Petra Kvitova Quotes

Anna Kournikova will always be better paid than Lindsay Davenport. The first left the circuit without having won a single title while the second was world number one.

Being world No 1 would be fantastic but you'd like to do it by finishing the year as No 1 without anything happening off the table to someone else's ranking.

I was lucky enough to win the Davis Cup in my first year in 1999. I won my first slam at the U.S. Open in 2001 and became world No. 1 later that year. By the age of 20, I'd done it all.

I remember when I was younger taking more pride in Wimbledon than the French. That and the U.S. Open - they were the ones I wanted to win.

I'm pretty realistic. I cannot wish to be Chris Evert or Martina Navratilova because they won, like, a hundred Grand Slams.

I would love to have been a tennis player simply because of Serena Williams.

There are not a lot of people in the world that get to say they get to walk through the gates of Wimbledon and play on Centre Court. It's pretty phenomenal, and we're very lucky to live this life that we do.

Winning two Wimbledons is very nice, no matter what.

As a teenager, Monica Seles won some historic matches on the tennis court, dominating opponents and filling a room with trophies.

But, then, Sampras won Wimbledon six times and that automatically puts him among the greatest.

I'm not going to be a ten or twelve grand-slam winner. It's not going to happen.

No one cares about the Davis Cup. How many people know I won five Davis Cups and seven majors, but that I rarely played the Australian Open?

My favorite tennis player, who I'm amazed by, is Roger Federer.

My dream was always, when I was a little girl, to be number one and to win grand slams as the number one.

Nadal is going to break all the records.

I got to one Grand Slam final, and that's what you shoot for as a player.

I think winning the world tour events is pretty special. They're just so hard to win.

That top 100 is a big barrier that every tennis player strives to break into.

I really believe that I can be the No 1, but for that to happen, I probably need to win a couple of grand slams, and they are not going to fall from the sky.

Of all my achievements in tennis, I'm probably as proud of my record on clay courts as any of my Wimbledon, U.S. Open or French singles titles.

The Olympics is not for tennis and tennis does not need the Olympics. It is not my goal in life to win a gold medal.

In the complete overall history of tennis, I figure I'll be worth a sentence or two.... That's why my place in the all-time rankings means so very little to me, because I know I won't be anybody's number one, and it's that same old thing: if you're not number one, then what does it really matter?

There's a very practical reason why Pete Sampras, for example, makes a lot more money than Martina Hingis does. He's much, much better than she is.

My goal isn't to be a top junior. It's to be a top pro.

There is nothing like Wimbledon. When I think about tennis, I think about this tournament.