I actually tried quite a few racquets in college before I…

In college, and when I first turned pro, I cut the ball a little too much for my liking.

— Viktor Hovland

I turned pro at 18 and it took me 20 years to get to world No1.

— Justin Rose

Obviously, signing on with Puma right when I turned pro, it's been a great fit for me to show off my colorful lifestyle as…

— Rickie Fowler

I was a baseball player and a football player at Stanford, so I didn't play a lot of golf in college. I really started…

— John Elway

I never thought in my wildest dreams that I would have turned pro at 17.

— Tony Finau

To be on the same team with Orr was great because when I turned pro, nobody had more charisma.

— Marcel Dionne

Some players are constantly changing racquets, fiddling with them. It's not that I'm not specific with my racquets, but I feel that I'm not…

— Kevin Anderson

I was a chemistry major when I first went to college, which turned out to be a huge mistake. When I realized that, I…

— Kaitlan Collins

Today I break racquets for tomorrow we die.

— Marat Safin

I still break racquets, but now I do it in a positive way.

— Goran Ivanisevic

Whether it's just helping us get to equal pay or helping more kids get racquets in their hands, I think any of those things…

— Jessica Pegula

Materialism and spirituality are two pretty racquets with which charlatans in cap and gown make the same ball fly.

— Honore de Balzac

When we used the small-faced racquets and wood racquets, we had to use every part of the court.

— Evonne Goolagong Cawley

I have always considered tennis as a combat in an arena between two gladiators who have their racquets and their courage as their weapons.

— Yannick Noah

Unless a player goes in for intensive play and tournament competition, two racquets are sufficient.

— Anonymous