Quotes About Commitment

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.

Tennis players shouldn't get married. It hurts your game.

I just go out and play my best 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.

I gave up tennis to study, but not before it had shown me how to focus and concentrate. It taught me self-discipline: I was playing four or five hours a day and doing five-mile runs. When I stopped, my energy had to be channelled into something else.

If you start to hesitate with your game, if you start to not go completely with your plan, then it's tough to play your best tennis.

I was all for basketball, and I made the decision to play tennis.

I really enjoy tennis, but football's the game for me.

I've always been a person who likes to take care of myself, but there is so much to do behind the scenes, and I love to just focus on the tennis.

Tennis is one of those sports: whatever you put in, you get out.

One of the biggest things I've worked on is how to play my best tennis every single time I walk on to the court.

I did a really good job of sticking to the tennis court.

Nick Kyrgios, if you don't want to be a professional tennis player, do something else.

This is what I've always wanted to do. I've always wanted to be a professional tennis player.

To be a professional tennis player you need to put in these sort of hours.

Relationships are give-and-take, and when you're a tennis player, you're certainly not giving. You have to be self-absorbed. It has to be about you.

As a tennis player, normally you lose almost every week.

I'll prove that I'm going to be the best tennis player, one day, to play this game.

I think my family needs me more than anybody else, and tennis doesn't need me anymore. I respect my wife a lot for taking all that in. She said, 'I didn't marry a tennis player; you'd retired.' Now it's time to do something else.

I always just thought of myself as a tennis player.

My reality was that I would become a tennis player. I never had any doubt about it. It was my life.

I have no tension. I only play to give my best.