Lindsey Quotes
Lindsey Quotes
What Lindsey has to say and what others have to say about Lindsey!
Lindsey on winning Wimbledon:
It feels incredible. After I won, I was in more shock than anything. I didn't
quite know what to do. You know, I would always say that my best chances
were always on hard court and after struggling here for a couple of years,
and not playing so well on this surface, to win here, to not lose a set, to
beat Graf and Novotna, who are the best grass court players we have, all of
that combined just makes it the most amazing win.
John McEnroe:
"I look at someone like Lindsay as inspirational," McEnroe said. "We had
Andre at the French, and he lifted the spirits of the tennis world. But to see
somebody like Lindsay, who wasn't known as the best athlete, shows you can
do it the old-fashioned way: hard work, dedication, love for your sport."
Mary Carillo (a piece she did for HBO):
If you buy into the overheated hoopla best
personified by Anna Kournikova, women's
tennis is wildly popular because of all the swell
subplots -- Kournikova's a vixen, Venus and
Serena are crossover calendar girls, Hingis is
an off-putting pubescent and Steffi Graf has
survived both her injuries and her father.
Lindsay Davenport, by the way –- Hello? –-
ended last year number one and can recover
from that spot if she reaches the final. Lindsay
has never been a part of the hyperbole
hootenanny that informs and deforms our sport.
Lindsay is the classic middle child of women's
tennis, and she suffers the Jan Brady syndrome
as well.
She's aggressively normal. One year she skipped the grasscourt practice
over here so she could attend her high school prom. When she got to
Wimbledon she brandished her diploma and paraded it around the locker
room, declaring, correctly, "I'll bet a lot of you have never seen one of these
babies."
I like her sense of humor. I like even more how seriously Davenport has
trained the last two years to be the best player she can be. Her hard court
progress won her last year's US open.
Grass is her worst surface, but her big-babe brand of tennis could serve her
well, too. There is an uncomplicated clarity to it all -- clean, hard and
emphatic. Give her a dry court with all that speed in it and maybe she can
make something happen -- even win this thing.
It's her only chance to make news, and winning is the only way she can
make headlines.
So if you like women's tennis as a physical and mental effort -- that is, as a
sport -- it's worth rooting for Lindsay. There's no why she can't play the lead
role too.
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