Chi Chi Rodriguez Quotes

My serve can get better, for sure. It's not just about serving bombs, but positioning, variation in speed, in spin.

The serve, I think, is the most difficult, you know, in terms of coordination, because you got the two arms going, and you got to toss it up at the right time so.

I used to play a lot of racket sports, tennis and squash.

I think I have a lot of room for improvement. My serve is okay, but I need to work on a lot of things: return, transition game, backhand.

Whoever has played tennis knows the court is pretty big and you always have space to put the ball in.

I love tennis, but I just don't like grass.

When I can control the ball off the first shot after serve and return, especially with my forehand, that's when I'm in control most matches.

I don't have the same serve speed as some of the guys, but I have good footwork, and I take the ball early.

The taller you are, the bigger your serve.

Soccer can be very subtle; it's a very nuanced sport. If I happen to make things easy and people don't see it, that could be a reason why someone might stand out more than I do. But that's just the way I've grown up playing the game.

In college and high school, you're always taught to hit the ball on the ground and on a line.

You create shots for yourself by what you do without the ball more than what you do after you get it

I wouldn’t say I’m a ball hog. I’m a shooter. I don’t necessarily hog the ball, but I put them up though. I definitely much rather shoot it than pass it. That’s just how I am.

Duffers who consistently shank their balls are urged to buy and study Shanks - No Thanks by R.K. Hoffman, or in extreme cases, M.S. Howard's excellent Tennis for Beginners.

When you control the ball you control the score

My leg was made for kicking things. Doesn't matter the circumstance, style or formation. It's all about putting your foot on the right spot of the ball and letting your leg velocity do the rest.

Roscoe Tanner seems to have found a way of making his service go even faster, so that the ball is now quite invisible, like Stealth, the American supersonic bomber which nobody has ever seen.

When you get into competition and get under pressure, and get over that ball and are looking at it, and know you have to hit it, it is having that system to depend on to get that ball to where you want it to be.

But you don't have to go up in the stands and play your foul balls. I do.

Football's always easier when you've got the ball.

You can win tournaments when you're mechanical, but golf is a game of emotion and adjustment. If you're not aware of what's happening to your mind and your body when you're playing, you'll never be able to be the very best you can be.

I didn't teach you that. Catch the ball with your glove.

It's about hitting the ball in the center of the club face and hitting it hard.

I never used golf as a job. I used it as a game. I always thought if I played the game well, my financial rewards would be there, but it came from, because I played well. But I had to play well to get the financial rewards.

I have finally mastered what to do with the second tennis ball. Having small hands, I was becoming terribly self-conscious about keeping it in a can in the car while I served the first one. I noted some women tucked the second ball just inside the elastic leg of their tennis panties. I tried, but found the space already occupied by a leg. Now, I simply drop the second ball down my cleavage, giving me a chest that often stuns my opponent throughout an entire set.