Petra Kvitova Quotes

Of course I used to smile and laugh in 1976, but not when I was competing. Please show me somebody who laughs when they are concentrating; I always smiled.

Nothing goes through your head when you're playing except who you are playing against and what you can do to affect the game.

I never read my press when I was competing. I never got caught up in what I was doing at that moment.

I don't think about the press or the crowds or the other leaders of the race. The focus is only on myself. As soon as I see the targets, I tune them out.

Once you are on court, it doesn't matter the way you look. It doesn't help you win points.

Once you are on court, everything is different. I focus on the match.

You go to a contest, and it's like, 'OK, I'm here for two weeks. All my energy, time, thinking, and everything is going toward that.' Everything you're doing is building toward the score at the end.

When you're on the pitch, you can't think about what the fans are thinking.

You can almost get overwhelmed if you start focusing on Serena being on the other side of the court.

Obviously, I don't want to be too emotional. I just kind of want to use my energy on the court so I can just be able to be effective on both ends of the floor.

I just have to play my best against my opponents.

There are times in the game when you have lapses. It just means you're not as locked in as when you first get in or at the end of the game.

When I prepare for a game the names are not really important to me.

I don't know how I look when I'm on the court to tell you the truth, I'm just focused.

Ninety percent of my game is mental. It's my concentration that has gotten me this far. I won't even call a friend on the day of a match. I'm scared of disrupting my concentration. I don't allow any competition with tennis.

When an archer is shooting for nothing, he has all his skill. If he shoots for a brass buckle, he is already nervous. If he shoots for a prize of gold, he goes blind or sees two targets - He is out of his mind! His skill has not changed. But the prize divides him. He cares. He thinks more of winning than of shooting- And the need to win drains him of power.

Games are won by players who focus on the playing field -- not by those whose eyes are glued to the scoreboard.

With everything else that would swirl around me when I got involved in it, tennis was my main concern.

To concentrate intensely for 4 and a half hours, that's too hard for me. Too tiring. I concentrate 'lo maximo' on the 'golpe,' the stroke, but between strokes I'm interacting with the crowd or laughing with my caddie, talking about the spectators, the cute girls.

The main thing is just really to play my game... and while you are playing the match, as it goes along, you kind of figure things out.

When you're in between the white lines, the game face is on. I was only focused on the task at hand - out, safe, ball, strike - leaving little time to think about how special a player, moment or game happened to be.

You don't simply tell someone to get out there and win the tennis match. You say 'move your feet' or 'watch the fuzz on the ball' to really get into the Zen of it. You pull all that together, and then you just might hold up the Wimbledon Plate... It's not about winning first place but bringing every element of effort to whatever you do.

It's very important that you focus on winning games and being consistent down the stretch. I think that's what we're focused on. All of the other stuff about who wins and who loses and how many wins do we need, if we're focusing on that, then that's not good.

And I've always - the competition is one aspect of the job, but I think if you're too busy worrying about the competition, you don't focus enough on what you're doing.

Competition is an easy way to get into flow.