Ashleigh Barty Quotes

If I'm going to be out there, I want to be in the top 10 and really have a chance of winning a Grand Slam.

That $27,000 that a young player will now get just for making the main draw at the Australian Open is huge. It can set them up for a couple of months which at that level you really do need that kind of help. It sounds like a lot of money, but when you're travelling the world trying to make it as a tennis player, it doesn't last long.

For Nirvana, putting out their first major-label record was like getting into a new car. But the runaway success was like suddenly discovering that the car was a Ferrari and the accelerator pedal was Krazy Glued to the floorboard.

If I was to win the U.S. Open or something, I won't play again for the rest of the year.

If you get into the main draw of a Grand Slam, then you've made your mark and proved that's where you belong.

Of course, I want to win a Grand Slam.

I got to one Grand Slam final, and that's what you shoot for as a player.

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

The fame of an actor is won in minutes and seconds, not in years.

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

You can be known or be a star from anywhere - anywhere in the world.

Most of the girls who were better than me went to college or quit tennis. It's interesting to see who stuck around. It's pretty crazy to see who was good in juniors, who tried going pro. A lot of people fall off and it's really that difficult to get to each level.

The main thing for me was when I won my first title in Kuala Lumpur. That was the biggest step that I made. I made the Top 100, and I've stayed there ever since.

Free got famous fast, and it was a shock. You're working towards it, and when you suddenly get it with bells on, it is a bit much. I don't know how well I dealt with it.

I think tennis is very different than most of the other sports when you have the opportunity to go pro. For me, it was pretty simple. Tennis was always an individual sport, and your direct results determined where you could go and what you could do.

I can't take the subway anymore. I think I can still take the bus, though. It's a double-edged sword because I'm grateful that people recognize and support me, but there are definite downsides to that.

It doesn't really matter who I turn pro with. What matters is where I take my tennis.

In the countries where they don't know me, which is only America, wherever I go, the hotel, the restaurant, the airport, people go, 'Oh, my! What's that?' That's good. That's good, because there is a curiosity there, which is great.

You have to imagine you write a show about a sponge and you think that maybe a few people will think it is funny, some college students, but it takes off. It is truly shocking - to the point where it is bizarre.

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

People aren't winning Slams at 21 anymore. It's later.

I was playing 25Ks in Japan, and now I'm the... champion of Indian Wells. It's crazy.

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

I hate fame. I hate being recognized, because I don't know how to talk to people.

I never expected to be in the papers. I personally never expected to be in the papers. The height of my ambition for these books was, well frankly, to get reviewed. A lot of children's books don't even get reviewed.. forget good review, bad review. Personally, no, I never expected to be in the papers so it's an odd experience when it happens to you .