Quotes About Opportunity

I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis.

I've been playing tennis, and just whatever sport is in front of me I will do.

In the tennis world, there weren't a whole lot of Asians playing. You see it a little bit more now. The same can really be said for basketball.

If I stay healthy and I'm playing good tennis I have as good a chance as anybody.

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.

All you have to do is drive by the empty tennis courts and basketball courts and compare them to the skate parks... c'mon people, get with the program - the future is now!

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

Like many entrepreneurs, I started out in sales. I began at 14, when I got a job selling shoes and tennis rackets at a pro shop, and I've been selling one thing or another ever since.

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.

White folks may let you in their country clubs to play golf, invite you out to dinner, take you out to play tennis, but when it comes to dividing up the money, that's a whole 'nother story.

I stumbled into tennis.

It is a time for women's tennis to return to the light, as it were, and be on a par with men's tennis, which is at a very high level.

If we push for the children to know tennis, they have the chance to like it.

My family are tennis coaches, and they always brought me to the tennis club. I basically had no other option than to start playing tennis.

My role at the USTA allows me to fulfill my ambition to open up opportunities for people to play tennis that may not otherwise have a chance or an outlet to play.

For players from every age and every ability, the USTA National Campus will raise the bar on how we deliver tennis with the goal of making our great sport more accessible to more people than ever before.

I think tennis is very different than most of the other sports when you have the opportunity to go pro. For me, it was pretty simple. Tennis was always an individual sport, and your direct results determined where you could go and what you could do.

Women's tennis is very open. You really never know who going to be there.

I received a lot from tennis, so it's good to help others because it's very difficult. Many talented kids get lost because they don't have the money. Tennis is an expensive sport in Romania.

My mother said I would have more chances to become a tennis player than a football player.

It is morally wrong for this country to require our citizens to take on tens of thousands of dollars of debt to achieve the American Dream.

In truth, ending DACA will cost us tens of thousands of jobs and billions of dollars in economic activity.

I made a very concerted decision to go to drama school in the United States. But I did have the opportunity to go to Britain's Central School of Speech and Drama, and my dad and I had a few tense words about that. He wanted me to go to British drama school.

But due to the present regulations the other drivers have better chances again. This brings back the tension.