#tennis

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. ↗

— Martina Hingis

#always #chase #court #everybody #grew

I think the whole boycott thing was a bit too much. It's because we're accomplished so much in women's tennis in the last two, three years. We deserve something better. ↗

— Martina Hingis

#because #better #bit #boycott #deserve

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. ↗

— Martina Hingis

#better #chance #given #i #little

Right now I like baseball, hockey and tennis players. And horseback riders. ↗

— Martina Hingis

#hockey #horseback #i #like #now

When I was 4 my mother got divorced and we were very close to each other. I always wanted to be with her. She took me everywhere. When she went for dinner with friends or when they had meetings at the tennis club, I was always there. ↗

— Martina Hingis

#close #club #dinner #divorced #each

I'm amazed that years after I stopped playing tennis, people still recognize me in restaurants and ask for my autograph. ↗

— Bjorn Borg

#amazed #ask #autograph #i #me

It's tough when you're No. 1. You don't have any private life, you can't even walk anywhere. I think that was one reason why I lost my motivation to play tennis. ↗

— Bjorn Borg

#anywhere #even #i #i think #life

Few would deny that blacks have become very dominant in athletics: football, basketball, track, now dominant in tennis and dominant in golf. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#basketball #become #blacks #deny #dominant

Family's first, and that's what matters most. We realize that our love goes deeper than the tennis game. ↗

— Serena Williams

#family #first #game #goes #love

Tennis was never work for me, tennis was fun. And the tougher the battle and the longer the match, the more fun I had. ↗

— Jimmy Connors

#fun #had #i #longer #match