Quotes About Passion

In tennis, a lot of parents are accused of driving their kids into tennis. I would say I'm the opposite: I drove my parents into it. They didn't take it that seriously until I was about 11 or 12 years old, when they realised I had an opportunity to go pro.

After almost 30 years of playing this sport, I've learned something. I've learned that, no matter what happens, or happened... or where you are, or where you've been... at the end of the day: tennis is tennis. It's always, always tennis. And there's nothing better.

It was different when I was young, aged 20, playing the French Open. I didn't have so much experience. I just played tennis because I loved the game.

Tennis, for me, every time I went out on the court, it just gave me such joy to play.

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

I love to play tennis. I play a lot in the summer. I'm not a big golfer; I need something a bit more intense.

It is just a crazy life as a sportsman. My daughter, Sam, wants to go into tennis, and I tell her, 'No, you don't want to go into professional sport.'

When I think about it, the happiest and most successful people I know don't just love what they do, they're obsessed with solving something that matters to them. They remind me of a dog chasing a tennis ball: Their eyes go a little crazy, the leash snaps and they go bounding off, plowing through whatever gets in the way.

I just wanted to play tennis. It wasn't a job. It was an ambition. I knew I could make money at it. I was 18 - old enough to think I could do it, young enough not to consider the consequences.

My mother wanted very much to play tennis; she wanted, most of all, to be a singer and play the piano.

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 found out how I missed tennis through the period I didn't play. It was a difficult time to watch girls playing on the TV, me sitting on the sofa with the hand in a splint. I find out then how I love this sport.

I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis.

Tennis is what I do and is part of who I am.

I chose to stay with tennis and they didn't understand that at the school.

Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.

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

I'm only seeing tennis balls these days. And maybe the occasional fashion sketch.

If I didn't play tennis I don't know where I'd be.

My dad's method in his madness was to try every sport and then observe what I liked. I played football, tennis, golf, cricket but I loved my snooker.

I make movies the same way other kids play tennis or go to piano lessons. I'm trying to get better at what I want to do, just like other kids are trying to get better at what they want to do.

With everything else that would swirl around me when I got involved in it, tennis was my main concern.

I enjoy hitting tennis balls. I haven't lost any of the innocent parts of tennis. I just do it in front of less people.

Tennis is for me joy, nothing less than that.