When I committed to playing a little tennis in some exhibitions, it was the best thing for me. It got me in shape. It got me out of the house. It got me doing something I love to do.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I love playing tennis. To me this is not a workout, but a fun extracurricular activity I do with friends so it doesn't feel like I'm working out.
It was so inspiring for me to watch tennis growing up. I thought I was really good playing, until my brother told me I wasn't!
I did everything - swimming, dancing, and badminton as well as tennis. It was always tennis that I really loved, though.
When I retired from tennis I wanted to do other things with my life.
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.
To meet my goals, I couldn't let up when I was playing tennis.
Tennis helped give me an identity and made me feel like somebody.
There was never anything I wanted to do more than play tennis. Never once walked out there and thought, 'I wish I was doing something else.' Not once.
Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
If I played tennis, I had to be in a dance class. I always had multiple activities, so I never had to count on any one of them to feel successful.
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