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.”

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

“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.”

“The older you get, the more you learn.”

“Now that I beat Lindsay I feel much better.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“Sometimes you want to make your own experiences.”

“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.”