Grand Slam Tennis Quotes

My first U.S. Open main draw, it was a big stadium and I wasn't really used to it.

Wimbledon is a special place for me in so many ways and I feel privileged to have been such a big part of it over the years.

I won a grand slam with an Audemars Piguet on my wrist, so I feel it is a great match.

It doesn't matter the way you're playing, especially the beginning of a grand slam. It doesn't change anything.

Every match I won in a Grand Slam, I take confidence of that, and when I arrive in a final, I know my game is there.

Yeah, certainly you want to try to save your energy at a Grand Slam.

Wimbledon, for me, is the most important tournament of the year, so you know there's always going to be people expecting me to do well.

I've always said that winning a Grand Slam title is what is most important.

Everybody always talks about the pressure of playing at Wimbledon, how tough it is, but the people watching make it so much easier to play.

Wimbledon is the most prestigious tournament we have, and being able to win it with all the tradition, that's always been a dream of mine.

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.

To win a Grand Slam, you have to win seven matches in a row, and it's very different physically and mentally from other tournaments.

You never know how many times you're going to be able to come out on Rod Laver Arena and just play.

Roland Garros is the only one of the four majors that is 15 days, and that is too long.

I remember when I was younger taking more pride in Wimbledon than the French. That and the U.S. Open - they were the ones I wanted to win.

I think when you're younger and you're watching people play on TV, you always say that you want to be at the French Open - you want to be playing Grand Slams. But then actually being there doing it, it kind of blows you away thinking, Wow, I actually used to think maybe I could do that one day, and now I'm actually doing it.

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

I didn't do anything special after the French Open, after winning the tournament. I just had a nice dinner with my team and family, but I was so exhausted that I went to sleep early and couldn't stay up.

If you want to win a Grand Slam, when you dream, you say, 'I want Serena in the final.'

Winning two Wimbledons is very nice, no matter what.

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

I am glad that Wimbledon is my last slam. I love the atmosphere and courts of SW19, and it is an addiction, which I will find tough to give up.

It would be incredibly special playing at Wimbledon.

I want to play my best tennis at the Grand Slams.

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