Quotes About Discipline

My mother used to say, 'You gotta exercise.' She would really pound on me to exercise every day. She was very physically fit; she was on the basketball team in high school in St. Louis in the 1920s, when women didn't do that. And she taught me to play tennis, taught me to walk and run, and I ran for 30 years pretty religiously.

I'm really trying to focus myself on playing tennis, and I think that's really important.

Tennis doesn't encourage any kind of intellectual development.

I don't think tennis is a glamour game, not at all.

I've played too many tennis hours.

I'm slightly influenced by sport in that I like the idea of trying, like an athlete, to keep absolutely ready. That's an emotional thing, almost. I don't mean physically, although I play tennis. But you try to keep yourself ready.

I've been athletic since I was a kid. My parents got me playing tennis when I was seven years old and I started to play competitively.

Tennis was always there for me, which was lucky. I would go play baseball, basketball, football, hang with my brother, do whatever, and at the end of the day I'd come back and say, 'Hey, Mom, would you hit 15 minutes worth of balls with me?'

Tennis is a full-time job and not just the two hours that people see when we're on the court.

Earlier in my career, I used to spend a lot of time practising my tennis on court. Now I've learned that it's better to do just a couple of hours on court and two gym sessions a day. That's what's made me fitter and stronger.

I don't have time for easy. Tennis is just hard.

You can ask a lot of the people around me - I'm very demanding. I expect them to be as intense about my tennis on a daily basis as I am.

I spent about five years stuck in a room between the ages of 16 and 20 while I wrote the first book, which came out when I was 21. I should have been out playing tennis.

I did everything - swimming, dancing, and badminton as well as tennis. It was always tennis that I really loved, though.

My priority is always playing tennis and practising and doing my schedule with my tennis.

That's my every day: putting things aside and going out there and have two hours of concentration of tennis.

When I came to Spain, I joined a tennis academy, and that was where I learnt the game.

Tennis is very tough.

It is for sure a big part of the coach's job to make sure the tennis does not get neglected.

Even as a kid, I'd kick a tennis ball against a wall with both feet for hours. That was one way to become two-footed.

One of the biggest things I've worked on is how to play my best tennis every single time I walk on to the court.

Every time I go out onto a tennis court, I know what to expect.

I did a really good job of sticking to the tennis court.

The second I was on the tennis court, I had the structure I wanted. I was in complete control of what I was doing.