Court Quote by Andre Agassi

I knew I was going to play pro tennis when I was 12.

— Frances Tiafoe

That happened a lot. I'm a little girl hitting with people who were older, and they were surprised by how balls came off my…

— Coco Gauff

Tennis was always there for me, which was lucky. I would go play baseball, basketball, football, hang with my brother, do whatever, and at…

— Jimmy Connors

As a kid, I wanted to be a pro tennis player. I was pretty good; at the tennis academies I attended, I always 'played…

— Matt Kuchar

I never thought I was going to make a career out of tennis, to be honest, until I was 10 or 11 years old.…

— Grigor Dimitrov

I started playing tennis when I was 4 or 5 years old.

— Petra Kvitova

When I was eight and a half, my parents moved to a part of Queens where there was a club nearby. We joined, and…

— John McEnroe

We had a court in our backyard, and I would mess around with the players on my dad's team. I hit with two hands…

— Taylor Fritz

I'd also made the first tennis team. I was number two player in the school at 11 years of age and that didn't sit…

— John Newcombe

In tennis, a lot of parents are accused of driving their kids into tennis. I would say I'm the opposite: I drove my parents…

— Ana Ivanovic

I started playing tennis when I was five years old.

— Gordon Hayward

If you told me as a ten-year-old kid, loving tennis as I did, that I'd be plagued by injuries and have to finish early…

— Mark Philippoussis