Even though there are a lot of bright tennis players out there, you still have to protect yourself and save all your mental and emotional energies for tennis. Chris Evert
I really try not to read the tennis articles, because a lot of times they're guessing at how a player is feeling, and I like to keep myself kind of open minded about how I'm feeling, rather than have someone else explain to me what's going on. Jim Courier
In the history of women's tennis the great players have come back from long absences with no problems. Lindsay Davenport
In the tennis world, there weren't a whole lot of Asians playing. You see it a little bit more now. The same can really be said for basketball. Michael Chang
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. Chris Evert
'Oh and Oh' is a tennis term... It's a nice way of saying you took your opponent to pieces. Venus Williams
As a child, I wanted to be an athlete, a professional tennis player or something like that. Jonathan Ames
Back in East St. Louis, tennis wasn't the real thing. If you weren't playing baseball, basketball, football, you were kind of on the outside.Jimmy Connors
Before, I would play a little hoops, a little tennis. Now it's more yoga, Pilates, stretching, some light weight work, push-ups, sit-ups, resistance things. When I used to live on the eleventh floor, I would take the steps. I don't do that so much now. I'm taking the elevator a bit more these days. Robin Roberts
But, I would say when I was four years old and I was at the Alan King Tennis Tournament and I was hitting with all the pros that would come to town. They would get me on the court or take notice and that stayed with me. Andre Agassi
Ever since that day when I was 11 years old, and I wasn't allowed in a photo because I wasn't wearing a tennis skirt, I knew that I wanted to change the sport. Billie Jean King
Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.Venus Williams
Family's first, and that's what matters most. We realize that our love goes deeper than the tennis game. Serena Williams