“For me specifically, I think college benefited me. Just getting me out...” — Jennifer Brady Quote

For me specifically, I think college benefited me. Just getting me out of doing, getting me out of what I was doing before. I was just doing the same thing, you know, every day, same schedule, just practicing, training, things like that.

When I first went to LA. Honestly, it was different for me. The whole thing, the student-athlete part, you know, where the student came before the athlete. That was totally new to me. I had down online school since fifth grade so I never really had sat in a classroom and taken a note.

If you were to tell me that when I left, if I were to go to college in 2013 at U.C.L.A. and seven years from then I would be in the quarterfinals of the U.S. Open, I would probably laugh.

I like competing. Just going out there and battling. Having a game plan and going out there and executing it.

I hate not practicing.

I can't get on another guy for acting a certain type of way towards something if I'm not practicing what I'm preaching.

I'm just going to keep dialing it in and keep practicing.

In our religion, there are people who might be conservative about practicing dance after marriage, but I don't want anything or anyone to come between me and my dance.

I take a lot of pride in playing every week, practicing every day because I believe that's the only way you can continue to get better.