Quotes About Tennis

When I was 11, I won my first nationals at Savannah, defeating Kelly Henry in the finals.

I won the Wimbledon mixed doubles title in 1980.

I'd won the Australian Open twice, but winning Wimbledon takes something special.

Anna Kournikova will always be better paid than Lindsay Davenport. The first left the circuit without having won a single title while the second was world number one.

I will have won Wimbledon this year in 2013, and I will stop with that. It was magnificent. You will certainly see me at tournaments again, but not playing.

I don't care when people use the term 'one-Slam wonder' with me.

Billie and I did wonders for women's tennis. They owe me a piece of their checks.

Why don't they go back to wood racquets? Then we would see the best tennis to be played.

I think the players, I put in the book for example that we should go back to wood rackets, probably they laughed at me, I'm a dinosaur, but I think that you see these great players, have even more variety and you see more strategy, there'd be more subtlety.

I would like to see it go back to the wood racquets. To see the touch put back in tennis.

When we used the small-faced racquets and wood racquets, we had to use every part of the court.

Looking back, in comparison, there wasn't that much that you could do with a wooden racket. In my day, the matches were certainly much less demanding physically.

I was 7 years old and my dad gave me a wooden tennis racket.

I think that's what it's all about; you work hard and practice to play on the big courts.

For me, motivation is easy. I enjoy what I'm doing, and I'm lucky to play tennis. I enjoy the suffering. It's something quite natural for me to go on the court and suffer, and to go in the gym and to suffer, and to know the only way to get better is to work out - that's what I like.

I work out a lot, but it changes day to day. I always start out with some cardio - either a jog, a bike ride, or footwork drills designed specifically for tennis movement. Then I do weights, but I switch the days: one day it's upper body, the next day it's lower body. Then I do stomach and back pretty much every day.

Bjorn was a different breed, I threw my best material at him, but he would never smile, but that added to the charm when he played me and Mac. We were going nuts and losing our mind and he was sitting back like he was on a Sunday stroll.

I can think of matches I played where I played one or two points perfectly, and that gave me a thrill.

A major final to a tennis player is sacred ground. Short of any type of serious injury - soft-tissue tears, serious orthopedic injuries or a major illness like throwing up, dehydration or cramping - you keep going, especially in the final of a Slam.

Tennis is a beautiful sport but it's also a sport where you get thrown out there into the world and it's on an international level. As an athlete and as a human being you're learning. You're a kid.

Under a pulsating full moon, the gussied-up Billie Jean King National Tennis Center seems much softer and prettier at night, with the fountains bubbling and fans without tickets to the big stadium sitting in the plaza and watching a big screen.

You'd be surprised at how many times I'd hit the ball, and the hair would go straight into my eyes. That's why, even when I play indoors, I wear a visor, because it stops that, and I'll apply a lot of gel and hairspray to keep it tight.

Sometimes in a match, when things get tight, you want to feel like you can swing out on the ball and still have control.

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