Tennis Quotes
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It's crazy how it is. I mean, I go from being not known to, you know, being so known in the tennis world, in Canada in general.
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When I retired from tennis I wanted to do other things with my life.
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When I play, I feel like I'm in a theatre, why should I look ugly then, because I'm a tennis-player?
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If Davis Cup was a little bit less or once every two years, I would be more inclined to play. But the way it is now, it is too much tennis for me.
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With a tennis racket strapped tightly to her hiking pack, Martina Navratilova began her ascent of Mount Kilimanjaro. The tennis legend had visions of celebrating at the summit of Africa's highest peak by hitting a couple balls to see how far they might fly in the thin air at 19,341 feet.
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I grew up on games like Madden and NBA Jam, then moved on to NFL 2K on Dreamcast. The game I really loved was Virtua Tennis.
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I spent a whole year when I was injured just trying to get my arm back to the point where I could hit a tennis ball for more than 30 minutes a day. I'd hit for 15 minutes and it would feel as if my arm was going to fall off.
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I don't do a huge amount of physical activity. I play tennis, I work out sporadically, and I eat well and take care of myself.
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Tennis helped give me an identity and made me feel like somebody.
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When I was 12, every little girl in Russia was trying to wear her hair like mine and playing tennis.
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If you are happy in your private life, and - that will affect your tennis, and that will help you, actually.
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I have to use other things to help my tennis, like my brain. But I believe that, even when your muscles are not so fast, with the brain and with concentration you can compensate.
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Tennis has been around for so long - women have been playing the majors since the 1800s. Other sports have not had professional leagues for women for as long.
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I've got my advanced scuba diving license. I'm playing tennis and exercising. I ride my bike everywhere. I've been finding new things. I've been more creative in music and doing different videos. And just meeting different people and being around and present. I'm wonderful when I'm just on nothing.
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I have always considered tennis as a combat in an arena between two gladiators who have their racquets and their courage as their weapons.
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My tennis skills are okay.
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I walk, and I play tennis, but mainly I watch what I eat. I eat all the things that I love, including cake. Cake is very important to me. But it's all about the size of the slice!
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No matter what happens, tennis is still tennis: You can see a lot of great matches, a lot of new people.
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You don't go home and talk about the great tennis courts that you played, but you do talk about the golf courses you played.
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I have been playing tennis for a very long time. Tennis is my life. I see my life in other places, and there are other challenges for me.
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Tennis doesn't owe me anything. Tennis is one of the fairest sports. It's given me so many extraordinary feelings.
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Tennis doesn't encourage any kind of intellectual development.
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Navigating a nonsober world of restaurants and bars, dinner parties, and benefits is like anything that requires practice. Like tennis or a foreign language, it gets easier the more you do it. But like all beginnings, it can be awkward. You stumble, you worry, and then there are unexpected moments of grace that give you the courage to keep going.
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I did realize more than ever, after the stabbing, that tennis is a business - a tough business.
