Frances Tiafoe Quotes

I'm trying to enjoy my lie as much as I can and I know that tennis hopefully is going to be my life the next 10, 15 years.

I'm not the savior of men's tennis in America. I'm just a kid trying to win a few matches.

I did always dream of being a professional player. I think every kid does dream of being a pro, but to last the journey you have to love tennis as a sport and if you are lucky enough to make it in the pros, it is really a bonus.

My goal isn't to be a top junior. It's to be a top pro.

The Olympics is not for tennis and tennis does not need the Olympics. It is not my goal in life to win a gold medal.

Tennis has given me this wonderful life and I'm very grateful for it.

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

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.

That top 100 is a big barrier that every tennis player strives to break into.

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

I was lucky enough to win the Davis Cup in my first year in 1999. I won my first slam at the U.S. Open in 2001 and became world No. 1 later that year. By the age of 20, I'd done it all.

I'm not going to be a ten or twelve grand-slam winner. It's not going to happen.

In tennis, a lot of parents are accused of driving their kids into tennis. I would say I'm the opposite: I drove my parents into it. They didn't take it that seriously until I was about 11 or 12 years old, when they realised I had an opportunity to go pro.

Playing in a main draw Grand Slam is something you dream about as a kid.

I definitely think about lifting the big trophies, and I dream about winning slams or making it.

To be in the top 10 for the first time, it's like a dream. When you start to play tennis, it's something you think about.

I think the first step is definitely Top 5. From there, you can sort of see the end, and that's the top. In order to do that, you need to win Slams and big tournaments. That's just proven. There is no other way.

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.

I was getting, at like 18, 'Why haven't you won a Grand Slam yet?'

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.

It wasn't until people started asking me what my plans were for the future - if I would go to college or go pro - that it really hit me what I wanted to do. I decided I wanted to go pro and try to be in Wimbledon.

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

Hopefully I can just have another terrible year with only the one Grand Slam and that will be just fine.

Some people are very ambitious and plan their whole careers, but I am not that kind of a person.

There are not a lot of people in the world that get to say they get to walk through the gates of Wimbledon and play on Centre Court. It's pretty phenomenal, and we're very lucky to live this life that we do.