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I carried through well with my tennis. I got the respect by usage of the tennis racket. GABRIELA SABATINI
Summer I was 13, my grandfather and my father taught me how to play golf. I took lessons that summer... THOMAS GIBSON I had not picked up a tennis racket in 15 years, so I tried.
MATTHEW ASHFORD I wasn't even playing tennis (when I first saw Seles). I was always watching (Seles) on TV with my d...
JELENA JANKOVIC Basically I started playing double handed on both my forehand and backhand side because my first rac...
BJORN BORG
My father had never watched tennis, never liked tennis too much. He said, 'OK, we buy a racket, ... NOVAK DJOKOVIC
My best tennis at my peak was when I played a lot of matches. JOHN MCENROE He played tennis, so I played tennis, too. I had a bit of an aptitude for it, so it was kind of fun.
RICHIE REDFERN
The only thing I had on my mind was tennis, and sometimes girls, BORIS BECKER
To meet my goals, I couldn't let up when I was playing tennis. TRACY AUSTIN
The only thing I had on my mind was tennis, and sometimes girls, ... My life was all about tennis. M... BORIS BECKER I thought I was going to be a tennis player when I was a boy. I had a coach and everything and playe...
ADOLFO CAMBIASO
I let my racket do the talking. That's what I am all about, really. I just go out and win tennis mat... PETE SAMPRAS
As soon as I step on the court I just try to play tennis and don't find excuses. You know, I just lo... GORAN IVANISEVIC
I used to play a lot of racket sports, tennis and squash. JASON STATHAM It was obviously our first meet. We didn't play very good tennis and it showed. We really need to pr...
BASIL MIKE I think I've always had a decent perspective on wins and losses on the tennis court.
ANDY RODDICK I thought Jasper competed very well. And I thought we did OK. With sectional starting (today), we ne...
RICK MILLER I played tennis and softball, and we had horses, growing up.
BETH RIESGRAF
I let my racket do the talking. That's what I am all about, really. I just go out and win tennis... PETE SAMPRAS My first taste of it was 9 years of age. Obviously, (I dealt with it) the day I was born because of ...
LENNY SIMPSON There's no doubt I played my best tennis in the fifth set,
LLEYTON HEWITT I started sailing because I had to stop playing tennis so much, as I had bad knees.
HANNAH MILLS
All my life I'd woken up to tennis, tennis, tennis. Even if I don't go to practise, I'm ... SERENA WILLIAMS Every time I go out onto a tennis court, I know what to expect.
CAROLINE WOZNIACKI For our first time out, I thought we played some good tennis. We played hard and came up short on th...
DANA TRUMM I am working on every aspect of of my game, on moving forward, on my transition game. Also a very im...
JELENA JANKOVIC I just picked them up and started playing every day for hours against the garage. I just couldn't st...
CLAUDIA HIRT I played solid tennis in the first set, but was half-a-step too cautious in the second.
PRAKASH AMRITRAJ If I was the type of person who had tennis, tennis, tennis all the time and I went to bed and ended ...
MARAT SAFIN
I'm only superstitious on the tennis court. RAFAEL NADAL I'm more in that Rafa Nadal high-energy high-octane mold out there. I wear that emotion on the c...
LLEYTON HEWITT
I used to play a lot of tennis and then, next thing you know, same thing with tennis. That banging o... CAITLYN JENNER This is the best win so far in my career. Beating the world number four gives me a lot of confidence...
KATARINA SREBOTNIK When I was 12, every little girl in Russia was trying to wear her hair like mine and playing tennis.
ANNA KOURNIKOVA
Actually this summer, I played great tennis. I'm very happy with my game. MARTINA NAVRATILOVA I was not far from my best tennis today. I'm really happy with my win and with the way I got it.
ARNAUD CLEMENT It was different when I was young, aged 20, playing the French Open. I didn't have so much exper...
ANA IVANOVIC
A tennis racket lurks in my earliest memories like a sick relative who had come to live with us. Whe... DOUGLAS BRUNT I think Courtney Owens, for never playing a tennis match a day in her life other than what she's pla...
MARIANNE BRETSCHNEIDER My mom played tennis for, like, six hours a day and went to college on a tennis scholarship, because...
DAKOTA FANNING I was very lucky in as much as I played a lot of tennis.
DABNEY COLEMAN
I've almost skated there every day and I've never seen people playing tennis. BEN BROWN
The biggest impact on my game was breaking her in the second game [of the third set], ... I played a... LINDSAY DAVENPORT I'm just in my own world and playing great tennis. I think it's one of the best matches of my life.
MARCOS BAGHDATIS I got picked on a lot. I was a complete geek in school. I had braces. I didn't have the hot girl...
JOSH BROLIN Earlier in my career, I used to spend a lot of time practising my tennis on court. Now I've lear...
ANDY MURRAY So my parents, particularly my mother, she noticed that I seemed to be interested, so on my seventh ...
HERBIE HANCOCK I went home and got a tennis ball and started tossing it against a wall in my back yard to catch the...
