Words matter. These are the best Michael Chang Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I’m a competitive person and it is in my nature to try hard in every match I play. The only time I’m not competitive is when I’m playing against my mom.
My knee feels good right now. I am definitely able to move about whichever way.
All of the Spaniards are really talented. I don’t know what they eat.
It’s like one of those dreams you have when someone is chasing you. You’re running as fast as you can, and someone’s trotting behind you, just out of range, trying to grab onto you.
I just feel like it would be so against my personality to have this struggle in tennis and just give up. I know it’s not me, not who I am, and that would probably affect other parts of my life.
I feel like I have as good a shot as anybody out there and I have gotten close in the past, so why not have the attitude that I can come out and play great tennis and maybe even win this tournament.
Maybe sometimes I’m such a thinker, I reevaluate too much. Sometimes when it comes down to it, I really don’t need to do anything, I don’t really need to change anything. I need to just keep plugging away, working at it.
The first initial feeling, at least for me, was to go out and play well and hopefully win and have the Asian community be even more proud.
I am actually nondenominational.
I am just trying to get biblically stronger.
I was always really strict on myself about doing everything possible to prepare for competition.
For me, I think the Lord wanted me to win to put a smile on Chinese people’s faces.
I have lost a little bit of flexibility, but the doctors say with any kind of torn ligament it is not uncommon for the injury to take 16 months to be 100 percent healed.
That’s what really seems to be the more difficult aspect – to have the men break through and challenge the best players in the world.
In the tennis world, there weren’t a whole lot of Asians playing. You see it a little bit more now. The same can really be said for basketball.
I think I could look back through the past few years at missed opportunities and stuff, but one thing I have learned is not to dwell on missed chances or times where you have failed.
I think when you’ve played at the level that I’ve played, anything outside the top 10 in certain aspects is just a number, unless you’re obviously trying to get into tournaments and stuff.
As long as there’s pasta and Chinese food in the world, I’m okay.
If you quit once, it’s so much easier to quit the second, third, fourth time.
You know, I feel like if I don’t change something, then the results maybe are going to continue the way that they have. That for me is not something that I want to really be a part of.
I didn’t have the ability to blow people off the court, so I needed my legs, my preparation and the ability to think on my feet.
I see tendencies, I see body language.
Obviously the Asian American community wants you to do well. They are cheering you on no matter what the circumstances.
I realize that I’m in the twilight of my career.
You can work really hard, but if you’re not training in the right way you’re not going to improve and get to the level that you want to.
