Tracy Austin Quotes

"I was planning to remain an amateur for a while."
- Tracy Austin
(Related: Planning)

"I won the Wimbledon mixed doubles title in 1980."
- Tracy Austin

"Mary Joe Fernandez rarely has a bad loss. She never tries for stupid shots."
- Tracy Austin
(Related: Loss)

"I began playing in the Pacific Coast Indoor Tennis Championships."
- Tracy Austin
(Related: Tennis)

"To meet my goals, I couldn't let up when I was playing tennis."
- Tracy Austin
(Related: Goals, Tennis)

"From one match to the next, I kept on winning."
- Tracy Austin
(Related: Winning)

"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."
- Tracy Austin
(Related: Driving, Force, Mind)

"My mom and dad met at UCLA when he as a captain in the Air Force and she was in her junior year."
- Tracy Austin
(Related: Dad, Mom, Force)

"My sister and I are opposites in many ways. She is six feet tall, while I'm five feet four."
- Tracy Austin
(Related: Sister, Feet, Opposites)

"The prize money for first place was $2,800, but I didn't take it because I was still an amateur."
- Tracy Austin
(Related: Money, First)

"My brother Jeff is now my agent at Advantage International in Washington, D.C."
- Tracy Austin
(Related: Brother, Now, Washington)

"Venus hasn't been to the semis for a couple of years in a Grand Slam - she's been coming back from injury."
- Tracy Austin
(Related: Injury, Years)

"We've gotta give Richard Williams a lot of credit - to give us two number one champions is a phenomenal feat."
- Tracy Austin
(Related: Credit)

"When I was 11, I won my first nationals at Savannah, defeating Kelly Henry in the finals."
- Tracy Austin
(Related: First)

"I didn't want to just rally at the baseline, even though that happened a lot."
- Tracy Austin
(Related: Want)

"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."
- Tracy Austin
(Related: Change, Mother, Winning, Chance, First)

"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."
- Tracy Austin
(Related: Home, Sister, Women, France, Years)