If you give me a short shot I will attack you. I'm not a baseliner who rallies. I try to get the point over with.

I always had a powerful serve. It's one of the best in women's tennis. It's very good to have a weapon like that.

I didn't know I could even be a professional tennis player, honestly. All this is actually very, very unexpected.

You are always talking about yourself and tennis and how you are feeling. I try to avoid it when I don't have to.

I'm very interested in tennis, but when I try to tell younger players about [Bill] Tilden, they're not interested.

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

I think, of course, when you are coming somewhere, when you know you are playing good tennis, it always helps you.

All my life I'd woken up to tennis, tennis, tennis. Even if I don't go to practise, I'm thinking about it all day.

I'm not the best player in the history of tennis. I think I'm amongst the best. That's true. That's enough for me.

Some of us have the good fortune of some type of natural gift, whether it's playing tennis or painting or writing.

I love tennis! I've always felt like this because it is such a classy sport with a great, competitive flair to it.

Tennis doesn't owe me anything. Tennis is one of the fairest sports. It's given me so many extraordinary feelings.

In tennis, there is the forehand, the backhand, the overhead smash and the drop volley, all with a different grip.

There's no doubt there are issues with clay. Our issues have issues that are issues right now. That's not a secret.

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

What I love about tennis is the gracefulness. It's an aggressive and powerful game, but it takes touch and finesse.

Everything in tennis is so neat and nice but boxing has sport down to its essence; it is very pure and I like that.

I come from a family that has always emphasized and enjoyed sports - golf, tennis, football, baseball and the rest.

My feelings are Yevgeny Kafelnikov should take his prize money when he is done here and go and buy some perspective.

I have a passion for playing tennis and enjoy the workload and struggles of performing in this amazing global sport.

To win a gold medal at Olympic Games has long been my dream ever since I started my career as a table tennis player.

The Olympics is not for tennis and tennis does not need the Olympics. It is not my goal in life to win a gold medal.

I never close my mind to anything and eventually want to branch out. But for now, tennis is still number one for me.

I just try to play tennis and don't find excuses. You know, I just lost because I lost, not because my arm was sore.

Tennis is a small window. You're not going to have unlimited chances, unlimited opportunities. You can't waste time.

I was glad to watch the soccer because it helps my tennis game, realize maybe they're just rooting for the underdog.

Sometimes you're looking to play perfect tennis but it's not going to happen all the time and you have to accept it.

Even as a kid, I'd kick a tennis ball against a wall with both feet for hours. That was one way to become two-footed.

You always want to win. That is why you play tennis, because you love the sport and try to be the best you can at it.

People don't ask Andre Agassi, 'You know you're the No. 1 tennis player in the world... have you thought about polo?'

I never wanted to be the great guy or the colorful guy or the interesting guy. I wanted to be the guy who won titles.

Bjorn Borg looks like a hunchbacked, jut-bottomed version of Lizabeth Scott, impersonating a bearded Apache princess.

My role is to think about tennis and to help Serena Williams be the best she can be and do what she wants to achieve.

Tennis was never work for me, tennis was fun. And the tougher the battle and the longer the match, the more fun I had.

I ride a bicycle. I make artwork and do other kinds of stuff - but in terms of unwind, I like to play tennis and ride.

While I'm more of a soccer and tennis fan myself, I still enjoying catching some football games when I get the chance.

There are many moments during a match when you are tense, wrestling with yourself. Tennis is a lesson in self-control.

I don't need to come back to Wimbledon every year because I can't live without it. I'd be totally cool without tennis.

There were many occasions in my career where I could have given up, where I asked myself whether I would ever make it.

When you walk on a court, clear your mind of everything unrelated to the goal of playing the match as well as you can.

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 was a child who was interested in sports, and represented my school in football, cricket, badminton and table tennis.

If I don't play well, then it's not the end of the world, because we all learn in tennis that there's always next week.

They call him the Streak, he likes to turn the other cheek. He's always making the news, wearing just his tennis shoes.

In my mind, I'm always the best. If I walk out on the court (and) I think the next person is better, I've already lost.

I enjoy hitting tennis balls. I haven't lost any of the innocent parts of tennis. I just do it in front of less people.

Our view is that the very best data miners or statisticians can earn as much as the very best golfers or tennis players.

I'm super, super casual. I like boxer shorts or jeans or tank tops, tennis shoes and flip flops. That's about it for me.

There is no cheap way to achieve the ability to turn pro in tennis; it unfortunately is more expensive than team sports.

That's one of the best sets I've seen him play, although I should preface that by saying I haven't seen him play before.

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