25 Quotes by Mary Carillo

What makes Maria so tough is the way she plays, the way she competes. The best part about Maria is her focus. But not to be reacting when somebody's down on the ground, not to even move from the back of the baseline, somehow you've got to shift out of that mode. That's when her focus can look very unattractive.

She had to give it up. All we asked her for was everything.

If Andre is still around the second week, what a great thing that will be to watch.

His presence shows how much respect he has for her, and he's so deferential.

I think the generational differences and that fact that I was a woman doing a lot of men's tennis matches with those two kind of worked. We all brought different points of view. We all pronounced the players' names a different way so it sounded like there were 14 people on the court when we were together. Fred would say it one way and Cliffy would correct Fred and I'd correct Cliff. I think we did produce a nice sound. There was genuine warmth there. It was just a wonderful time.

That was something to me. There were times when I was crying, and she'd come around to me and say, 'Are you all right, Mary?' I was broken up.

That says a lot. They could've chosen Arthur Ashe or a lot of other people. But they chose her. And that's not a sports magazine.

Who knows? There's just no way to tell with the Williams sisters. Venus played a terrible match at the French, and a few weeks later she has an incredible run and wins Wimbledon. Both Williams sisters are good hard-court players, so anything is possible.

There's somebody to look at, and I think that really helped.