MICHAEL CHANG

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.

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

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

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

I look at tennis as a bit of a platform to hopefully touch lives and encourage people.

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.

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

I see tendencies, I see body language.

I realize that I'm in the twilight of my career.

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.

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

I am actually nondenominational.

I was always really strict on myself about doing everything possible to prepare for competition.

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 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.

Obviously the Asian American community wants you to do well. They are cheering you on no matter what the circumstances.

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.

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 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.

Nearly all of these Chinese girls that have had success have had coaching from foreign coaches.

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

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 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.

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

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