Quotes About Tennis

Tennis has opened a number of possibilities for me, and in future, it would be great to give something back.

I admire Roger Federer, not only for his tennis but also for his personality.

For my fifth birthday, I got a small tennis racket. That's how I started.

Tennis, for me, every time I went out on the court, it just gave me such joy to play.

I never thought tennis was going to give me so much satisfaction.

As far as fitness is concerned, you have to enjoy it, do good exercises, and integrate them into your tennis practice. The preparation for the season is as crucial as doing good blocks when switching from one surface to another.

You always need to try hard to find solutions. It's the same in life or tennis.

The women tennis pros don't really want equal pay for equal work. They want equal pay for inferior work.

Gender is irrelevant. Certainly the tennis ball doesn't know what the gender was of the tennis coach.

I love to play tennis. I play a lot in the summer. I'm not a big golfer; I need something a bit more intense.

It's still important to have my dad there. He's the one that brought me up and we spent a lot of time together. It's very difficult for me to let him go. He knows what's best for me and my tennis.

Billie Jean King is the personality of women's tennis.

The Czech tennis federation wasn't holding me back, but they could still pull the plug anytime they wanted.

I think my progression with tennis has been pretty steady.

I think I want to show fans what it is actually like to be an athlete. Tennis is a part of it, but there is also another job that people are not aware of, the media commitments we have, and I want them to understand this.

I sail and play tennis, and I don't smoke or drink caffeine.

Tennis was a particularly interesting growing-up experience. It's actually a difficult way of growing up because it's such an individual sport. It taught me a lot of life lessons that have been helpful later in my life.

It's important to work the core in all planes of movement, as we move in all three planes in tennis, especially into rotation and anti-rotation movements.

No matter what happens, tennis is still tennis: You can see a lot of great matches, a lot of new people.

I used to play a lot of racket sports, tennis and squash.

I can teach many sports, but obviously, tennis is the one. When you do other sports, you see things from different perspectives: different footwork drills, body positions, angles and geometry. All that stuff is helpful, and so when I do other sports, I can see things, because once you know one sport, then the other sport becomes more clear.

All the time that I'm acting with an animated character, I'm looking at a tennis ball or sticky tape or an eyeline or a man in a green suit. There's no real environment, just this electric green that's blaring into your brain.

When I wasn't playing with Barbie dolls, I was always playing with different kinds of balls, and my dad said, let's try tennis.

To play against Serena in a final is something special. You know you must play your best tennis.