Quotes About Perseverance

Like many entrepreneurs, I started out in sales. I began at 14, when I got a job selling shoes and tennis rackets at a pro shop, and I've been selling one thing or another ever since.

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.

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

I go from being not known to being so known in the tennis world, in Canada in general. It's going to be a little bit of a change to me. I'm going to have to adapt. But that doesn't change things. I still have to work really hard every day.

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

I couldn't be accepted into tennis school because I was too young. I had to wait a year until I was four before they'd accept me.

Those big matches, when you go through so much, are the best thing. Those matches are why you play tennis.

When I was a kid, from 10 years old, I worked every day for my dad, huh? Never played basketball. I never played tennis - never did. We worked so that we could eat.

I stumbled into tennis.

I think people have this love-hate relationship with tennis. I also feel like that.

We didn't have football boots, and we used a broken tennis ball instead of a football. I didn't use a proper ball until I was 11.

I'm really happy to be back on the court to play tennis, to really do what I love.

I know it's just sport; it's just tennis.

It's tennis. I'm still human. I'm not a robot.

Tennis is very tough.

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.

Tennis is one of those sports: whatever you put in, you get out.

Tennis is a great platform for me to do well, and for sure, I want to be No 1, to win Slams, but there are more things that I want to do.

The biggest problem I see with early-stage entrepreneurs is they get the idea in their head, and they leave it in their head. And they begin embellishing it in their head, making it more ornate. They add on the second story to their dream house - then add the tennis court and the turrets and the gargoyles.

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

Every good tennis player has to have a short memory. Good or bad.

Nick Kyrgios, if you don't want to be a professional tennis player, do something else.

When I told people that I wanted to grow up to be a tennis player, they laughed at me. My dad has always been supportive, but he was laughing, too.

This is what I've always wanted to do. I've always wanted to be a professional tennis player.