Sofia Vassilieva Quotes

I love yoga. I can practice it wherever I am, at home, in my hotel room... I like playing tennis, too, but that's more of a hobby because I'm not very good!

When I was young, I liked to spend hours and hours on the practice court.

I don't think I was that bad when I was on the court. I felt like it could have just got better if I had more time on there.

I was terrible when I first started skating and was clinging onto the side for dear life, but it's something I'll always have now, and the tour is always so much fun.

You try to figure out the best way to throw the shot put, or the perfect way to long jump, and you don't ever get it. You just chip away, chip away, chip away as time goes on.

This Martina Navratilova is a real champion, but with the proper training, I can make miracles happen.

I play duplicate bridge and I play golf and I go swimming once in a while.

For a while, I was all sports all the time. Then, as I started to get into theater, they dropped away, but I hung on tight with a highly competitive Ultimate Frisbee team. It was probably less intense than I remember, but it was fun.

My dad and my brother were more keen on football, but I used to play canvas-ball cricket while at school in Ranchi, and we would have cricket coaching camps in the summer vacations. That's how I started.

When I was a kid, I was really curious about acting. And I was interested in movement and dance. I wasn't good at either of those things - I didn't work at those things.

I love learning things, whether it's a language or Philippine knife-fighting or the Viennese waltz.

I did ballet, piano and all that - my brother did martial arts, my passion.

I love camping out, I love teaching tennis.

I have always been into all kinds of sports, and have blended acting with sports.

While I was playing football in the U.S., I learnt to play the guitar, and I'm picking it up again now.

Tap dancing and basketball started at the same time, and when I was eight, I just kind of made the decision that entertainment was really where I wanted to be.

I definitely still work on my skating a lot.

I wanted to give back to football what it's given me. So, I decided, 'I'm going to be a coach.'

In my free time, I love to catch up with tennis, swimming, travelling, and chess.

Playing sports is a craft that has to be worked on and perfected just like anything else.

Schools are really, really important. It gives you access to every kid in the country. It gives you a massive pool of people to see who might be talented at different sports. It allows kids to try sports. Kids can be inspired all they want, but if they can't go out and try a sport, then it's no good.

Tennis is great, but it doesn't necessarily define me.

I just like playing ball.

I love to have my football camps. I love being a part of that.

I do a lot of dance classes in my spare time. I'm a dancer at heart.