Quotes About Tennis

Yes, yes, I'm very happy that I finally got through this match, beat No. 7 in the world. It's my best win so far. So I'm really happy the way I play today and felt really strong on the court physically, mentally.

I used to play tennis growing up and then didn't play for a good 10 years. I've picked up the sport again and I absolutely love it.

I grew up eating anything at any time and going straight on court. So I'm not really that picky.

No question, when you're talking about Grand Slams, they're the pinnacle of the game, and that's what I want to be winning.

People will say, 'Who are your role models, and who are your pioneers?' And the first person that comes to my mind is Billie Jean King because we didn't have women that we could watch when I was growing up.

When I'm tired, I like to go and do drills where you catch tennis balls off walls. Different colors use different hands, and you've got to react to those types of things at different angles. I do all these crazy reaction-time things or reaction skills with tennis balls every morning, or at least four times a week.

I'm not a team sports person type person, so I probably would have been good at tennis, because I like tennis. But my parents really didn't push me. I think if my parents would have guided me and stay committed, I could have played any sport I wanted to, but I never did.

I think tennis and golf have had a large boost in participation with a lot of people wanting to take up the game since the start of the pandemic.

You want to try and win as many slams as possible in your career. As a tennis player, that's what we always dream of as a kid, wanting to play slams, wanting to win them.

I love women's tennis, and I want it to do well. But I don't want to pander. I don't have to be warm and fuzzy. I just want to be respected.

If you screw things up in tennis, it's 15-love. If you screw up in boxing, it's your ass.

Juan Martin del Potro

Any time you get to play a champion like Serena, it's amazing.

It was a pleasure to share the court with Serena; she's such a champion.

I think we are big believers that we can provide the answers to help grow team tennis in America and create American champions.

I think we have to get more kids into the sport in order to grow American champions. And the way to do that is that kids 10-and-under have to keep tennis as their first sport.

The less top players that are in the draw, the higher the chances get for us, obviously.

I've always been into sport, I watch all sport - I love golf, tennis, football and to me to box and have people in the arena cheering me on, I'll always miss that.

A lot of what I enjoy about tennis is the cheering crowd.

I'll come in from playing tennis in the morning and eat leftover grilled chicken.

Tennis chose me. It's something I never fell in love with.

Growing up, I wanted to be Chris Evert.

I'm superstitious as far as stuff around the courts. I'll eat the same things and drink the same things, and have the same breakfast in the morning.

Clay... is my favorite surface.