Quotes About Dedication

Whether it's learning to hit a backhand in tennis, learning high school chemistry, or getting better at ski racing, I really believe with hard work and analytic preparation, you can skip a few steps and find the faster way.

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.

As a child, I was lucky to have the support of my parents because starting a tennis career is a very expensive adventure.

Earlier in my career, I used to spend a lot of time practising my tennis on court. Now I've learned that it's better to do just a couple of hours on court and two gym sessions a day. That's what's made me fitter and stronger.

I remember when I first started playing tennis, it was always my sister dressing me. She wanted me to look good. And then it really became a routine for me. It doesn't consume too much of my day, but it's something I always pay conscious attention to.

With tennis, no one's going to give it to you. You have to be determined.

I don't have time for easy. Tennis is just hard.

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.

If you're playing someone you care about, it's tough, and I don't want to be in that situation. We are playing big matches for big points and prize money, and I take it very seriously. I relax when I'm outside tennis.

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.

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.

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.

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.

That's my every day: putting things aside and going out there and have two hours of concentration of tennis.

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.

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 just go out and play my best tennis.