Michael Chang

“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.”

“As an athlete, I used my speed, agility and quickness to go out and play against the big guys.”

“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.”

“It's difficult sometimes when you have somebody who is of a different culture trying to make light of something that is maybe not quite something that they understand.”

“I am just trying to get biblically stronger.”

“For me, at the French Open, if I wasn't playing my match I was glued to CNN watching the events unfold.”

“My knee feels good right now. I am definitely able to move about whichever way.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I still have a belief and a faith that some great things are still going to happen in my career. If I didn't believe that, it makes no sense for me to be out there, and on top of that, I know this is a period of time that God wants me to persevere through.”

“As long as there's pasta and Chinese food in the world, I'm okay.”

“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.”

“All of the Spaniards are really talented. I don't know what they eat.”

“It has been a difficult road this year, but still I look at every day as a new opportunity.”

“If you quit once, it's so much easier to quit the second, third, fourth time.”

“It's not that easy for some of these players in China to get the coaching they need.”

“Seeing the Olympics come to China made me want to get more involved.”

“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.”

“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.”