Balls Quote by Mike Bryan

When I was a baby, I was on a tennis court every day with my mom and with my brothers, so I would pick…

— Petra Kvitova

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

— Luke Rockhold

Tennis was always there for me, which was lucky. I would go play baseball, basketball, football, hang with my brother, do whatever, and at…

— Jimmy Connors

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

My mom was always the supplier of soccer balls, and so people were always knocking on my door, and trying to get me out…

— Freddy Adu

I learnt a lot from my mum because she was involved in my tennis upbringing more than my father in the beginning. She loved…

— Stefanos Tsitsipas

Nobody actually played tennis in my family.

— Novak Djokovic

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

When I wasn't playing with Barbie dolls, I was always playing with different kinds of balls, and my dad said, let's try tennis.

— Sofia Kenin

My mother used to pitch to me and my father would shag balls. If I hit one up the middle close to my mother,…

— Eddie Mathews

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

— Maria Sakkari