Sloane Stephens Quotes

What's a good tournament for him? Winning it. He's good enough.

I obviously want to win a grand slam, but whatever I do, however long I play, I hope I sustain a really long career, a healthy one, just a pretty consistent career. I obviously want to win a grand slam.

When you start off a new tournament, you want to do well.

The real good teams and the real great teams find a way to win.

Like I said, when you have to play against a great player every night, that defines who you are if you can compete on that same level night in and night out.

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.

Maybe for a guy like Zverev or Federer, you could say it's open a bit. For a guy like me, every match is tough, and I'm going to have to battle it out.

It's that I have a good personality and am a good tennis player.

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

With athletes, it's never fully understood the level to which we push ourselves. Especially in an endurance sport.

When Lee and Jack win, it is good for golf. When I win, it is better.

In tennis it's easy to get greedy - and one Grand Slam doesn't feel enough any more.

Maybe, one other match better; but if you look at the tournament as a whole, I played very high quality tennis for seven matches and raised my game when I needed to.

Rankings are not so important. I am only focused on winning tournaments.

This trophy is so special in the world of tennis and it feels great.

My biggest dream is to win four Majors in a year.

No one will ever win a 5,000-meter by running an easy two miles. Not against me.

I never expected to win a Grand Slam because, for me, I was not good enough to beat those guys.

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

It's a very competitive thing, pro sports. The hardest thing in pro sports is staying up there.

When I was young, I associated playing tennis with being part of historic moments, being part of these epic battles and coming out victorious, having those trophy moments. That, for me, is what I saw and aspired to.

I think when you can beat Novak Djokovic in the final of a Masters tournament, you are going to be OK.

People expect that you will play well and score a lot of goals, but it is not always possible.

Even when I was a little kid, I always dreamed that I would play Serena in a final of a Grand Slam.

It is important to start winning international tournaments early and get that mentality into you. Then, hopefully, you can take it on to the world stage.