Lleyton Hewitt Quotes

In the marathon a crazy athlete can just keep pushing from the beginning, at a championship you don't need a time just to win the race.

I let my racket do the talking. That's what I am all about, really. I just go out and win tennis matches.

Powerful, quick and agile, Serena Williams thrives on winning.

There are days when I go out on the court and I feel like I can't miss a ball.

I'm a sports junkie, and I am interested in athletic will - how you exceed the expectations of your own performance when it counts to deliver something beyond yourself so that you can win.

I'm just super competitive. Squash, tennis, water skiing, computer games... Even if I played you at pool, I'd have to win.

I don't think I was a perfect hurdler, but I guess I did win all the time.

Nobody can walk on a track and beat me unless they have an extraordinary day and I have a bad day, which I keep from happening.

Playing a best of five-set match, you can always bounce back, even if you lose the first set.

It's good when you're out there on a tennis court. There's nowhere to hide. It's all you, tactically, physically, mentally.

That's what I want to do, to go out and perform back to the levels I know I'm capable of, the levels you can produce with consistent games and to win football matches.

Winning matches on any surface will definitely give you a much larger element of trust in what you're doing.

When you play against Rafa, you have to play two hours and 40, 45 minutes.

I cannot see a situation when I won't feel pressure to play well and win.

People talk about the drama of the set that goes on and on. But it leaves one guy exhausted for the next round, it's horrible for the players waiting to come on court, and it has the potential to mess up the schedule for everyone.

When you win in straight sets, where is the challenge?

It's not easy to play 162 games and be focused the whole time. It takes a lot out of you.

My hearts not been in it this year [2005], and I've not been playing well, but I keep on winning.

Once you get the nod, your mentality totally changes. It's like a heavyweight fighter-you win the title and that's it, you don't want to look back and you don't want to change. That's the way I feel and I'm looking to keep the job.?

That's what you do all the hard work for, to play in situations that put your body through gruelling times. If you're not up to it, pull out.

It was a match I lost, rather than she won [on Serena Williams winning with an apparent cramp injury at Wimbledon

I proved that I can win the Grand Slams. I proved that I can last four and a half hours and come out on top against one of the strongest guys physically that tennis had probably seen especially on this surface. So they would probably be the things that I would say I have learned tonight: To not doubt myself physically and mentally from now on.

I still think I have the speed and the variations also to win the matches, but its very good competition and also a great challenge for me too.

Obviously it's very hard for everybody to be successful in the Grand Slams, so that's why some of the players, they lose, and they should not lose.

I don't want to be one of those players who has a good career but couldn't get out of the first round.