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I bought my Grasshoppers tennis shoes at a flea market in Brooklyn. They are so comfortable to lounge around in on tour.
My mom, she's from Ireland, coached tennis in Nigeria when she was a missionary and turned me on to it when I was young.
No, actually I wanted to play five. I definitely wanted to try to lose that fourth set and test the waters in the fifth.
I'm amazed that years after I stopped playing tennis, people still recognize me in restaurants and ask for my autograph.
Usually, I wear tennis shoes because my feet are flat, and it hurts to wear anything other than shoes that are cushiony.
I did everything - swimming, dancing, and badminton as well as tennis. It was always tennis that I really loved, though.
I played tennis when I was younger. I don't know if I could have been a professional, but I am still passionate about it.
I enjoy horse riding, tennis, yoga and running - it helps to clear my head, and I can do bits of yoga in between filming.
As a child, I was lucky to have the support of my parents because starting a tennis career is a very expensive adventure.
Wimbledon is getting a bit too like Royal Ascot. It's not what happens or who wins so much, as what clothes do I have on.
These ball boys are marvellous. You don't even notice them. There's a left handed one over there. I noticed him earlier .
It's very expensive to be a professional tennis player with all the travel and the flights and the hotels and everything.
Forget about tennis, I was scared to open my mouth. I didnt even feel worthy of saying something and not sounding stupid.
I got a message from a little girl just saying that she's starting to play tennis because of me. That was pretty amazing.
Tennis is my life, obviously; I need to focus, I need to win. But it's not the only thing. I'm not going to play forever.
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.
Once the US Open is over in the States, mainstream America doesn't really follow tennis, unless you are a true tennis fan.
Sometimes when you're putting the work in it just seems so, so hard, and you never know when that work's going to pay off.
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'm just super competitive. Squash, tennis, water skiing, computer games... Even if I played you at pool, I'd have to win.
In 1980 I was attacked by a dog in Spain and was temporarily blinded in one eye - I thought it would end my tennis career.
I have a TV Soap Boomerang award, and I always start my year with the Australian Open tennis! Tennis, soccer, you name it.
If the weather is nice, I play tennis, which is pretty much the only exercise that I do. I try to do that as much as I can.
It's good when you're out there on a tennis court. There's nowhere to hide. It's all you, tactically, physically, mentally.
I know China are very good in table tennis. Let me see what happens in tennis. I am pretty happy with the way I am playing.
New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up.
You don't go home and talk about the great tennis courts that you played, but you do talk about the golf courses you played.
In our house, the name for all athletic shoes - any that weren't dress or 'church' shoes - was 'tennis shoes,' or 'tennies.'
Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.
I am there to play tennis and represent the U.S., but I'm also aware that not everyone's going to be able to think that way.
I would like to thank all my tennis fans who were there from Day One when I was No. 1, through my stabbing, and my comeback.
My mom fed us a million balls. Dad took us to tournaments. Couldn't have done it without them. We had a happy tennis family.
These girls play tennis first and foremost, the fact that many of them are very glamorous is a major bonus for any promoter.
I grew up on games like Madden and NBA Jam, then moved on to NFL 2K on Dreamcast. The game I really loved was Virtua Tennis.
I like things to feel a touch unfinished; sweatpants with heels, or tennis shoes with a trouser. Those things are important.
Four days a week, I do gymming, four days marital arts. Once a week I normally play lawn tennis, and once a week I horseride.
Tennis has to be very careful.Not everyone is a computer, it is very good we have John McEnroe. I hope we have a couple more.
It was so inspiring for me to watch tennis growing up. I thought I was really good playing, until my brother told me I wasn't!
I started in a very small tennis club in a South American country where I never thought about becoming the best tennis player.
Women have it better in tennis than any other sport, but you shouldn't push them to play more than they're capable of playing.
But it is impossible to enjoy a tennis game, a book, or a conversation unless attention is fully concentrated on the activity.
I don't like running that much, and during the off-season, I have to do it, but if I can replace it with tennis, it is better.
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 don't do a huge amount of physical activity. I play tennis, I work out sporadically, and I eat well and take care of myself.
I like to keep fit, and when not gardening or singing solo or in a choir, I cycle, play tennis, swim, dance, and practise yoga.
I think it is very important to have a life off the court, and to me, it wasn't that hard to balance tennis and a relationship.
It's crazy how it is. I mean, I go from being not known to, you know, being so known in the tennis world, in Canada in general.
I played tennis at underneath - Brooklyn Bridge? Manhattan Bridge? Williamsburg Bridge? There are courts on the Manhattan side.
In Hollywood people lie to each other and cheat each other and then go and play tennis. But I don't want to be a tennis player.
Martina's like the old Green Bay Packers. You know exactly what she's going to do, but there isn't a thing you can do about it.