Sex doesn't interfere with your tennis; it's staying out all night trying to find it that affects your tennis.
You can't live in someone else's shoes; you've got to branch out and fill your own shoes.
I'm a sneakerhead. I probably have a couple hundred pair of shoes. I got all sorts of shoes.
There is an element of seduction in shoes that doesn't exist for men. A woman can be sexy, charming, witty or shy with her shoes.
Women's tennis? I think it stinks. They hit the ball back and forth, have a lot of nice volleys, and you can see some pretty legs. But it's night and day compared to men's tennis.
I got my first tennis racket on my seventh birthday. And because we had a tennis court in our backyard, I played every day. By ten I was playing competitively.
I play tennis for a living even though I hate tennis, hate it with a dark and secret passion and always have.
No matter what, I always have expensive designer shoes. It's all about the shoes for me.
My shoes were on Oprah but they ran out of time so I wasn't on. I left my shoes in Chicago so they could put them on the show.
When I got older, I wanted to have shoes that no one else had, so I started to choose different shoes; then it followed to my clothes.
Tennis doesn't owe me anything. Tennis is one of the fairest sports. It's given me so many extraordinary feelings.
Rick Rubin is interesting. He doesn't wear shoes, I think? No wait, he wears shoes.
I always ran very fast and jumped very high but when I was about thirteen it was more of a choice between football and tennis, and I went for tennis.
Not every woman is obsessed with shoes. But every woman is more obsessed with shoes than her husband is (although that's not too difficult to accomplish, since your husband has exactly two pairs--black shoes that are ten years old and barely broken in and sneakers that are so dirty they classify as a biohazard).
I've never worked in a retail store, but I did sell shoes at Gimme Shoes in San Francisco, a job I was fired from.
It makes you also realize, 'OK, I'm excited to play tennis, and I work really hard to be the best tennis player I think I can be,' but I don't waste my time on stupid stuff, you know what I mean.
My mom was a great tennis player, and I remember being six or seven years old watching Steffi Graf and Monica Seles in Wimbledon in my house. I've always been a tennis fan.
The one thing you have to do if you write a book is put yourself in someone else's shoes. The reader's shoes. You've got to entertain them.
For me the most important thing has always been tennis, and that's what I want to get across the image I want to portray is a hard-working tennis player.
They went into my closets looking for skeletons, but thank God all they found were shoes, beautiful shoes.
Serena's always been one of the best, and she will forever be one of the best tennis players in women's tennis.
Shoes for men are about elegance or wealth, they are not playing with the inner character. That is why women are happy to wear painful shoes.
I've always liked shoes. I peep everybody's shoes out to see what they're rocking.
You have two categories of Shoes, Shoes which are dressing a woman or Shoes which are undressing a Woman
I love Italy, and that's where I make my own shoes. But the French really do respect designers. Italy is totally different; footwear is an industry. The shoes are all about craft and luxury. French shoes are more about straight lines, and they are way more geometric.
With tennis, if you're very good at a young age, you don't even go to your prom. You're down at some tennis academy in Florida where you're on the court 8 hours a day. It's brutal.
Tennis is the purest form of democracy. There was a symbiotic, chicken-and-egg relationship for me between democracy and tennis.
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.
Once I caught my dad in front of the TV watching a tennis match, and I realized they were tricking us. Poor guy, he had to sneak in a tennis final - probably the French Open.
One time, I got to go play with lion cubs in Johannesburg. It was amazing. But it's difficult when you're on the road. We're always playing tennis, and there's a lot of pressure. So sometimes you don't get to do the things you'd like to do, because the priority is tennis.
A lot of the players are very complimentary about each other; they embrace at the end of matches because the level of the tennis has been so good. I think that's something that tennis has got to be proud of.
Religion is like a pair of shoes.....Find one that fits for you, but don't make me wear your shoes.
I knew I was the second-best tennis player in the state of Florida and No. 8 in the United States of America when I was 12 years old and I couldn't tell you what I was in baseball, but I liked my chances in tennis of getting a scholarship to college.
I have fun playing tennis and I understand that the good things from tennis go hand in hand with attention. But it's not important to me.
I'm a girl who loves shoes. There is nothing like the feeling of trying on shoes at the store and they fit perfectly.
I really feel like I'm improving every day, not just as a tennis player but as a person and really becoming more mature in this big sport of tennis.
No matter what happens, tennis is still tennis: You can see a lot of great matches, a lot of new people.
The kids know what I'm doing when I exercise, and that's powerful. So don't just tell your kids to go play outside. Take a moment off your computer, put on your tennis shoes, hop outside and help them start their game and run off some energy.
Acting with Denzel is like playing tennis with someone that's better than you. You either play better tennis or get blown off the court.
In Argentina at various tournaments, it's great. Every day it's full, everybody's crazy about tennis, everybody wants to play tennis.
Since I was a kid, I've wanted to do sports for a living. In the beginning, I played a lot of soccer, but in the end I chose tennis. I love sports in general ... But tennis is my passion.
I do spend quite a bit on shoes, I've a pair of Swarovski crystal Louboutin shoes, I can never wear them but they look amazing.
I love tennis. But even if I become the greatest of all time, I still don't only want to be defined by tennis. I'm my own person. And I want to be remembered as I really am.
Tennis, imprisoned within fixed boundaries, a patch of an acre, a green rectangle, tries the human soul. A tennis court is like a coffin, only larger.
Tennis is such an individual and competitive sport, but it is great being part of a team and getting to know the girls outside of tennis - even though we are all competing for the same thing!
It's important for the young players to practice other ball games as well, basketball or table tennis. On the tennis court, you can improve your eye through a kind of overexertion.
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 Olympics is not for tennis and tennis does not need the Olympics. It is not my goal in life to win a gold medal.
My family belongs to a tennis club in Valencia, California, so I always go there. I play a lot of tennis with my dad and swim. And I like to go to the gym there.
They went into my closets looking for skeletons, but thank God, all they found were shoes, beautiful shoes.
The most challenging thing is people do see me as a tennis player, but I've had a lot of opportunities because I am a tennis player. And I don't mind that.
Coming from a country that loves tennis, actually, there are a lot of people who play. We definitely face a lot of challenges when it comes to producing tennis players.
I haven't been in tennis for that long, but what I can say is that we have a lot of young guys at the top who are willing to do a lot of good things for tennis in general.
It's easy to be a movie star. The shoes are already there. They just put you in the shoes.
I know China are very good in table tennis. Let me see what happens in tennis. I am pretty happy with the way I am playing.
No athletes talk to themselves like tennis players. Pitchers, golfers, goalkeepers, they mutter to themselves, but tennis players talk to themselves-and answer. Tennis players look like lunatics in a public square.
I love shoes. I am a shoe fanatic. I have a special closet in my home just for my shoes.
I started out with a tennis racquet. Later, during one of the breaks we got from tennis, I started playing football with my friends. I was only five years old.
I was more than happy to not wear shoes. The only time we wore shoes was on Sunday when we went to church.
We are not for making shoes, so the shoemakers can have jobs, but so we can wear the shoes.
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