Tennis Goals Quotes

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

Being world No 1 would be fantastic but you'd like to do it by finishing the year as No 1 without anything happening off the table to someone else's ranking.

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.

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.

I don't believe in perfect tennis or perfect matches.

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

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

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

My aim over the next few months is that I have a lot of points to defend in Miami and Hamburg, after that I can set my sights on No. 1.

I didn't know I could even be a professional tennis player, honestly. All this is actually very, very unexpected.

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

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.

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

Since I was like eight, I always wanted to be playing pro tennis.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

The most important thing is definitely success on the tennis court. I know that if I win matches, everything else will fall into place, and the money and sponsors will follow.

One day my dad would say, 'OK, if you want to play tennis I can help you out.' And that's how it started. And I had a goal. I wanted to beat my mom first. And my parents and my brother. And that was the ultimate goal.

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.

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

When you play Futures and Challengers for three, four years, you're playing in obscurity. You play the game for other reasons. You don't play the game for money or attention. You play the game because you like to play. You play the game because you enjoy the journey.