Power thrills, consistency kills.
Equality? They ought to play the women's final on opening day. Everybody knows who's going to be in it.
Tennis: the most perfect combination of athleticism, artistry, power, style, and wit. A beautiful game, but one so remorselessly travestied by the passage of time.
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.
Usually, I wear tennis shoes because my feet are flat, and it hurts to wear anything other than shoes that are cushiony.
Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it.
One of the greatest joys of tennis is having a nice volley and not really keeping score, not really looking at the lines, but just catching up with each other.
True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.
Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
Tennis is a mental game. Everyone is fit, everyone hits great forehands and backhands.
I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
I want my tennis to speak for everything.
Family's first, and that's what matters most. We realize that our love goes deeper than the tennis game.
If you can keep playing tennis when somebody is shooting a gun down the street, that's concentration.
Tennis is mostly mental. Of course, you must have a lot of physical skill, but you can't play tennis well and not be a good thinker. You win or lose the match before you even go out there.
Tennis was never work for me, tennis was fun. And the tougher the battle and the longer the match, the more fun I had.
The Gullikson twins here. An interesting pair, both from Wisconsin.
It's quite clear that Virginia Wade is thriving on the pressure now that the pressure on her to do well is off .
We haven't had any more rain since it stopped raining.
When I play, I feel like in a theatre, why should I look ugly then, because I'm a tennis player?
Tennis is a young man's game. Until you're 25, you can play singles. From 25 to 35, you should play doubles. I won't tell you exactly how old I am, but when I played, there were 28 men on the court - just on my side of the net.
No-one is friends with Hewitt and he does not worry me at all.
If she gets the jitters now, then she isn't the great champion that she is.
When Martina is tense it helps her relax.
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.
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