Words matter. These are the best Pam Shriver Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
To be part of the big picture, whether it’s celebrity interviews or seeing how big the U.S. Open is in New York or on the world stage, is amazing.
My office is just off my master bedroom. One of my theories is I needed to double-door it with three kids at home.
When I was 13, tennis became more of my life. It’s when I gave up skiing, I gave up winter sports. I still played varsity basketball my freshman year of high school – basketball was the last sport I gave up for my tennis.
I took more anti-inflammatories probably than anybody in my 20 years of playing and I know what that terrible stomach pain can be. I also know what terrible menstruation cramps can be, as most women tennis players have, to the point where you feel nauseous, but you just play on.
I got to one Grand Slam final, and that’s what you shoot for as a player.
I haven’t always been as gracious a loser as I could have been.
I have horrible handwriting, horrible spelling and horrible grammar.
But politics is something that would require so much of me. I’m a public figure now, but as a politician… It’s more likely that I’ll become a sportscaster than a politician.
If I had to write a novel, I’d start crying after three lines.
I became president of the players’ association and was willing to have conversations with influential people about equal prize money or how the tour could be promoted and structured in a way to make women’s tennis better.
I’ve learned to really appreciate the courtside position and the art of picking up certain subtleties. Player expression you can’t see from a camera angle, or the booth.
Living in Los Angeles and having three little kids, it’s hard following the Orioles.
I feel like the NBA, WNBA, tennis and basketball have really been at the forefront of social justice and pushing for change from the athlete platform.
I feel that I can make certain shots, tough shots, and that I can play better when things aren’t going well.
I didn’t mean to offend anybody. It’s my filter. I constantly work on it.
When you’re in the second set and you start thinking I have to win this and get it over, the pressure to finish quickly can get to you.
Even when I played, if they gave me the microphone after a match, whether a doubles final or a singles final, I’d handle the microphone pretty well.
You realize as an athlete that there is a bit of a clock, and you don’t want to look back on a career and say, ‘I wish I had done this a bit differently.’
I was given advice early in the quarantine: Don’t focus on what you don’t have. Focus on what you do have and will have again, and I’ve said that to myself over and over again.
Being a 6-foot-tall tennis player is not great for a girl’s social life.
Eventually I ran for the board of the WTA, lost my first attempt, got on the board my second attempt, and stayed there through most of my career.
The microphone is open. There is no delay. If I see something and want to say it right now, I can.
I think my best tennis is good enough to win.
It was quite the intimidating Sunday afternoon, US Open finals day for me. Sixteen years old, the 16th seed, second major, first US Open, as an amateur, playing Chris Evert.
Have a living will if you don’t want long-term life support. It makes the decision easier for the family.
