I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis.
Sally Ride

I was in the tennis bubble. I wasn't thinking about the big picture. I didn't notice what they said on television, I wasn't reading any papers. I had a coach and a manager, and they kept me in the bubble.
Boris Becker

I was very lucky in as much as I played a lot of tennis.
Dabney Coleman

I was very, very shy as a younger girl, just petrified of people. Tennis helped give me an identity and made me feel like somebody.
Chris Evert

I would like to see it go back to the wood racquets. To see the touch put back in tennis.
Jana Novotna

I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
Robert Frost

I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.
Venus Williams

I'd like to think I could have and should have won more, but that's not the point. And I was at the point where I was playing great tennis in the mid 80s - the type of tennis people hadn't seen before - and I was very proud of that.
John McEnroe

I'm going to have to pick my shots and play great tennis.
Andre Agassi

I'm not saying I'm something special. I might play a little better tennis than other people, but it is because I was given the chance, and not many people are.
Martina Hingis

I'm really trying to focus myself on playing tennis, and I think that's really important.
Stefan Edberg

I've been playing against older and stronger competition my whole life. It has made me a better tennis player and able to play against this kind of level despite their strength and experience.
Maria Sharapova

I've been playing tennis, and just whatever sport is in front of me I will do.
Jeanne Tripplehorn

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.
Pete Sampras

If you can keep playing tennis when somebody is shooting a gun down the street, that's concentration.
Serena Williams

If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life.
Chris Evert

In corporate levels, it's all about tailoring your shirt and which tennis club you belong to and which watch you are wearing and what did you shoot last week?
Ron Livingston

In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to.
Pat Summerall

In Hollywood people lie to each other and cheat each other and then go and play tennis. But I don't want to be a tennis player.
David Geffen

In tennis, you can make a couple of mistakes and still win. Not in golf. I played three rounds in that Tahoe event, and I was drained. Mentally, not physically.
Pete Sampras