Laura Robson Quotes

My father got me involved in the game when I was four years old.

Our sport was founded on the tournament.

I know that in football everything can go very quickly.

I've always seen football as a game. You lose or win.

I had never played a team sport when I was younger.

I like to play against Juan Monaco.

It's a very complex sport, so judging is going to be very complex, too. And not everyone is going to agree all the time on who wins a fight.

I had my first trial at Villa at five.

It's the referee's job to stop the fight. I'm in there to win, defend myself, and further my career.

Everybody tries to score a great goal, and I am lucky I have netted a few.

There's nothing like playing. You can coach and you can be around the game, but there is nothing like playing. It's just so much fun.

Good spectator sports share certain fundamentals. Their competitors battle head-to-head. Their winners are determined objectively: fastest runner, most points. They are refereed, not judged.

I played softball. I was on an all-star team. I traveled with the team. I loved it.

I played Chang here under the lights here. I think that was '91. Another good match. I've played a lot more good matches under the lights than I played bad. You tend to remember some of the bad ones unfortunately.

I'll let the racket do the talking.

If you look at any superior athlete, you will find a strong parental influence. Parents introduce their children to a sport, and then they support them.

I don't know much about sports.

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.

I like the order and simplicity of sports. They have an ending. You can argue with your friends about it, but in the end, you still like sports. I almost love the fantasy world of sports more than the real world.

Everyone must know by now that the aim of Scrabble is to gain the moral high ground, the loser being the first player to slam the board shut and upset all the letters over the floor.

Too many people asking too many questions in tennis. Golf is better.

Quite frankly, I don't miss standing in the box or standing on the field playing.

For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning.

I want to win football games.

I just loved to play. I liked to study the other ballplayers. I could talk about it for ages, because I played professional ball for 20 years, and I was still learning when I quit.