The only possible regret I have is the feeling that I will die without having played enough tennis.

I don't always choose to stay fit by playing tennis, because that comes with its own wear-and-tear.

When you do something best in life, you don't really want to give that up - and for me it's tennis.

I grew up a little girl in the Soviet Union playing at a small sports club. Tennis gave me my life.

I have fond memories of my kabaddi exploits at Lawrence School. I also enjoyed tennis and swimming.

When I walk through that gate to the court, that's my escape. I block out everything, good and bad.

My reality was that I would become a tennis player. I never had any doubt about it. It was my life.

With all the injury problems we have in men's tennis at the moment, I'm happy to still be standing.

Whatever I do, I love to win. I don't care if it's tennis or ping pong, I'll kill myself to win it.

The thing I learned from playing tennis is that I know what competition is. I can handle rejection.

I hope that I have accomplished just one thing: that I have been a credit to tennis and my country.

I'm an American. You can't go on where you were born. If you do then John McEnroe would be a German.

Greatest thing in life: Winning a tennis match. Second greatest thing in life: Losing a tennis match

Acting is like a sporting match; a tennis game, but no one should win or lose. The game's the thing!

Where is women's sports prominently displayed with the men? Tennis is the only thing I can think of.

When I was 12, every little girl in Russia was trying to wear her hair like mine and playing tennis.

The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I'll never be as good as a wall.

Tennis is more than just a sport. It's an art, like the ballet. Or like a performance in the theater.

Whoever has played tennis knows the court is pretty big and you always have space to put the ball in.

We don't talk about tennis. I figure she knows what she's doing. I mean, what am I going to tell her?

If you can keep playing tennis when somebody is shooting a gun down the street, that's concentration.

People often put me in a V-neck tennis club sweater, driving a Bentley, but my life wasn't like that.

Gender is irrelevant. Certainly the tennis ball doesn't know what the gender was of the tennis coach.

I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.

I was so tired of playing tennis, so tired of traveling, of hotels, everything related to this sport.

Sometimes I wish I could have been a bit more relaxed, but then I wouldn't have been the same player.

It's like love. When you look too hard, you don't find it. When you let it happen naturally, it comes.

Myself and Cameron Lickle travel around North America in an RV and we conduct tennis clinics in clubs.

The tennis wasn't really very much on my mind, so it wasn't like I was thinking about it all the time.

In the history of women's tennis the great players have come back from long absences with no problems.

Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.

One Oxford poet confessed to me that I had been scary because I talked American and wore tennis shoes.

I think, for me, I just really want to have fun with every match that I play because tennis is a game.

With everything else that would swirl around me when I got involved in it, tennis was my main concern.

My mother wanted very much to play tennis; she wanted, most of all, to be a singer and play the piano.

It's true I always try to be as seductive as possible but I wouldn't be here if I couldn't play tennis.

Equality? They ought to play the women's final on opening day. Everybody knows who's going to be in it.

If I can't serve on grass, I can maybe help cut the grass, paint the lines and serve some strawberries.

I just enjoy watching tennis. And there's things that you can learn from the men's and the women's game.

Family's first, and that's what matters most. We realize that our love goes deeper than the tennis game.

The Human Species could have been great but instead we became satisfied with lights on our tennis shoes.

For the first couple of years I played really bad tennis. It was so bad that they booed me off the court

No matter what happens, tennis is still tennis: You can see a lot of great matches, a lot of new people.

The women tennis pros don't really want equal pay for equal work. They want equal pay for inferior work.

Acting is a sport, like a game of tennis, and you and your opponent take turns setting the level of play.

Tennis is failing to renew its fanbase. And that's very worrying, because the future doesn't look bright.

My audiences have given me lots of love as a tennis player. I hope they appreciate my passion for acting.

I let my racket do the talking. That's what I am all about, really. I just go out and win tennis matches.

Definition of Love: A score of zero in tennis. I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears of all my life.

It's pretty hard being a tennis player and Mother Theresa at the same time and that's just the way it is.

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