Top 25 Martina Hingis Quotes

We had a poster of the Davis Cup in 1986. It was in Prague, the Czech Republic against Sweden, and we went to watch, so I got the poster. You couldn’t get all the posters. You were lucky if you got one.

That’s one of the reasons I moved to Florida. Of course, the main reason is the weather and the training. But there’s more jealousy in Switzerland because it’s so little and they don’t have so many athletes.

I’ve lived for 10 years in Switzerland, so I speak German.

Well, maybe at home I don’t have the best image.

No, because I think I have a reason to believe in myself and I think I’m also pretty confident about who I am and what I’m doing and it might be because I’m still at the top too.

I was always at peace because of the way my mom treated me.

Honestly, I’m more into the computer, the Internet, and checking out scores or the news.

The top players talk more now, and we have more meetings. We’re just trying to get things better. But we still need somebody who could make a difference.

I didn’t have the same fitness or ability as the other girls, so I had to beat them with my mind.

Any tournament you go to, you want to win it.

I still speak Czech with my parents because I was born there.

He is still my father. He is still a person I know I could trust and he would never do anything against me. Once you’re at the top, there are not many people like that. People always want something from you.

Sometimes you want to make your own experiences.

The game overall has gotten so much better, stronger, more physical parts to the game.

The first point is always to believe in it when you go on court and then you have the chances to win.

I’m not saying I’m something special. I might play a little better tennis than other people, but it is because I was given the chance, and not many people are.

I’m glad you’re doing this story on us and not on the WNBA. We’re so much prettier than all the other women in sports.

Now that I beat Lindsay I feel much better.

I always give Lindsay so much credit for her tennis game, for her attitude, for her person, and because of how she deals with all the things. I don’t think people give her enough credit for how well she’s doing.

Right now I like baseball, hockey and tennis players. And horseback riders.

The older you get, the more you learn.

I grew up on the tennis court with lots of other kids. There were like 40 kids all afternoon and I was one of the youngest ones, so I always had to chase everybody to keep up.

Sometimes I wouldn’t give an interview because I didn’t have the time or something else was more important. So they come up with a story which I don’t think is always true, but they have to sell papers.

I think the whole boycott thing was a bit too much. It’s because we’re accomplished so much in women’s tennis in the last two, three years. We deserve something better.

I have good anticipation, and good reaction to the the ball because I’ve played so many matches in my life.