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Many tennis coaches are enablers. They need the job more than the player needs the coach, and if the coach needs the job more than the player needs the coach, he can't effect change. -- Ivan Lendl
Well, my mum's been a tennis coach - she coached me till I was 12. -- Andy Murray
Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player. -- Bill Gates
My mom, she's from Ireland, coached tennis in Nigeria when she was a missionary and turned me on to it when I was young. -- Donal Logue
Tennis is not like other sports where the coach is hired by an independent entity, and that makes a huge difference in the dynamic. -- Ivan Lendl
I love to promote our sport. I love grass-roots tennis. I love coaching. I love all parts of the sport. I love the business side. -- Billie Jean King
I was in the tennis bubble. I wasn't thinking about the big picture. I didn't notice what they said on television, I wasn't reading any papers. I had a coach and a manager, and they kept me in the bubble. -- Boris Becker
My dad said if you become a tennis professional just make sure you get into the top hundred, because you have to make a little bit of money. You make a living so you can pay your coaching and, you know, your travels. -- Roger Federer
When I started to play, all the coaches said it didn't make sense for me to try to play tennis because I was too small. They said I would never make it. But this was something that motivated me. I really wanted to make it. -- Dominika Cibulkova
People think that there is so much money in tennis, but the reality is unless you're ranked in about the top 50 you don't earn much at all. It is hard to support yourself travelling the world, to be away from home most of the year and to pay for a coach to help you become a better player. -- Samantha Stosur
Even if I play backgammon with my coach, I hate to lose. I won't talk to him for, like, an hour. So imagine how it feels when you lose at tennis. That makes me determined not to lose because I hate it so much. Even at a set down and match point, I always believe I can come back. -- Ana Ivanovic

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