Zac Hanson's Quotes

It would be nice to have radio support, not that we've ever had that much trouble with it.

It's cool to have critical success because it's always nice for your peers to say, 'Good job.' But who cares about them?

It's pretty much run by everybody. We're very involved in everything that goes on. We always have been.

The real reason we ended up getting into that type of music was our dad worked for an oil company so we spent a year overseas when we were young kids. Because of that, it was all Spanish TV and radio so we ended up having these '50s and '60s tapes, tapes of that music.

You may be pulling from different influences because of different things that are going on in your life, different people that are around you and more experiences to pull from.

I'm visiting my high school. Every half year I do the exams, and then this year I'm going to graduate.

I started when I was six years old. My first coach was my granny, she was the best player in Slovakia.

I was not fighting myself at all as I used to.

Rome is my most favorite city, so I really enjoy to stay here and the whole tournament.

Well, actually I don't care what surface I'm playing on.

Yeah, I think there are many other important things in life, not just tennis.

As I said this year, I didn't try to put any pressure on me by setting high goals or anything, I just want to make sure that every single time I'm out there on the court I do my best, I give 100%, and see where it's going to end up next year.

But just maybe sometimes being even more patient. Even though I thought I did that much better this year, and sometimes, you know, make my opponents play that one extra ball, and just knowing how to play the big points better.

I mean, every single time I was there with Mahesh, I just tried to learn something of his game, because he's, you know, one of the best doubles players that's been around ever.

I mean, it's been quite busy, especially with the rain delay the first few days, and then having to play the late evenings, waiting here every day. It's been kind of difficult.

I really enjoyed every minute of it. I mean, I've learned so much in the last week, I mean, just the way to play a real, real doubles. It was a great experience for me, and we had a lot of fun.

It was a great time here in the States this year, and definitely I feel like I'm playing well again. I gained a lot of confidence in the last couple of weeks, and I just have to, you know, keep going and keep the momentum now.

That's what I've been always saying, that I was always using the mixed doubles especially to improve my net game and being able to return a guy's serve, 'cause then when you play someone like Serena, you are little bit more prepared for that.

Well, I like to - the game of serve and volley, but it's very tough, you know, against the best players because they return so good and their passing shots are really good. So it's really tough to get there with those players.

Well, I think, you know, the university and the high schools are also important, but depends how I'm going to do in tennis - well, I hope. I mean, it depends, so I don't know yet.

Yes, yes, I'm very happy that I finally got through this match, beat No. 7 in the world. It's my best win so far. So I'm really happy the way I play today and felt really strong on the court physically, mentally.

I feel like every time I start up, it's like a truck you have to get into 15th gear, so you very solely crank into that mental space where you feel really immersed in the world of the book and then you can just kind of go. But there's just that few days of frustration to get to that point.

American history and the history of baseball are bound up together: our racial politics can be described and traced through it.

Fiction and nonfiction, for me, involve very different processes.

For many years I didn't have health insurance.

I play American football every Saturday, which I find calming.