Ball player Quote by Marat Safin

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

— Maria Sakkari

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

— Maria Sakkari

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

— Stefanos Tsitsipas

My mother really wanted me to go to school and to university, but I was adamant that I wanted to be a football player.

— Peter Schmeichel

My dad was a professional basketball player, and my mom was a hell of a tennis player.

— Luke Rockhold

“No one ever asked me if I wanted to play tennis, let alone make it my life. My father decided long before I was…

— Andre Agassi

It's pretty hard being a tennis player and Mother Theresa at the same time and that's just the way it is.

— Maria Sharapova

I always said that I wanted to be a professional tennis player, but I don't really think I fully believed it until my junior…

— Christopher Eubanks

My mother wanted very much to play tennis; she wanted, most of all, to be a singer and play the piano.

— Anonymous

I played professional tennis for about six years and I played football and handball in school as well.

— Masaba Gupta

I always wanted to not just be a tennis player.

— Coco Gauff

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

— Ruud Gullit