Ball player Quote by Luke Rockhold

No, like I said, my dad was never really part of the tennis. His involvement around what I did with the tennis and with…

— Jimmy Connors

My dad was the one who really loved basketball, and he was the one that put the basketball in my hands, and my mom…

— Jeremy Lin

My mom was a professional tennis player. She was the one who made tennis in Greece an actual sport.

— Maria Sakkari

If you were good at tennis, you were a star in my dad's world.

— Redfoo

My parents were basketball people.

— Anna Boden

I was always an athlete; my grandfather and my dad are basketball players, and I played sports my whole life.

— Juliana Harkavy

My father was a soccer player. All my friends played basketball though, so I stuck with basketball.

— Steve Nash

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

— Maria Sakkari

When his football and baseball careers ended, my dad became an accomplished marbles player. Then dad got really good at pitching horseshoes. And to…

— Mike D'Antoni

When I was a kid, from 10 years old, I worked every day for my dad, huh? Never played basketball. I never played tennis…

— Melvin Van Peebles

My parents were into tennis so they knew - my mom especially - how the whole thing works, and the sacrifices you have to…

— Stefanos Tsitsipas

One day my dad would say, 'OK, if you want to play tennis I can help you out.' And that's how it started. And…

— Caroline Wozniacki