Quotes About Sports

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.

There are not many Irish people playing tennis!

I don't play tennis at all.

It's really football, tennis, and golf that I watch other than hockey.

I have a TV Soap Boomerang award, and I always start my year with the Australian Open tennis! Tennis, soccer, you name it.

I'm convinced being a tennis analyst is the easiest job in the world.

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?'

Summer I was 13, my grandfather and my father taught me how to play golf. I took lessons that summer, and I played every day that summer. I probably would've kept playing, except I realized that girls don't watch golf; they watch tennis. So I let my golf game go dormant and started playing tennis.

While I'm more of a soccer and tennis fan myself, I still enjoying catching some football games when I get the chance.

I dislike the gym, but I'll chase a tennis ball all day.

I've got a terrible knee from too much tennis.

I do rock climbing and tennis.

My parents wanted me and my siblings to practice some sports outside school. And since we lived next to a tennis club, we decided to play tennis. I didn't have an idol, so to speak, but I always enjoyed watching Pete Sampras and Alex Corretja.

During high school, I would purposely lose tennis and squash matches to escape the agony of anxiety that competitive situations would provoke in me.

I started playing street hockey, but there were tennis courts near my house, and it was my father who suggested I try. I don't really know why.

I play sports - like, I play a little bit of tennis, swimming, like a normal kid. I watch movies.

You're asking too much of the women. They shouldn't be playing as many events as men. If tennis is best served by women playing events with men, so be it.

I think if people were to look at badminton and tennis, they'd see they're actually very similar; the profile would increase, and we might be in a better position as a sport.

You have to be realistic. I'd love to be more famous, have lots of people supporting me, people knowing my name, but I need a tennis racket or a golf club or to play football. Being a female, I don't stand a chance.

It is hard to compete with other sports. Badminton is a sport which, when compared with football and tennis, still needs promotion.

I learnt tennis, swimming, basketball and several others, but the sport I loved the most was golf.

The days of a tennis champion as a gender rights leader are over.