Age Quote by John Newcombe

I couldn't be accepted into tennis school because I was too young. I had to wait a year until I was four before they'd…

— Garbine Muguruza

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

If I'd wanted to be an individual, I'd have taken up tennis.

— Ruud Gullit

I was a tennis player in high school and college.

— Kirsten Gillibrand

I started when I was 8 years old, which is obviously nowadays pretty late, but I guess in my generation it was all right.…

— Jana Novotna

I played a lot of tennis when I was young.

— Roy Hodgson

Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.

— Arthur Ashe

I was always in the tennis business-from 1968. I was in tournaments and also on World Team Tennis teams as well.

— Billie Jean King

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

I was all for basketball, and I made the decision to play tennis.

— Nick Kyrgios

Tennis was a big part of my life from as far back as I can remember.

— Rod Laver