Samantha Stosur 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 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.

I've been around tennis, and I have a feeling for the sport. I still play tennis, and I can still do a lot of harm to a lot of people.

Tennis has been a part of my life since I was five years old.

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

When I came to Spain, I joined a tennis academy, and that was where I learnt the game.

Every time I tour, I find a pro - I go to the local tennis center in that country, wherever it is and I play.

I had not picked up a tennis racket in 15 years, so I tried.

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.

My tennis skills are okay.

Tennis is a funny game, and it takes a life-time of keeping one's eyes open on the circuit to have any chance of understanding the strange phenomena that exist in our exciting sport!

I've always loved playing tennis. When I was 12, my parents decided that I should try to do it seriously. My father started to travel with me, and as a family, we tried to make it work.

I'm glad that I can play the tennis that I always wish to play.

At the end of the day, it is a very long year. The tennis season is pretty much ten months of the year.

Tennis is my dream. It is what I love. And it is what I want to be best at.

I passed my Lawn Tennis Association coaching exam, and I persuaded my local club to let me use a court after school and on Saturdays.

I go out there because I love tennis and I love playing. To hold the trophy in the end, you know, it's amazing.

I was in a movie for five minutes where I play tennis and I was given five tennis lessons for free. I never had a tennis lesson. I was like, that's awesome! When else would I have taken up tennis?

I love tennis with a passion. I challenged Boris Becker to a match once and he said he was up for it but he never called back. I bet I could make him run around.

I started tennis around age 2.

I have a passion for playing tennis and enjoy the workload and struggles of performing in this amazing global sport.

The tennis wasn't really very much on my mind, so it wasn't like I was thinking about it all the time.

Well, my mum's been a tennis coach - she coached me till I was 12.

I enjoy hitting tennis balls. I haven't lost any of the innocent parts of tennis. I just do it in front of less people.

No matter what happens, tennis is still tennis: You can see a lot of great matches, a lot of new people.