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Tennis is what I do and is part of who I am.

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

It wasn't my tennis that made me lose, it was a lot of different things going on, high drama, high emotion.

I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.

Women's tennis is two sets of rubbish that lasts only half an hour.

I was very lucky in as much as I played a lot of tennis.

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.

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

Tennis doesn't encourage any kind of intellectual development.

I really try not to read the tennis articles, because a lot of times they're guessing at how a player is feeling, and I like to keep myself kind of open minded about how I'm feeling, rather than have someone else explain to me what's going on.

Another little known fact about Amazing Tennis - the computer opponents are modeled after real people. In an odd turn of events, I joined a division 3 college tennis team at age 38.

A good thing is I've been playing tennis I think every day for the last two months. I really haven't had a day off. I've been doing things that I did used to do.

Since a month, two months ago, you know, I've started hitting the ball well. I'm playing some really good tennis. That really helps. I sort of have to motivate myself to get pumped up. It really helps my game a lot.

I'm really trying to focus myself on playing tennis, and I think that's really important.

When I was younger, I was a robot. Wind her up and she plays tennis.

If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life.

I was very, very shy as a younger girl, just petrified of people. Tennis helped give me an identity and made me feel like somebody.

I haven't seen the film yet because I just got in from London. In the scenes where the two characters are bantering with each other, it is like bobbing at the net in tennis.

I don't do a huge amount of physical activity. I play tennis, I work out sporadically, and I eat well and take care of myself.

When you are very little tennis should be fun, it should be a game.