Quotes About Dedication

It's true I always try to be as seductive as possible but I wouldn't be here if I couldn't play tennis.

I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.

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'm really trying to focus myself on playing tennis, and I think that's really important.

Since a month, two months ago, you know, I've started hitting the ball well. I'm playing some really good tennis. That really helps. I sort of have to motivate myself to get pumped up. It really helps my game a lot.

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

I don't think tennis is a glamour game, not at all.

I've played too many tennis hours.

I don't play tennis at all.

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

I have always been guided by striving to show the best that I could. That is what kept me going in tennis and it is the same now.

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've got more out of tennis than I could ever give back.

I'm slightly influenced by sport in that I like the idea of trying, like an athlete, to keep absolutely ready. That's an emotional thing, almost. I don't mean physically, although I play tennis. But you try to keep yourself ready.

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?'

Tennis is a full-time job and not just the two hours that people see when we're on the court.

I want to play my best tennis at the Grand Slams.