Petra Kvitova Quotes

New York at times runs me dry because there's so much to do. There's never enough time to do everything. It's nice to have the balance in Moscow.

My life is so active, and I'm fighting the whole day that I don't have any aggressiveness or any energy outside of fighting. I'm the most chill couch potato you could ever meet.

I always find it particularly difficult to work in New York because there are so many things to do.

When there are four or five tables going on it is hard to keep your concentration.

I don't want to get back into the pressure cooker of play-by-play and worry about travel. I don't want to die in a stadium parking lot.

If you have a screaming angry director, everyone else will be panicked as well.

When you're entertaining all day long and that's your work, you end up really very tired. You don't have a lot of energy left over for your loved ones.

I worked 120 hours a week for eight years. That's 20 to 22 hours a day every day and one week I only got 15 hours sleep.

Everybody always talks about the pressure of playing at Wimbledon, how tough it is, but the people watching make it so much easier to play.

When I'm standing in a stadium packed with 80,000 screaming fans, I can't just whip out my Bible before I run. That's when I start praying! It's so loud that I can't even hear what I'm saying, but it always helps.

Sometimes you work all the way through to 5am, then get a few hours and you're back on set again.

After a prosperous, but to me very wearisome, voyage, we came at last into port. Immediately on landing I got together my few effects; and, squeezing myself through the crowd, went into the nearest and humblest inn which first met my gaze.

Celebrity has become a burden. There are more demands on your time. People think it is glamorous to fly places. But it is not - even if you travel business class and stay in wonderful hotels, you end 10,000 miles away from home.

Go to a place where you're not going to be stressed, because a honeymoon itself can be a stressful thing.

Fashion Week is horrible. I mean, it isn't horrible, really - it's amazing. But having to work that much every day is.

I made observations for three hours last night, and am almost ill today from fatigue; still I have worked all day, trying to reduce the places, and mean to work hard again tonight.

I had a peace all day. I knew it was a tough golf course. I probably prayed more the last three holes than I ever did in my life.

The touring was crazy, it was a lot of work. But I enjoyed it.

On the scale of someone who's really laid-back about stuff and someone who worries a lot, I fall more towards the latter.

I tend to get my hands into all these other things and all these distractions, and after a while I start feeling depleted.

If you can keep playing tennis when somebody is shooting a gun down the street, that's concentration.

It's a miserable life in Hollywood. You're up at five or six o'clock in the morning to be ready to start shooting at nine.

The damned everlasting clatter for offices makes me feel like resigning.

I once went on the most grueling radio tour. Living in hotel rooms, sleeping in the backs of rental cars as my mom drove to three different cities in one day.

I stopped doing standup because it stopped being fun. And the reason it stopped being fun was it was harder to write - and this was before the Internet - it was harder to write new stuff. It had gotten so crazy.