I love to go out and have fun, but I’m not all about partying, so that’s a perfect place for me to get away from tennis with my friends. I think Canberra is the best place in the world.
Even though I’m 32, I feel like I’m playing my best-ever tennis and like the best years are ahead of me.
Night tennis began at the United States Open in 1975 with certain stars trying to beg out and certain patrons trying to dump unwanted tickets on scalpers.
As a teenager, Monica Seles won some historic matches on the tennis court, dominating opponents and filling a room with trophies.
I like physical exercise. I cycle, run, and play tennis and football with my son.
Tennis is seen all around the world; if I am home or anywhere in the country, United States, people will stare.
I love playing tennis. To me this is not a workout, but a fun extracurricular activity I do with friends so it doesn’t feel like I’m working out.
When you do something best in life, you don’t really want to give that up – and for me it’s tennis.
These girls play tennis first and foremost, the fact that many of them are very glamorous is a major bonus for any promoter.
I love an actor who comes in, ready to work. It’s like a good tennis player. They hit the ball where you don’t expect it, and it’s great.
You always need to try hard to find solutions. It’s the same in life or tennis.
When my heart rate is so high, I seem to be able to play even better, without making bad decisions. It almost switches the mind off, so that I can play more instinctive tennis.
I have a passion for playing tennis and enjoy the workload and struggles of performing in this amazing global sport.
I think everything I do in my life I try to have fun, and I try to be creative on the tennis court, outside the tennis court.
My tennis is aggressive, though I wouldn’t say that it’s more physical than technical. I rely more on technique than physique, but being physical is always a help to me.
Tennis is so competitive. I guess that’s the way it has to be.
I just go out and play my best tennis.
I got a message from a little girl just saying that she’s starting to play tennis because of me. That was pretty amazing.
I’m very proud to be a professional tennis player. I’m really happy to be doing something that I love. With this comes responsibility, and I am honored when I am told that I have inspired someone to play tennis.
If I’m on holiday, I’m active on the beach, I play tennis, I run, I swim a lot. It’s just about making the workouts fun, I think, and then it doesn’t really feel that bad.
I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.
I’m a great sports fan, you know. I love to watch tennis and basketball and baseball and so on.
It’s one thing if you live in London and you’re rooting for Chelsea or you’re in New York and you love the Giants or Jets and no matter who’s on the team you’re into it. It’s different in tennis; you’re sort of your own guy, so you have to reach out and grab a person in a different way.
In tennis, it is not the opponent you fear, it is the failure itself, knowing how near you were but just out of reach.
I think the reason my relationship works so well with my dad is that we can separate our tennis lives from our personal lives.
I’m only superstitious on the tennis court.
Tennis is fake. We have real characters, but they don’t dare to be themselves, and the code of conduct has a lot to do with that.
You have to be realistic. I’d love to be more famous, have lots of people supporting me, people knowing my name, but I need a tennis racket or a golf club or to play football. Being a female, I don’t stand a chance.
I was OK at tennis – good enough to beat Serena Williams, definitely… But no, I don’t really like playing solo sport,s so I don’t think I could have got to the top. I was just decent. Maths is my true calling in life, which is bizarre.
Tennis was a big part of my life from as far back as I can remember.
I always have a Sharpie, because usually when someone asks me for an autograph, they don’t have a pen. I carry one in my purse, as well as in my tennis bag.
I feel comfortable on and off the court, happy in my own skin, just really comfortable with the way I’m playing my tennis.
I received a lot from tennis, so it’s good to help others because it’s very difficult. Many talented kids get lost because they don’t have the money. Tennis is an expensive sport in Romania.
At some point, you have worked so hard in your life and your tennis that you don’t want to be too much up and down. You want to do what you have done and eventually get better.
Tennis lets you talk while you’re playing.
To me, acting is like tennis. You’re only as good as the person you’re playing with, so if you’re playing with Michael C. Hall, what do you have to worry about?
Contractions, ‘U’ for ‘you’ and the like are wonderful to make communication brief and efficient – but we wouldn’t want all our talk to be only brief and efficient. Taking pauses out of language would be like taking the net away from a tennis game. Where would all the fun go?
My dad said if you become a tennis professional just make sure you get into the top hundred, because you have to make a little bit of money. You make a living so you can pay your coaching and, you know, your travels.
I, as a cricketer, would like to see 100 counties playing top-flight cricket, just like tennis and football. If I am alive to see that, I will be very happy.
One of the greatest joys of tennis is having a nice volley and not really keeping score, not really looking at the lines, but just catching up with each other.
I do a lot of biking. I need that mileage and the long-distance stuff because tennis demands it. My fitness trainer is always trying to convince me to do an Ironman. I can probably run the marathon, I can make the 112 miles on the bike, but I will never swim for 2.4 miles. I will die after 100 meters.
I’m trying to enjoy my lie as much as I can and I know that tennis hopefully is going to be my life the next 10, 15 years.
It’s just nice to see people enthusiastic about their tennis and want to learn and improve – for me that’s the most important thing – I still love my tennis.
You can ask a lot of the people around me – I’m very demanding. I expect them to be as intense about my tennis on a daily basis as I am.
Boxing’s a poor man’s sport. We can’t afford to play golf or tennis. It is what it is. It’s kept so many kids off the street. It kept me off the street.
Tennis Canada nominated me a few years ago, and I did some research into it and realized it’s one of the biggest honours you can have as a Canadian. I’ve seen the list of the people, and it’s pretty special.
I played a lot of tennis when I was young.
When some people were going around being surf bums and tennis bums, I was being a gallery bum. I really liked galleries.
I’ve never seen a good tennis movie. They all were terrible.
Summer I was 13, my grandfather and my father taught me how to play golf. I took lessons that summer, and I played every day that summer. I probably would’ve kept playing, except I realized that girls don’t watch golf; they watch tennis. So I let my golf game go dormant and started playing tennis.
I always wanted to help make tennis a team sport.
I think in the lifetime of a tennis player there are many times where you feel that tremendous confidence.
Stop trying to treat music like it’s a tennis shoe, something to be branded. If the music industry wants to save money, they should take a look at some of their six-figure executive expense accounts. All those lawsuits can’t be cheap, either.
Golfers are forever working on mechanics. My tennis swing hasn’t changed in 10 years.
My first job was in sixth grade, sweeping the clay tennis courts at the yacht club near my house, which I was not a member of. Always had to pay my own rent. But I don’t really have any concept of how money works. I don’t know how much things cost. Like a BMW. Or a quart of milk. It’s embarrassing.
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.
Everything in tennis is so neat and nice but boxing has sport down to its essence; it is very pure and I like that.
Tennis players shouldn’t get married. It hurts your game.
Too many people asking too many questions in tennis. Golf is better.
I really try not to read the tennis articles, because a lot of times they’re guessing at how a player is feeling, and I like to keep myself kind of open minded about how I’m feeling, rather than have someone else explain to me what’s going on.
To be a professional tennis player you need to put in these sort of hours.
I do rock climbing and tennis.
My message is to get human beings to love God, love their neighbor and for the life of me I just don’t see the downside of human beings not being so mean to one another and actually care for one another and not steal from one another and not murder each other for their tennis shoes. That’s the message I have.
It is never too late to get into tennis! While I started playing at the age of 8 when my parents gave me a tennis racquet for Christmas, tennis is a lifelong sport that can be enjoyed by people of almost any age. It’s also something you never forget once you learn.
