Quotes About Balance

I always feel I sing better if I have been playing a lot of tennis or football.

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.

Because I've had time off, I've learned to appreciate tennis more - to put something back into it.

I started when I was 8 years old, which is obviously nowadays pretty late, but I guess in my generation it was all right. I had plenty of other interests and I didn't do only tennis.

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

There is so many things to do in life rather than playing tennis, so I'm sure I will find something. I just need a bit of time to kind of settle down.

Everything's a real passion to me - my children, my family, my work, travel. I don't play tennis, I don't play music, but I have a great time.

I think it is very important to have a life off the court, and to me, it wasn't that hard to balance tennis and a relationship.

If you're playing someone you care about, it's tough, and I don't want to be in that situation. We are playing big matches for big points and prize money, and I take it very seriously. I relax when I'm outside tennis.

At the end of the day, it's just a tennis match. It's not the end of the world.

I've been very focused on my career outside of tennis.

It is hard because I have played since I was three years old, and everything is tennis, tennis. I am super-passionate about it. And I love it. But I always like to cook, I listen to music. I just try to be like a regular girl.

Tennis players shouldn't get married. It hurts your game.

Stress is part of your career. You have to accept it and deal with it because there is a lot of emotion in tennis.

I've tried to dial my emotions down: not get too high, not get too low, try to find that even-keel tennis.

I love to go out and have fun, but I'm not all about partying, so that's a perfect place for me to get away from tennis with my friends. I think Canberra is the best place in the world.

I love the sport of tennis, but I sort of got a little bit away from what I really wanted to do. It became robotic for me, and that's not what I wanted. It's such an amazing sport, and I just really wanted to enjoy it, and I lost that enjoyment and that passion.

There's things in the life that should be more important than just tennis.

I've always been a person who likes to take care of myself, but there is so much to do behind the scenes, and I love to just focus on the tennis.

Tennis is great, but it doesn't necessarily define me.

I'm the kind of guy that I cannot just lock myself in the room and just think tennis for 24 hours.

I love tennis. But even if I become the greatest of all time, I still don't only want to be defined by tennis. I'm my own person. And I want to be remembered as I really am.

All we see is gym, tennis court, and bed.

I think everything I do in my life I try to have fun, and I try to be creative on the tennis court, outside the tennis court.