Tracy Austin Quotes
My mind started wandering. I started playing carefully, instead of playing the way that had gotten me to that point. I had to force myself to keep driving the ball.
From one match to the next, I kept on winning.
I started tennis around age 2.
We`ve gotta give Richard Williams a lot of credit - to give us two number one champions is a phenomenal feat.
The prize money for first place was $2,800, but I didn`t take it because I was still an amateur.
My sister and I are opposites in many ways. She is six feet tall, while I`m five feet four.
I began playing in the Pacific Coast Indoor Tennis Championships.
To meet my goals, I couldn`t let up when I was playing tennis.
When I was 11, I won my first nationals at Savannah, defeating Kelly Henry in the finals.
Pam has always been my glamorous big sister - 13 years older than I. She played on the women`s circuit for nine years and came home to tell me stories of France, Japan.
Venus hasn`t been to the semis for a couple of years in a Grand Slam - she`s been coming back from injury.
Robert became the most important force in my life for my young tennis career. He was part father, part brother, part tyrant. The perfect coach.
By the time I was 9, I was frequently asked to play exhibitions at grand openings, fund-raisers for charities, and other special events.
I was 5 when I began semiprivate lessons.
Mary Joe Fernandez rarely has a bad loss. She never tries for stupid shots.
My mom and dad met at UCLA when he as a captain in the Air Force and she was in her junior year.
I was planning to remain an amateur for a while.
Winning that first game was so important; my mother always said that the first game of the second set was the chance to keep it going if you were ahead or change things if you were behind.
My brother Jeff is now my agent at Advantage International in Washington, D.C.
I won the Wimbledon mixed doubles title in 1980.
I didn`t want to just rally at the baseline, even though that happened a lot.
Lindsay Davenport was saying 12 months ago that this might be her last Wimbledon, but things have completely changed because she`s healthy.
I knew I needed to take balls out of the air if I could put them away. I wanted to end the points a little sooner and be more aggressive.
I realized that this was a professional tour stop - the event was called the Avon Futures, a satellite tour of the Virginia Slims.
