Quotes About Passion

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?'

I grew up surrounded by tennis, so I was obviously more interested in it than football - particularly as it's the most popular sport.

I used to go swimming and passed the tennis courts every day, and that's how it started. My mum said, 'Why don't you play tennis in your summer holidays because you have nothing to do except swim for an hour or whatever?,' and that's how I started playing.

I love tennis. I've played it my whole life. Loved it since the age of three. I had an injury, so from the age of 13 to 24 I didn't play much. Then when I moved out to L.A., there were so many tennis courts that I rekindled the love.

I have a passion for playing tennis and enjoy the workload and struggles of performing in this amazing global sport.

Me writing about tennis is like a baker baking bread.

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.

You can ask a lot of the people around me - I'm very demanding. I expect them to be as intense about my tennis on a daily basis as I am.

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.

I did everything - swimming, dancing, and badminton as well as tennis. It was always tennis that I really loved, though.

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

I won't admit to having a poster of Borg on my bedroom door. But I certainly found him to be someone who got me way more into tennis.

If I didn't love tennis, I wouldn't be playing. That's also why I don't know how long I will be playing because if I start feeling like this is not what I want to do anymore, that there's not really any reason anymore.

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

My priority is always playing tennis and practising and doing my schedule with my 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 is what I've always wanted to do, so it is my dream to be on top.

I think I love my sport. I enjoy to play tennis. It's my passion.

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

I obviously grew up on a court, but there wasn't any, 'All right, we're going to name him 'Tennis,' and he's going to be a professional.'

I stumbled into tennis.

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

When I don't enjoy it anymore, I'll stop. But I think as long as people want me to be where the action is, I'll be there. I just love to play tennis.