A biography for Coco Gauffhasn’t been written yet.
“Serena Williams has always been my idol... and Venus. They are the reason why I wanted to pick up a tennis racket.”
“I realized I needed to start playing for myself and not other people.”
“Obviously I believe in myself.”
“It means so much to me when someone tells me that they picked up a tennis racket because of me or that they tried something new because of me.”
“It's great when they say I'm young and I'm doing great things. It will get frustrating when they say: 'You're young, you don't know any better.' I think it's a good thing to point out that to a younger person but I think we shouldn't put someone's intelligence down no matter what.”
“I was a player who just liked to hit everything. That's where I learned to become versatile. That's where I realized I could be good at tennis.”
“Sometimes when you're around someone a lot, you're gonna get sick of them.”
“I promise you my opponents don't care about how old I am. They want to beat me just as bad regardless of my age, and I want to beat them just as bad regardless of their age.”
“There is going to be a time when I retire and all this, and I'm still going to be a human.”
“If you can think it, you can do it. If you can dream it, you can do it. Just keep working hard. It won't come easy and it will seem impossible but if you keep working hard it will definitely happen.”
“I'm a girl who plays tennis.”
“Tennis spoke to me. I liked being alone on the court. I liked the idea of all the mistakes being on me.”
“If you are choosing silence, you're choosing the side of the oppressor.”
“When I got on tour and when I realized I could do well in doubles... Who wouldn't want to be No. 1 in anything?”
“Really, I don't like crying in front of people.”
“I'm fighting for the future of my future kids. I'm fighting for the future of my future grandchildren.”
“I try to be the voice for those who don't have one.”
“I would say when I got on tour and started doing well in doubles and my ranking started going up, I realized that No. 1 was possible.”
“That happened a lot. I'm a little girl hitting with people who were older, and they were surprised by how balls came off my racket. They may have looked at it as hitting against a little girl. I looked at it as playing with people who were older and trying to get better.”
“I'm constantly looking for ways to get closer to my fans and collaborate to create something different and entering the Web3 world allowed me to do just that.”