Martina Hingis quotes

Martina Hingis is a Swiss tennis player of Czechoslovakian descent, renowned for dominating women’s tennis in the late 1990s. Her exceptional skills and tactical intelligence earned her multiple Grand Slam singles and doubles titles. She remains one of the youngest Grand Slam champions in tennis history. Here are 36 of her quotes:

I was always at peace because of the way my mom treated me. (Martina Hingis)

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

Martina Hingis

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.

Martina Hingis

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

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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.

Martina Hingis

Being black only helps them. Many times they get sponsors because they are black. And they have had a lot of advantages because they can always say, 'It's racism.' They can always come back and say, 'Because we are this color, things happen.

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

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

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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.

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

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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. (Martina Hingis)

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.

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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.

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Now that I beat Lindsay I feel much better.

Martina Hingis

Sometimes you want to make your own experiences.

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The older you get, the more you learn.

Martina Hingis

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.

Martina Hingis

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

Martina Hingis

When I was 4 my mother got divorced and we were very close to each other. I always wanted to be with her. She took me everywhere. When she went for dinner with friends or when they had meetings at the tennis club, I was always there.

Martina Hingis

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

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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. (Martina Hingis)

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

Martina Hingis

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.

Martina Hingis

I don't think it's a low point being in the finals of the French Open, three points away from the victory.

Martina Hingis

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.

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Martina Hingis

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Photo: si.robi, CC BY-SA 2.0

Occupation: Czechoslovakian Athlete
Born: September 30, 1980
Quotes count: 36

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