ADRIAN GONZALEZ I started playing tennis in my freshman year, it's really exciting and I am happy to help out these ...
COURTNEY JONES
Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck. VENUS WILLIAMS I know my serve stinks, but I was a pretty good tennis player.
GEORGE H. W. BUSH I felt very good and confident on the court. I really like playing here and I am happy with my level...
DAVID SANCHEZ My calendar here is full. I have two or three things every day. Softball, swimming, tennis, basketba...
DOUG SPRINGER
I was just another long-haired teenage kid with visions of grandeur, strumming a tennis racket or a ... JON BON JOVI I'm amazed that years after I stopped playing tennis, people still recognize me in restaurants a...
BJORN BORG
Tennis has had a very positive impact on my life. GABRIELA SABATINI
If they had rankings in baseball, maybe I would have been able to do the math and figure out my chan... JIM COURIER
I don't really know why I started playing as a kid, but I grew up in Queens, New York, not too f... JOHN MCENROE The timing couldn't have been worse, basically, ... I was playing the best tennis of my life. I was ...
ALICIA MOLIK I knew I had to play my tennis -- hit the ball hard and not let her in the game.
KAROLINA SPREM I played junior varsity for a couple of years, ... but when I played my first varsity match this sea...
JEFF WHITE I have a TV Soap Boomerang award, and I always start my year with the Australian Open tennis! Tennis...
DOUG DAVIDSON I think it's one of the best matches I've played. I think we both had fun and were enjoying it. ... ...
PARADORN SRICHAPHAN It's finally great to put together two really great sets. I think that's the first time I've done th...
DARRIN COHEN [In my youth], I played a little soccer but I think because of my height and my friends I got involv...
FABRICIO OBERTO This was the first time that any of my players from Nos. 3 through No. 6 have ever played tennis. So...
DIANNE BARNES At the very beginning of my career, when I opened my business in Italy, I was also a ranked tennis p...
OLEG CASSINI I feel that I've improved in every facet of my game and am finally able to play my own style of tenn...
SHINOBU ASAGOE Rafael is an unbelievable player. I think he somehow brings out the best in me, because I played som...
JAMES BLAKE My favorite tennis player, who I'm amazed by, is Roger Federer.
DOUG DAVIDSON
A more expensive tennis racket will not make you a better player. UNKNOWN I'm not going to lie, I'm slightly rusty. Every other year I've been able to come out of our section...
KATIE RIDDELL I know China are very good in table tennis. Let me see what happens in tennis. I am pretty happy wit...
ANASTASIA MYSKINA High-school tennis, it was fun, ... but I got more into USTA tournaments because that's what college...
JEFF HAMMOND
You don't need to know who's playing on the White House tennis court to be a good president. JAMES BAKER This feels so good because doctors said I might not be as good as I used to be. But I'm playing the ...
ANNIE HOUGHTON
Since I loathe the tedium of gym workouts, I take breaks for tennis with my eclectic group of tennis... ERIK LARSON
It was like bulls banging heads. He brought out the best and the worst in me and I like to think I d... JIMMY CONNORS It's the biggest moment in my life in tennis so far. I got a little too nervous but I managed to com...
ANDY MURRAY Tennis players need to be very focused and very intense, and I can show tennis players are not just ...
TOMAS BERDYCH I think it was like playing somebody in tennis who's a little better than you. You get better just b...
AL COATES I enjoyed the position I was in as a tennis player. I was to blame when I lost. I was to blame when ...
ROGER FEDERER
Every single thing she does motivates me. I guess not every single thing, but at least on the tennis... VENUS WILLIAMS When I had my first gig, I was 18 in January in 2007. My first gig that I got paid, I was playing fo...
AFROJACK I did a really good job of sticking to the tennis court.
BRAD GILBERT I believe that one version of the good in life can be defined by the moments I sometimes had playing...
ATUL GAWANDE
I want my tennis to speak for everything. MARIA SHARAPOVA I got my first pilot lessons for my 16th birthday, ... I was scared the first time I tried it, but I...
ERIC HOFFMAN I played at the age of seven with my parents. I was a member of the American Heritage High School te...
ANDREW COSTIN I grew up in Europe, and soccer was the first organized game I played. When we moved back to the U.S...
ANDREW LUCK To me, anyone with an Australian accent wielding a tennis racket is cool.
ADRIAN SMITH
Tennis was never work for me, tennis was fun. And the tougher the battle and the longer the match, t... JIMMY CONNORS
Seven years into writing a novel, I started to lose my mind. My thirty-seventh birthday had just com... AKHIL SHARMA There will be some great tennis matches in this tournament. Anyone who enjoys hard-fought tennis mat...
HELEN SOASH
I didn't play organized football until I was in the seventh grade. Up until that point, I only p... PEYTON MANNING
It is never too late to get into tennis! While I started playing at the age of 8 when my parents gav... SAMANTHA STOSUR
I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me a ba... JACKSON BROWNE Our boys played all-business tennis in singles today.
LAWRENCE EYRE
The most challenging thing is people do see me as a tennis player, but I've had a lot of opportu... VENUS WILLIAMS
