Yani Tseng Quotes

All my fans tell me what a glamorous life I have, but I tell them how hard I work and how many nights I spend alone with my dogs, eating chicken pot pie in my bedroom.

There have been a few friends who have taught me some great lessons in life. I wouldn't like to name them. They did things that I never expected out of them that left me heart-broken. It was during these rough patches in life that they left me alone. I know now that it was only my position that they were interested in.

When I got '227' and broke out from the rest of the cast, I became a workaholic, and I was very lonely.

If you want to get to the top, there's always the risk that it will isolate you from other people.

Sometimes you just work, you work, you work, and you have no life, no boyfriend, you have no more friends, no more nothing, you just make movies, and you're tired, and you don't know why. Then everybody says, 'Oh you are so lucky, you are working!' And you're like, 'Oh yeah, oh yeah, it's so great!'

My childhood, I would say, was a bit sad.

I'm not trying to strike everybody out.

For me, it is sad when I listen to this, that one player must be more selfish to reach the top level.

You have all the ambition of winning a championship and competing in your hometown. For me, it didn't work out that way.

Many times I wondered whether my achievement was worth the loneliness I experienced, but now I realize the price was small.

I was ready to love the whole world, but no one understood me, and I learned to hate.

I got to play in a crowd, play in Wimbledon finals, be the guy on a Davis Cup team for a while. Those are opportunities not a lot of people get. As much as I was disappointed and frustrated at times, I'm not sure that I ever felt sorry for myself or begrudged anybody any of their success.

Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.

In today's world, we all live with the burden of feeling that anything is possible if we're only clever enough, smart enough, work hard enough.

Competition is such a virtue, and everybody's so busy competing, they have no time for compassion.

I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.

Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.

On the other hand, I have devoted so much energy to reach the top that I accept the stress of being there.

Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.

I want to be the best, so whatever comes with that, I'll have to accept.

If you are in the job for glamour, you're in for the shock of your life. The media is a huge shark pool.

You can sell millions of records, be showered with all this love and admiration and still feel despised and unwanted. That's what I felt. I've made a lot of mistakes I'm not proud of.

When I was in acting classes early on, there were so many people in these classes who were doing great work, and you'd just look at them and say, 'Wow, I hope to someday be like that.' And yet these people never worked. You never saw them.

I know what it takes to get to the top.

I felt nobody would understand what was going on in my mind.