Court Quote by John Newcombe

Even when I was No. 1 in the world, I was taking it one match at a time. I never was a player to…

— Lleyton Hewitt

My first European game was a qualifying match against a team from Luxembourg. That was my introduction.

— Martin O'Neill

My debut was against England back in 2012.

— Marco Verratti

When I was in college, I think my last match maybe was the first match aired live, but otherwise if you were going to…

— Cael Sanderson

I started training in January in 1993 and my first match was in April of that same year.

— Christopher Daniels

On the pitch, my first tournament, the European Championship in England in 2005, was special.

— Karen Carney

My first match on a Grand Slam show court was when I played Petra Kvitova on Centre Court at Wimbledon in 2015. Petra was…

— Kiki Bertens

My first match was against Sputnik Monroe at the Amarillo Sports Arena. It was scheduled for only ten minutes. Sputnik got me down and…

— Terry Funk

I played my first World Cup game against South Africa where I scored 97 runs before being run-out by Jonty Rhodes.

— Sourav Ganguly

The first games were against Belgium and Switzerland, and that changed me as well because I used to play striker at Hull, and when…

— Daniel James

The U.S. Open was the first tournament I watched in person when I was 8 years old.

— Coco Gauff

The very first tournament I watched is the U.S. Open when I was 13. And that was the year Juli Inkster won.

— Yani Tseng