Quotes About Diversity

It's like playing tennis, you play a different rally with different people. Every actor is different and the chemistry between actors is different.

I was a child who was interested in sports, and represented my school in football, cricket, badminton and table tennis.

I, as a cricketer, would like to see 100 counties playing top-flight cricket, just like tennis and football. If I am alive to see that, I will be very happy.

Back in East St. Louis, tennis wasn't the real thing. If you weren't playing baseball, basketball, football, you were kind of on the outside.

Gender is irrelevant. Certainly the tennis ball doesn't know what the gender was of the tennis coach.

One Oxford poet confessed to me that I had been scary because I talked American and wore tennis shoes.

I look at our sport as the same as tennis. Male and female tennis is very, very different. The men's is more quick and powerful, and the women's is more about finesse and has more rallies - and that's the same with men's and women's football.

I've been playing tennis, and just whatever sport is in front of me I will do.

In the tennis world, there weren't a whole lot of Asians playing. You see it a little bit more now. The same can really be said for basketball.

There are not many Irish people playing tennis!

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

There are still going to be great players that are baseliners. That's the way tennis - courts, balls, everything - has shifted. But everyone has to find their own way to win. Not everyone can run around the baseline for five hours. I can't.

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

I have found - and tennis may be the greatest manifestation of it - Americans have become more international in taste. Remember the old axiom that you have to have American players for Americans to be interested? And in tennis, it's just not true anymore.

We have a lot of great lesbian role models in tennis. I mean, Martina Navratilova in her heyday was probably the greatest female athlete on the planet. Martina just kept breaking every rule. That's a great role model.

We want to make tennis look like America when it comes to cultural backgrounds.

For players from every age and every ability, the USTA National Campus will raise the bar on how we deliver tennis with the goal of making our great sport more accessible to more people than ever before.

When I started playing tennis in Class V, I used to be the only girl on the court along with 20-odd boys. So, I am used to being in the company of boys. In fact, I have very few girlfriends, and even my besties are boys; I find it much easier to get along with them.

I like lots of different sport, and I was always the type of lad that plays a lot of sport as well. I've played basketball; I'm not bad at tennis.

Women's tennis is very open. You really never know who going to be there.

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

The old boys' club of closed tennis court relationships is on the way out.

I can be a tennis player, a golf player, and even a soccer player.

Lars Ulrich is not a jazz drummer, but he grew up listening to jazz. Why? Because his father, Torben - an incredible tennis player - loved jazz. Jazz musicians used to stay at their house.