Tennis was a white, upper-class sport, and I wanted it to be treated like other sports were.
I bought my Grasshoppers tennis shoes at a flea market in Brooklyn. They are so comfortable to lounge around in on tour.
When I'm sitting at home in the off season and I don't have anything to do, I watch tennis on my computer. It's kind of boring. It's something to do.
The only possible regret I have is the feeling that I will die without having played enough tennis.
I'm deadly serious even when I play tennis against my kids. I want to beat their brains out.
I enjoy tennis, though don't play very often nowadays, and skiing... oh yes and swimming.
Everything in tennis is so neat and nice but boxing has sport down to its essence; it is very pure and I like that.
My audiences have given me lots of love as a tennis player. I hope they appreciate my passion for acting.
You know why I want to win? Because of 15,000 reasons inside of the tennis court.
I'm one of those guys if I'm 100 percent and fit and ready for the tournament, I play very good tennis.
I know I'm not the best tennis player there's ever been, but calling me a loser is just ignorance.
Why don't they go back to wood racquets? Then we would see the best tennis to be played.
But it is impossible to enjoy a tennis game, a book, or a conversation unless attention is fully concentrated on the activity.
Much scientific truth proved to be as hypothetical as poetic allegory. The relationshiip of those rod-connected blue and red balls to an actual atomic structure was about the same as the relationship of Christianity to the fish or the Lamb.
I like watching tennis and basketball, but it's not every day you can watch it on TV. I don't play them, though.
I let my racket do the talking. That's what I am all about, really. I just go out and win tennis matches.
Nothing is etched in stone in tennis until the final point has been played. That's why we watch.
I always had a powerful serve. It's one of the best in women's tennis. It's very good to have a weapon like that.
Your mind, your heart, and your balls gotta be in one accord.
I come from a family that has always emphasized and enjoyed sports - golf, tennis, football, baseball and the rest.
Playing the tennis circuit, I travelled so much for so long, that being at home is now one of my favourite things.
You know what never gets schemed or what never gets stymied? Going through your reads and completing balls.
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 love tennis! I've always felt like this because it is such a classy sport with a great, competitive flair to it.
The crowds are very important for tennis. It makes you play better, but it can also make you nervous and that's the beauty of it.
The idea of doing a tennis movie is truly unbelievable to me. Well, first of all, they don't really exist.
Rob Lowe is a sportsman and a ladykiller and it's impossible to be in a scene with him and not immediately begin to play tennis.
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.
Sometimes when I need to relax, I just watch in the stands how people are enjoying the tennis or what they are eating.
I'm still an obsessive personality, and I still think I'm right, and I still believe my literary balls hang far lower than nearly anyone else's alive.
The first rounds of a tournament are always tricky because playing tennis takes a lot out of you.
Tennis belongs to the individualistic past - a hero, or at most a pair of friends or lovers, against the world.
Because I've had time off, I've learned to appreciate tennis more - to put something back into it.
You always want to win. That is why you play tennis, because you love the sport and try to be the best you can at it.
I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.
In T20, batsmen are always going after you, so a good policy is to bowl five-six dot balls in your first two-three overs so that pressure builds on the batsman, and he plays riskier shots.
It's important to promote tennis in inner city schools so kids in those areas have access to the sport.
People don't ask Andre Agassi, 'You know you're the No. 1 tennis player in the world... have you thought about polo?'
I'm always an entrepreneur, but I'd probably be a teacher. I like teaching kids, whether that's tennis on the courts or history in the classroom.
This woman was so cross-eyed. She can go to a tennis match and never move her head.
I found it very easy to transform into creeps and weirdos and losers and goof-balls, and I'm happy to play eccentric kinds of characters, and I have a great affinity for the outsider, but I definitely am about expanding my range as well.
You got to have two things to win. You got to have brains and you got to have balls. Now you've got too much of one and not enough of the other.
I am faster than other players and I can get to a lot of balls. They have big serves, much power, they can finish points with one or two shots. For me, it's not like that, but I still enjoy matching up to them.
Once you reach a good level in tennis it fills you with a lot of motivation. I hope I can do it for a long time.
As a child, I was lucky to have the support of my parents because starting a tennis career is a very expensive adventure.
I love tennis more than designing because it's actually easier and I don't get nearly as nervous.
I have always considered tennis as a combat in an arena between two gladiators who have their racquets and their courage as their weapons.
It's pretty hard being a tennis player and Mother Theresa at the same time and that's just the way it is.
That's my every day: putting things aside and going out there and have two hours of concentration of tennis.
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.
With everything else that would swirl around me when I got involved in it, tennis was my main concern.
To me, Hewitt and Nadal would be the best spirited fighters I've ever seen on the tennis court.
Whoever has played tennis knows the court is pretty big and you always have space to put the ball in.
My reality was that I would become a tennis player. I never had any doubt about it. It was my life.
I certainly had a lot of fun during my career playing tennis, doing the thing I wanted to do and to do it well.
People think when you're struggling and not winning matches it's because you're not working hard. That's the biggest misnomer in tennis.
There's no home team in tennis, no built-in fan base, so the players have to step up and do their fair share.
When people say that American tennis is dead and things like that, you kind of take it a little personal.
Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.
I love sports. I've played basketball, baseball, soccer, tennis, track and field growing up.
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