I began playing in the Pacific Coast Indoor Tennis Championships.

My mom and dad met at UCLA when he as a captain in the Air Force and she was in her junior year.

My sister and I are opposites in many ways. She is six feet tall, while I'm five feet four.

To meet my goals, I couldn't let up when I was playing tennis.

We've gotta give Richard Williams a lot of credit - to give us two number one champions is a phenomenal feat.

My mind started wandering. I started playing carefully, instead of playing the way that had gotten me to that point. I had to force myself to keep driving the ball.

When I was 11, I won my first nationals at Savannah, defeating Kelly Henry in the finals.

Mary Joe Fernandez rarely has a bad loss. She never tries for stupid shots.

I started tennis around age 2.

Pam has always been my glamorous big sister - 13 years older than I. She played on the women's circuit for nine years and came home to tell me stories of France, Japan.

Venus hasn't been to the semis for a couple of years in a Grand Slam - she's been coming back from injury.

I began playing in the Pacific Coast Indoor Tennis Championships.

Winning that first game was so important; my mother always said that the first game of the second set was the chance to keep it going if you were ahead or change things if you were behind.

I won the Wimbledon mixed doubles title in 1980.

The prize money for first place was $2,800, but I didn't take it because I was still an amateur.

From one match to the next, I kept on winning.

I didn't want to just rally at the baseline, even though that happened a lot.

My brother Jeff is now my agent at Advantage International in Washington, D.C.

I was planning to remain an amateur for a while.

If Davis Cup was a little bit less or once every two years, I would be more inclined to play. But the way it is now, it is too much tennis for me.

I would like to see it go back to the wood racquets. To see the touch put back in tennis.

It's true I always try to be as seductive as possible but I wouldn't be here if I couldn't play tennis.

Golfers are forever working on mechanics. My tennis swing hasn't changed in 10 years.

When I was 12, every little girl in Russia was trying to wear her hair like mine and playing tennis.

What these guys are doing is great for Argentinean tennis. This is motivating other people.

I love to promote our sport. I love grass-roots tennis. I love coaching. I love all parts of the sport. I love the business side.

In tennis, you can make a couple of mistakes and still win. Not in golf. I played three rounds in that Tahoe event, and I was drained. Mentally, not physically.

We are merely the stars tennis-balls, struck and bandied which way please them.

I used to be told if I talked about my sexuality in any way that we wouldn't have a tennis tour.

What I want out of tennis is not necessarily just winning.

I've been playing tennis, and just whatever sport is in front of me I will do.

Tennis and golf are best played, not watched.

Yeah, I think there are many other important things in life, not just tennis.

My father actually moved out from Chicago just so he could play tennis 365 days a year, so it was - it was a place we played every day. We played before school. We played after school. We woke up. We played tennis. We brushed our teeth in that order.

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

No, like I said, my dad was never really part of the tennis. His involvement around what I did with the tennis and with my mom and my grandparents was really not a part of my life.

Safin, in his way, is very talented. It is a joy to watch them play; it is tennis of a very high quality.

To meet my goals, I couldn't let up when I was playing tennis.

Both of us played basketball, and I played tennis and my knees are done. Now if you ask us head-to-head who wins at golf, I'm asking for a couple of strokes.

It was very hard for me to practice and enjoy my tennis, and I didn't know the why, so I worked with psychologists to try and see what was happening. They pushed me really hard.

I used to travel in tennis shoes; I am just not allowed to anymore. I'm an old hippie from San Francisco.

There are a lot of pretty girls. I am a tennis player first of all, that is why I am here, and if wasn't producing results no one would notice me.

I grew up on the tennis court with lots of other kids. There were like 40 kids all afternoon and I was one of the youngest ones, so I always had to chase everybody to keep up.

Tennis has given me soul.

Now I do bowling, golf, and tennis. I want to be a good bowler.

Tennis is a psychological sport, you have to keep a clear head. That is why I stopped playing.

I'm not saying I'm something special. I might play a little better tennis than other people, but it is because I was given the chance, and not many people are.

I am a hero worshiper. I love the number one tennis player. I love the number one baseball player. I want to see those records broken.

A great tennis career is something that a 15-year-old normally doesn't have. I hope my example helps other teens believe they can accomplish things they never thought possible.