Quotes About Commitment

I had not picked up a tennis racket in 15 years, so I tried.

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.

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.

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'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.

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

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

So, yeah, Dad was right. Tennis was the way to go.

I think it is very important to have a life off the court, and to me, it wasn't that hard to balance tennis and a relationship.

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 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.

My priority is always playing tennis and practising and doing my schedule with my tennis.

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