Quotes About Career

I've been linked with lots of clubs but that's what tends to happen if you stay in the same job for five years. It means you have brought a level of success.

I gotta make money - it all tends to disappear in this field.

One tends to look back at the mistakes as the same thing - relinquishing control of something at some point in your career.

Guys that are playing in the last year of their contracts are playing for their livelihood and that tends to come off as selfish.

I'd like to be a U.S. senator from Tennessee.

It's important to understand that you have to dedicate time to your sponsors, to have relationships with the people and the media, but it is also hard when you are first coming up and your primary focus is on tennis.

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

It is just a crazy life as a sportsman. My daughter, Sam, wants to go into tennis, and I tell her, 'No, you don't want to go into professional sport.'

I would be happy to do more sightseeing. I would love to do more after my tennis career.

I just wanted to play tennis. It wasn't a job. It was an ambition. I knew I could make money at it. I was 18 - old enough to think I could do it, young enough not to consider the consequences.

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

Serena and I have done some great career planning, and we're playing really at the peak of our tennis right now. I think tennis has been a sport where people play this insane schedule from 14 years old, so of course at 26, it's over. We've really paced ourselves.

Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.

I'm only seeing tennis balls these days. And maybe the occasional fashion sketch.

If I didn't play tennis I don't know where I'd be.

My parents paid me small amounts for cleaning my room or cleaning the dishes and stuff, but I never really had a real job before I started on my professional tennis career.

I'm convinced being a tennis analyst is the easiest job in the world.

Tennis is a full-time job and not just the two hours that people see when we're on the court.

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

I've been very focused on my career outside of tennis.

If I didn't love tennis, I wouldn't be playing. That's also why I don't know how long I will be playing because if I start feeling like this is not what I want to do anymore, that there's not really any reason anymore.

I obviously grew up on a court, but there wasn't any, 'All right, we're going to name him 'Tennis,' and he's going to be a professional.'

I did interviews with tennis greats, like James Blake and John Isner. I also interviewed tennis pros who aren't well - known but who made all the same sacrifices but had just a little spark of a professional career and are now still orbiting the sport, either as a teaching pro or a coach.

Stress is part of your career. You have to accept it and deal with it because there is a lot of emotion in tennis.