I was being groomed to be a tennis player for sure. My grandparents and parents realised I had a natural athletic ability and if I was forced to do it, I could probably do well. But all I wanted was to play pretend.

If you look at tennis, the girls have become much more attractive; they wear makeup. In my generation, you were a tennis player. It wasn't like you had to look a certain way.

My favorite tennis player, who I'm amazed by, is Roger Federer.

I think in the lifetime of a tennis player there are many times where you feel that tremendous confidence.

To be a professional tennis player you need to put in these sort of hours.

It's that I have a good personality and am a good tennis player.

I enjoyed the position I was in as a tennis player. I was to blame when I lost. I was to blame when I won. And I really like that, because I played soccer a lot too, and I couldn't stand it when I had to blame it on the goalkeeper.

I feel like a lot of times we're put in a box that people always say: 'Oh, sports and politics should stay separate and all this.' And I say, yes, but also at the same time, I'm a human first before I'm a tennis player.

People know me. I'm not going to produce any cartwheels out there. I'm not going to belong on Comedy Central. I'll always be a tennis player, not a celebrity.

Spending time in airports and planes is probably my least favourite part of being a tennis player.

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.

There's a lot of ingredients go into being a good tennis player.

I'd much rather people knew me as a good tennis player than as an aboriginal who happens to play good tennis. Of course I'm proud of my race, but I don't want to be thinking about it all the time.

I've been playing against older and stronger competition my whole life. It has made me a better tennis player and able to play against this kind of level despite their strength and experience.

I just want to kind of go with who I am, try to do less of stupid things that don't help me as a person and tennis player.

Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.

I played tennis. My older brother, Joseph, was a cello player, and I played the cello, but he was better than me at the cello, and he was also a better tennis player than me, so I was always like, 'I wish there was something that only I did!'

When I was five, I wanted to be a cleaning lady; when I was nine, I wanted to be the world's number one tennis player.

I know my serve stinks, but I was a pretty good tennis player.

As a tennis player you can win and you can lose, and you have to be ready for both. I practised self-control as a kid. But as you get older they both - winning and losing - get easier.