15 Quotes by Shamil Tarpishchev

It was a very difficult time for me.

I took up tennis only because we were allowed to play soccer after our regular training.

It'll be at least another month and a half before he can resume playing.

I wanted to be a soccer player but my mother forced me to quit because she thought it was a dangerous sport after I got injured,

I knew I wouldn't be allowed to succeed, so I decided to quit. Besides, at the time Soviet leaders considered tennis a bourgeois sport and we were not allowed to travel to the West and play against the best.

I don't think there is a problem between any of our players. Anything that was said about it, has been greatly exaggerated by the press.