Basketball Quote by Christopher Eubanks

I grew up playing tennis in Atlanta, Georgia.

— Christopher Eubanks

Tennis was a particularly interesting growing-up experience. It's actually a difficult way of growing up because it's such an individual sport. It taught me…

— Andy Jassy

When I left college, I just thought I could play tennis to delay getting a regular job and go there and try to make…

— John Isner

I got into tennis because of my parents. They would play a little on the weekend and I liked it when I played.

— Gael Monfils

Back in East St. Louis, tennis wasn't the real thing. If you weren't playing baseball, basketball, football, you were kind of on the outside.

— Jimmy Connors

I've always loved playing tennis. When I was 12, my parents decided that I should try to do it seriously. My father started to…

— Dominika Cibulkova

Living in Baltimore at age 11, I was still not single-focused on tennis. I still played other sports. It was becoming a bigger part…

— Pam Shriver

When I was growing up, I wanted to be a tennis player.

— Diana Silvers

My mother didn't really want me to go into professional tennis. She thought it was too hard a life.

— Maria Sakkari

I used to play tennis growing up and then didn't play for a good 10 years. I've picked up the sport again and I…

— Andi Dorfman

I never loved tennis. I am just going to go about it as a job.

— Bernard Tomic

I grew up a little girl in the Soviet Union playing at a small sports club. Tennis gave me my life.

— Anna Kournikova