Katrina Adams Quotes

Katrina Adams

Profession : Athlete

Birth : August 5, 1968

With Venus and Serena and their ascension - and you had a lot of kids that saw them and wanted to be like them - it's like any sport, any major athlete, like Michael Jordan in basketball: everybody wanted to be like Mike.

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My parents were teachers.

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I grew up in the USTA's junior circuit.

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Northwestern was never known as a sports school. I was proud to add a national title to the school.

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Everything that I do is with a purpose and intent of wanting to make a difference.

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A new sport is being created every day in the U.S.

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It is difficult for our youth to want to be active when PE is taken out of our schools.

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I was a player who was vying to do exactly what everyone else was doing, and I happened to be black.

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Someone had to lend me a hand or two to pull me forward. I feel it's my duty to make sure I do the same.

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I don't take no for an answer.

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I went to Northwestern. I bleed purple and white.

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Billie Jean King always was there for me as a role model. She always fought for equality, and that always stood out as I was coming up.

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We are a traditional sport in an innovative society, and so trying to make change is always a task.

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When we introduced 10-and-under tennis - when we shortened the courts and had smaller rackets and low-compression balls for trying to introduce the sport to youth - a lot of people said we weren't going to succeed.

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We make sure that we continue to educate our youth on who Althea Gibson and Arthur Ashe were.

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What we instill in our kids is that if you work hard, good things will happen.

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Serena Williams is the ultimate champion. She knows what it takes to get to the top.

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Serena Williams is the greatest tennis player of all time, the greatest female athlete of all time, the greatest athlete of all time.

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I grew up in youth programs in Chicago, so they are definitely close to my heart. It is all about helping kids and giving back to a sport that has given me so much.

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For players from every age and every ability, the USTA National Campus will raise the bar on how we deliver tennis with the goal of making our great sport more accessible to more people than ever before.

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