I tried all kinds of sports when I was a kid, like soccer and tennis and golf, and, in fact, started skating to be able to play hockey.
Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
Every day two million Americans play tennis and one million of them lose.
Ivan Lendl's never going to be a great player on grass. The only time he comes to the net is to shake your hand.
I'm amazed that years after I stopped playing tennis, people still recognize me in restaurants and ask for my autograph.
[On a strained relationship between a tennis champion and her mother:] There comes a time when it's probably not cool for your mom to be your best friend.
Wimbledon attracted Bill Clinton to the gallery at Centre Court Tuesday at the All England Club. NBC cameras showed his head turning back and forth with each volley. Even at a tennis match, it looks like he's denying everything.
I love tennis. Without it I don't know what I would do.
When I was younger, I was a robot. Wind her up and she plays tennis.
I'm as patient a father as I am on the tennis court. It takes a lot for me to get really upset, but sometimes kids can get you really cross if they really keep bugging you.
They were adored by the Germans, who thought they were exactly what Englishmen ought to be. They made war look stylish and reasonable, and fun. . . They were dressed half for battle, half for tennis or croquet.
Tennis is physical chess.
I don't think tennis is a glamour game, not at all.
My motto is: I'm alive, so that means I can do anything.
You have to find it. No one else can find it for you.
I was a very good tennis player in Ottawa, Canada - nationally ranked when I was, like, 13. Then I moved to Los Angeles when I was 15, and everyone in L. A. just killed me. I was pretty great in Canada. Not so much in Los Angeles.
I'm a perfectionist. I'm pretty much insatiable. I feel there's so many things I can improve on.
Even though now I'm pretty popular in my country and tennis is the No. 1 sport, and I'm very flattered that the people recognise me and come up and give me compliments, I'm more a person who likes to have privacy and peace.
I am always working out, whether I am on vacation or at home. When in La Jolla, I like to surf, play tennis, and golf - but surfing is definitely my favorite.
I'm a terrible musician. While the band members are great, I'm tolerated and affectionately regarded because I do movies, but if I had to make my living as a musician I would starve. I'm like a Sunday tennis player.