Sanford I. Weill Quotes

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.

As a kid, I wanted to be a pro tennis player. I was pretty good; at the tennis academies I attended, I always 'played up' against older age groups.

I moved to Spain, and at all the tournaments I'd play, I would be really good in my age. That made me realize that I could be a pro.

I love tennis with a passion. I challenged Boris Becker to a match once and he said he was up for it but he never called back. I bet I could make him run around.

I've been athletic since I was a kid. My parents got me playing tennis when I was seven years old and I started to play competitively.

I like playing tennis. I've always enjoyed the process of being a tennis player; I'm just not sure that I enjoyed the travel at the end, and my body didn't recover from the day-to-day grind.

When I look back over my career, having an opportunity to compete against really good players like Lester Hayes are some of the highlights.

I think that tennis has been in a place for many years without any change. Davis Cup and Fed Cup has always been a very exciting platform for players because it is such an individual sport, and we get to play a team competition. We love being part of a team.

Well, my mum's been a tennis coach - she coached me till I was 12.

Tennis is a funny game, and it takes a life-time of keeping one's eyes open on the circuit to have any chance of understanding the strange phenomena that exist in our exciting sport!

No matter what happens, tennis is still tennis: You can see a lot of great matches, a lot of new people.

It is never too late to get into tennis! While I started playing at the age of 8 when my parents gave me a tennis racquet for Christmas, tennis is a lifelong sport that can be enjoyed by people of almost any age. It's also something you never forget once you learn.

Before I got addicted to comedy, I was seriously thinking about playing tennis full time. I joined the tennis team and played with a lot of professionals.

When I was a kid in Adelaide, I dreamed of becoming No. 1 in the world, winning a grand slam and the Davis Cup for Australia.

I played professional tennis for about six years and I played football and handball in school as well.

Tennis has been a part of my life since I was five years old.

The most important thing is definitely success on the tennis court. I know that if I win matches, everything else will fall into place, and the money and sponsors will follow.

All I want to do is to play my tennis and try to do the best possible on the court.

Tennis is my dream. It is what I love. And it is what I want to be best at.

I never thought I was going to make a career out of tennis, to be honest, until I was 10 or 11 years old. One of my earliest memories is when I was seven, and I was competing against players that were three, four years older than me. I didn't take it too seriously at the time. I was having a lot of fun.

My priority is always playing tennis and practising and doing my schedule with my tennis.

I had Lana and she was the number one player on my team

The NFL, boxing, jiu-jitsu - I did that. I'm proven at what I can do.

At the end of the day, it is a very long year. The tennis season is pretty much ten months of the year.

It's very frustrating when you don't always get the right kind of rub - you watch tennis and know if you play better than the other guy, you win. But that's the game we play. It can create mini-upsets.