Quotes About Achievement

If I played tennis, I had to be in a dance class. I always had multiple activities, so I never had to count on any one of them to feel successful.

My mother is a fighter. After she battled polio and learned to walk again, the doctors told her she would be a cripple her entire life. Instead of accepting defeat, she refused this fate and went on to become the West African Women's Singles tennis champion in college.

Tennis helped give me an identity and made me feel like somebody.

My dad taught me how to play tennis, and I owe that to him. But the better you get, the higher you climb, and the more lonely you get. I've had to sacrifice a lot of personal relationships, but that's the choice I made.

I want my tennis to speak for everything.

That's what I love about tennis: As an individual sport, you can't hide behind teammates.

Tennis doesn't owe me anything. Tennis is one of the fairest sports. It's given me so many extraordinary feelings.

Tennis Canada nominated me a few years ago, and I did some research into it and realized it's one of the biggest honours you can have as a Canadian. I've seen the list of the people, and it's pretty special.

Tennis has given me so many opportunities, and I feel very lucky to have achieved whatever I have, especially coming from a country that does not have a great history in the game.

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

I never thought tennis was going to give me so much satisfaction.

Personally, I enjoyed school as much as the next kid. I was into art and every sport going from football to table tennis, so I kept busy. I never bunked a day off and left with 9 GCSEs, if I remember correctly.

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.

It's an amazing feeling: tennis is growing very quickly in Canada, and to be a big part of it is an honour.

Me, I'm a rising star for American tennis. I'm really proud to represent my country and hopefully I can keep going higher.

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

My best tennis will be when I'm 24, 25.

I have always been guided by striving to show the best that I could. That is what kept me going in tennis and it is the same now.

In tennis it's easy to get greedy - and one Grand Slam doesn't feel enough any more.

Once you succeed in tennis, financially you become quite well off.

I've got more out of tennis than I could ever give back.

There's a lot of things I want to do. I want to learn Italian. I want to learn to play tennis better. I want to motivate the world, basically.

I want to play my best tennis at the Grand Slams.