Petra Kvitova Quotes

All I want to do is to play my tennis and try to do the best possible on the court.

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

Look at Becker and Djokovic. If you look at Novak's record since Boris has been there, it's been phenomenal.

I moved to Spain, and at all the tournaments I'd play, I would be really good in my age. That made me realize that I could be a pro.

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.

Obviously it's very hard for everybody to be successful in the Grand Slams, so that's why some of the players, they lose, and they should not lose.

I carried through well with my tennis. I got the respect by usage of the tennis racket.

I like playing tennis. I've always enjoyed the process of being a tennis player; I'm just not sure that I enjoyed the travel at the end, and my body didn't recover from the day-to-day grind.

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.

In tennis it's easy to get greedy - and one Grand Slam doesn't feel enough any more.

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.

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 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.

Before I got addicted to comedy, I was seriously thinking about playing tennis full time. I joined the tennis team and played with a lot of professionals.

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

Don't worry about being famous or making money; the most important thing is being the best. You have to become a master of your craft, and everything else will come.

Winning a Grand Slam was something I was chasing the first day I became a coach.

I certainly had a lot of fun during my career playing tennis, doing the thing I wanted to do and to do it well.

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

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

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

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 want to be a top-10 player and I want to win a Grand Slam tournament.

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