A great tennis career is something that a 15-year-old normally doesn't have. I hope my example helps other teens believe they can accomplish things they never thought possible.
I've been playing against older and stronger competition my whole life. It has made me a better tennis player and able to play against this kind of level despite their strength and experience.
Freed from the thoughts of winning, I instantly play better. I stop thinking, start feeling. My shots become a half-second quicker, my decisions become the product of instinct rather than logic.
Tennis has to become everything to you if you're going to make it to the top. You have to live it.
Tennis is so competitive. I guess that's the way it has to be.
Tennis is like marrying for money. Love means nothing.
Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.
Tennis takes care of everything. It requires agility and quickness to get to the ball, core strength to get power into your shorts and stamina to last for an entire match. In addition to toning your arms and shoulders, it's a total body workout for your legs and abs, and works your heart and core unlike any other sport.
Tennis is what I do and is part of who I am.
I have this terrible dark side to my personality, which playing tennis keeps at bay
I never knew I was grunting, it was just part of my strokes.
My motto is: I'm alive, so that means I can do anything.
Tennis is mostly mental. You win or lose the match before you even go out there.
Tennis was always sort of a - a learning. It was a vehicle for me to discover a lot about myself. And the things that I sort of discovered at times I not only didn't want to see it for myself but I certainly didn't want millions of people to see it.
It's not really a shorter skirt, I just have longer legs
My game is a lot about footwork. If I move well, I play well.
To be a tennis champion, you have to be inflexible. You have to be stubborn. You have to be arrogant. You have to be selfish and self-absorbed. Kind of tunnel vision almost.
I often surprise myself. You can't plan some shots that go in, not unless you're on marijuana, and the only grass I'm partial to is Wimbledon's.
Everyone thinks my name is Jerry Laitis and they call me Mr Laitis. What can you do when you have a name that sounds like a disease?
My feelings are Yevgeny Kafelnikov should take his prize money when he is done here and go and buy some perspective.
I didn't play my best but I won. He was a lucky loser but I think he went out of luck today.
I'm only superstitious on the tennis court.
Tennis is a fine balance between determination and tiredness.
My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.
I don't play any tournaments to come second best.
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