Quotes About Competition

If you're working with someone who you get on with and you're supposed to hate them on the screen, then you get this playful challenge thing where you're trying to one-up each other and that's really interesting. Sometimes it can become like tennis. The harder you hit the ball back, then the harder the hit it back to you.

I used to play a lot of racket sports, tennis and squash.

To play against Serena in a final is something special. You know you must play your best tennis.

I was very lucky in as much as I played a lot of tennis.

I look at our sport as the same as tennis. Male and female tennis is very, very different. The men's is more quick and powerful, and the women's is more about finesse and has more rallies - and that's the same with men's and women's football.

I think more of my tennis is more to do with the mental side of things rather than technique or, you know, tactics or anything like that.

I grew up in an age where women's tennis did not have similar prizes to men, and they played in complete obscurity, really, compared to the men's game.

When I see these kids 6 years old with a private coach, and at 7, they have a fitness coach, I'm like, 'Aw, come on.' At 12, it's for sure they will lose all the interest in tennis because they do not interact with other kids.

There are lots of women tennis players, for instance, but because not many of them seem to have much personality, they're interchangeable. You don't have a feeling about them.

I think that tennis is a lady's sport, so we should look out there like ladies.

Acting with Denzel is like playing tennis with someone that's better than you. You either play better tennis or get blown off the court.

The only way to quieten me is to invite me to a tennis match.

Now I do bowling, golf, and tennis. I want to be a good bowler.

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.

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

Seems like most of the kids today are into other sports other than tennis.

It wasn't my tennis that made me lose, it was a lot of different things going on, high drama, high emotion.

If I stay healthy and I'm playing good tennis I have as good a chance as anybody.

I have a strong tennis arm.

I began playing in the Pacific Coast Indoor Tennis Championships.

These girls play tennis first and foremost, the fact that many of them are very glamorous is a major bonus for any promoter.

It was so inspiring for me to watch tennis growing up. I thought I was really good playing, until my brother told me I wasn't!

I don't play tennis at all.

Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.