Pressure is a privilege - it only comes to those who earn it.
Champions keep playing until they get it right.
A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.
When a child signs up for tennis, he or she is put on a team. I put them in a circle and then I make sure they name their own team. I would have them do their skill drills as a team and their fun drills together as a team, then they have to have a match at the end of every week. They can't just have what they call a lesson today every week.
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.
Ladies, here's a hint. If you're up against a girl with big boobs, bring her to the net and make her hit backhand volleys. That's the hardest shot for the well-endowed.
For me, losing a tennis match isn't failure, it's research.
Champions take responsibility. When the ball is coming over the net, you can be sure I want the ball.
Each point I play is in the now moment. The last point means nothing, the next point means nothing.
Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball.
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 always wanted to help make tennis a team sport.
It's about learning your craft. That's a wonderful thing--especially with today's consumerism and instant gratification. You can'tbuy that. It's about making decisions, corrections, choices. I don't think it's so much about becoming a tennis player. It's about becoming a person.
I like putting money back into what made my life, and tennis has been great to me.
I feel that tennis is an art form that is capable of moving the players and the audience - at least a knowledgeable audience-in almost sensual ways. When I'm performing at my absolute best, I think that some of the euphoria I feel must be transmitted to the audience.
As far as U.S. tennis, we need new stars coming up in the pipeline, but I don't know if we have it.
I was always in the tennis business-from 1968. I was in tournaments and also on World Team Tennis teams as well.
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 used to be told if I talked about my sexuality in any way that we wouldn't have a tennis tour.
I always listen, I ask children, I even ask adults in tennis, "What are your children playing?" And most of the time it's not tennis. It's pathetic.
It's very important to take tennis to the people. For young people, they get to see the best in the world.
Every generation I think gets better usually [in tennis].
Tennis is a game of angles. You never have time to figure the angles. It's practiced. It's so practiced that it becomes an instinct. You just know where to put the ball. You just feel it. It has been computed into your brain so many times it is there.
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.
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