Before I got addicted to comedy, I was seriously thinking about playing tennis full time. I joined the tennis team and played with a lot of professionals.
I like playing tennis. I've always enjoyed the process of being a tennis player; I'm just not sure that I enjoyed the travel at the end, and my body didn't recover from the day-to-day grind.
Tennis doesn't owe me anything. Tennis is one of the fairest sports. It's given me so many extraordinary feelings.
Because I was a tennis player, Billie Jean King was a hero of mine.
My audiences have given me lots of love as a tennis player. I hope they appreciate my passion for acting.
No matter what happens, tennis is still tennis: You can see a lot of great matches, a lot of new people.
I was always in the tennis business-from 1968. I was in tournaments and also on World Team Tennis teams as well.
My family belongs to a tennis club in Valencia, California, so I always go there. I play a lot of tennis with my dad and swim. And I like to go to the gym there.
Tennis is such an individual and competitive sport, but it is great being part of a team and getting to know the girls outside of tennis - even though we are all competing for the same thing!
I think the tennis is only a game. You can lose. You can win. After that? In life, there are much more important things than tennis.
Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player.
Acting with Denzel is like playing tennis with someone that's better than you. You either play better tennis or get blown off the court.
I have a TV Soap Boomerang award, and I always start my year with the Australian Open tennis! Tennis, soccer, you name it.
In Hollywood people lie to each other and cheat each other and then go and play tennis. But I don't want to be a tennis player.
Sex doesn't interfere with your tennis; it's staying out all night trying to find it that affects your tennis.
Another little known fact about Amazing Tennis - the computer opponents are modeled after real people. In an odd turn of events, I joined a division 3 college tennis team at age 38.
Ask any comedian, tennis player, chef. Timing is everything.
I got my first tennis racket on my seventh birthday. And because we had a tennis court in our backyard, I played every day. By ten I was playing competitively.
And it was where I learned how to play tennis and eventually became captain of the tennis team at the school and was on the Junior Davis Cup in New York City.
It's just nice to see people enthusiastic about their tennis and want to learn and improve - for me that's the most important thing - I still love my tennis.
Relationships are give-and-take, and when you're a tennis player, you're certainly not giving. You have to be self-absorbed. It has to be about you.
