Quotes About Athlete

I'm a football player. I believe I'm just as tough as anybody else. I try not to play like a wide receiver.

If I could coach LeBron James for one year, I could make him an All-Pro wide receiver.

Magic is crazy. He is that crazy wild guy on the basketball court that is very intense and very serious. He is the guy who lives and eats and breathes basketball.

The footballer I've admired most in the last ten years is Zinedine Zidane... one of those rare individuals who had the skill but also incredible vision.

People tend to like an athlete's performance, but if you don't get a feeling for the individual, you're not very emotive about them.

One of my tendencies is to let the ball drift too far forward in my stance, and it's something I've been working on with David Leadbetter.

Tennis has been a part of my life since I was five years old.

To me, anyone with an Australian accent wielding a tennis racket is cool.

There is a fear of emotion in tennis.

Tennis is an individual sport, and I am quite a self-conscious person.

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

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.

Me, I'm a rising star for American tennis. I'm really proud to represent my country and hopefully I can keep going higher.

Tennis is what I do and is part of who I am.

I began playing in the Pacific Coast Indoor Tennis Championships.

I won't admit to having a poster of Borg on my bedroom door. But I certainly found him to be someone who got me way more into tennis.

We have a lot of great lesbian role models in tennis. I mean, Martina Navratilova in her heyday was probably the greatest female athlete on the planet. Martina just kept breaking every rule. That's a great role model.

It's tennis. I'm still human. I'm not a robot.

Changing public perceptions is important. Nobody bats an eyelid in a team sport when a player gets injured and is still getting paid. In tennis, there is nothing like that.

All we see is gym, tennis court, and bed.

I'm 6ft 7in and I was a bit like a giraffe on the tennis court, though I did play at county level.

I'm a decent tennis player. Good backhand.

I was a tennis player in high school and college.

There are a lot of pretty girls. I am a tennis player first of all, that is why I am here, and if wasn't producing results no one would notice me.