Tennis Quotes

"Tennis just a game, family is forever"

"Ever since that day when I was 11 years old, and I wasn't allowed in a photo because I wasn't wearing a tennis skirt, I knew that I wanted to change the sport"

"Men can have a huge turnover of sponsorship and still survive a lot better than the women. But the women's ratings are better, at least at home in the United States than in the men's tennis"

"I was always in the tennis business-from 1968. I was in tournaments and also on World Team Tennis teams as well"

"I love to promote our sport. I love grass-roots tennis. I love coaching. I love all parts of the sport. I love the business side"

"I used to be told if I talked about my sexuality in any way that we wouldn't have a tennis tour"

"I like putting money back into what made my life, and tennis has been great to me"

"There is no life for girls in team sports past Little League. I got into tennis when I realized this, and because I thought golf would be too slow for me, and I was too scared to swim"

"Tennis is what I do and is part of who I am"

"I always wanted to help make tennis a team sport"

"Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down"

"There are a lot of pretty girls. I am a tennis player first of all, that is why I am here, and if wasn't producing results no one would notice me"

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

"It's that I have a good personality and am a good tennis player"

"I think that tennis is a lady's sport, so we should look out there like ladies"

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

"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"

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

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

"I am here to play women's tennis. I'm a lady. Predominantly, most of the time I always like to play ladies"

"Tennis just a game, family is forever"

"I don't make a habit of watching tennis matches, but I try to watch all the major finals. I try to make time for that. So unless I have something going with the kids where I can't, I try to watch, and I enjoy that"

"It wasn't my tennis that made me lose, it was a lot of different things going on, high drama, high emotion"

"What I want out of tennis is not necessarily just winning"

"I was very, very shy as a younger girl, just petrified of people. Tennis helped give me an identity and made me feel like somebody"

"If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life"

"When I was younger, I was a robot. Wind her up and she plays tennis"

"Well, I think, you know, the university and the high schools are also important, but depends how I'm going to do in tennis - well, I hope. I mean, it depends, so I don't know yet"

"I love swimming, tennis, and I am taking up golf. I am not serious about it, I just go to the range and practice. Other than that, I enjoy going to the movies and hanging out with my friends"

"Yeah, I think there are many other important things in life, not just tennis"