the swinging forehand volley as often, or as well, as Maria Sharapova.

Changing the dialogue and behaviors around race and equality in sports starts with removing barriers and creating opportunities.

We are a traditional sport in an innovative society, and so trying to make change is always a task.

I grew up in youth programs in Chicago, so they are definitely close to my heart. It is all about helping kids and giving back to a sport that has given me so much.

My goal is to play better than my seed. If I'm seeded sixth, I want to try to go to the semifinals. If I'm seeded third, I'm going to shoot for the finals.

I stumbled into tennis.

Tennis is a very interesting world. It's a sport of opportunities, but it's a sport of challenges as well. And for anybody to continue to progress, they have to understand what those challenges are.

My role at the USTA allows me to fulfill my ambition to open up opportunities for people to play tennis that may not otherwise have a chance or an outlet to play.

We want to make tennis look like America when it comes to cultural backgrounds.

For players from every age and every ability, the USTA National Campus will raise the bar on how we deliver tennis with the goal of making our great sport more accessible to more people than ever before.

When we introduced 10-and-under tennis - when we shortened the courts and had smaller rackets and low-compression balls for trying to introduce the sport to youth - a lot of people said we weren't going to succeed.

I think tennis is very different than most of the other sports when you have the opportunity to go pro. For me, it was pretty simple. Tennis was always an individual sport, and your direct results determined where you could go and what you could do.

I went to Northwestern. I bleed purple and white.

Serena Williams is the ultimate champion. She knows what it takes to get to the top.

Serena Williams is the greatest tennis player of all time, the greatest female athlete of all time, the greatest athlete of all time.

We make sure that we continue to educate our youth on who Althea Gibson and Arthur Ashe were.

When I was a kid, people reached out and gave me a chance.

What we instill in our kids is that if you work hard, good things will happen.

I was throwing a spiral football at 6.

As athletes, the biggest asset that we bring to the workplace is our work ethic, our confidence, our never-say-die attitude. We're about winning.

Northwestern was never known as a sports school. I was proud to add a national title to the school.