Carrot Top Quotes

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 played tennis when I was younger. I don't know if I could have been a professional, but I am still passionate about it.

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.

I always wanted to be a professional player, but when I started playing well in Challengers and, for the first time, I did well at ATP tournaments, I saw that these guys are also beatable.

Look at Becker and Djokovic. If you look at Novak's record since Boris has been there, it's been phenomenal.

Since I was like eight, I always wanted to be playing pro tennis.

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.

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'm not the next Kournikova-I want to win matches!

I carried through well with my tennis. I got the respect by usage of the tennis racket.

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.

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.

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.

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.

And it was where I learned how to play tennis and eventually became captain of the tennis team at the school and was on the Junior Davis Cup in New York City.

I once played amateur tournament tennis six months without double-faulting.

When you play Futures and Challengers for three, four years, you're playing in obscurity. You play the game for other reasons. You don't play the game for money or attention. You play the game because you like to play. You play the game because you enjoy the journey.

I started in a very small tennis club in a South American country where I never thought about becoming the best tennis player.

That's the ultimate goal - to try to go deep into the Australian Open and deep into the other slams throughout the year.

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

I did interviews with tennis greats, like James Blake and John Isner. I also interviewed tennis pros who aren't well - known but who made all the same sacrifices but had just a little spark of a professional career and are now still orbiting the sport, either as a teaching pro or a coach.

I want to be a top-10 player and I want to win a Grand Slam tournament.

I knew I was going to play pro tennis when I was 12.

Before I started playing more on the WTA tour, I actually won most of my Challengers on the clay, especially at the very beginning.

Who wouldn't want to practice with the No. 1 player in the world?