Yani Tseng Quotes

I'm nervous when I play in the Masters or most other tournaments.

I lost races because I wanted too much to win them in beating my rivals.

It's tough to think before a tournament that you can win.

I think something that has separated me from the rest of the competition - maybe it's just my way of thinking - I don't necessarily go into fights just wanting to win but to actually dominate. So when I don't feel like I dominate, sometimes I feel like a loser, I guess, you know, maybe in that perspective.

I have to cross the line first. Sometimes you can put it as a fear of losing, but actually it's an addiction to winning.

I always felt like my future was at stake every time I stepped on stage and that was kind of hair-raising. At some point I just went, don't be frightened, you can't do anything wrong, it's your show.

The first point is always to believe in it when you go on court and then you have the chances to win.

I'm not out there just to be dancing around. I expect to win every time I tee up.

Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players' minds the next time out.

The mind is absolutely instrumental in achieving results, even for athletes. Sports psychology is a very small part, but it's extremely important when you're winning and losing races by hundredths and even thousandths of a second.

Every time I toe the rubber, it's no different for me than it was in the World Series.

For sportsmen or women who want to be champions, the mind can be as important, if not more important, than any other part of the body.

I think that major championships are as much about attitude as they are anything else.

A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

You just have to be comfortable in your own skin before you jump into something where people that you're going against are going to be better than you in some way every time.

I get nervous for any competition. I also get really competitive.

The difference between winning and losing is always a mental one.

You don't win tournaments by playing well and thinking poorly.

Half this game is 90 percent mental.

I think the biggest part of my game that's underestimated is the mental part of it.

I know if I want to have a chance to beat the top players, I need to be mentally ready for that.

Every match I won in a Grand Slam, I take confidence of that, and when I arrive in a final, I know my game is there.

When I go to competitions, I don't have so much confidence that I don't worry or get nervous about the other skaters doing well.

You have to come in to major championships, and your attitude has to be on point.

I'm terrified of having to go back to a day job. And that's why I'm training like a man possessed. Because I want to keep winning.