Lleyton Hewitt Quotes

I'm not the next Kournikova-I want to win matches!

I love tennis with a passion. I challenged Boris Becker to a match once and he said he was up for it but he never called back. I bet I could make him run around.

Tennis is a funny game, and it takes a life-time of keeping one's eyes open on the circuit to have any chance of understanding the strange phenomena that exist in our exciting sport!

During the season, you just grind, it's a cat-and-mouse game.

The most important for me, it's to fight, give my best on court until the last point.

No one who has gotten second place at a Grand Slam is ever like, 'Yeah, now I feel fine about it.' Everyone wants the other trophy. But it inspires you to work harder and get yourself in that position again so that you can use what you've learned.

I want challenges. I want to compete. I don't want it to always be easy. I don't want it to always just be a few of us girls. I want there to be competition.

My dad was a great competitor in his own way. He would never let us win at anything, and we had to work our tails off to beat him.

I love competing against the best players. I have a huge challenge, and that's to win a U.S. Open and complete the Grand Slam. I enjoy that challenge. Every year it comes around, I get excited to try to conquer that opportunity. I love it.

I had not picked up a tennis racket in 15 years, so I tried.

You always want to win. That is why you play tennis, because you love the sport and try to be the best you can at it.

The only thing that's changed is the competitiveness of the series. It's only become harder to win in our series as the years have gone by. Competition breeds good things, and that's what's happened here.

I really enjoyed every minute of it. I mean, I've learned so much in the last week, I mean, just the way to play a real, real doubles. It was a great experience for me, and we had a lot of fun.

I just hate losing and that gives you an extra determination to work harder.

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

You know, you just go out there, do your best. Sometimes it's good enough and sometimes it is, and sometimes it stays your only one and sometimes you win bunch others behind it.

When you lose a couple of times, it makes you realize how difficult it is to win.

We're going to play better, and we're going to play harder.

Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.

I'm happy with what I've done but it's a challenge to try to win more.

I want to try to prove the world wrong - that you can run and win in the NBA, and you can win big if you keep running. The problem is, can you run for 82 games every minute, every possession of every game?

I get my drive and determination from just winning and playing tennis. I know if I don't work, I won't get rewarded. It was a life long dream to win a Grand Slam so when I was able to do that it felt so good and I wanted to do it again. It's not that hard to stay motivated.

Definitely inspired to keep on grinding, keep on going, keep on doing what we do every single year: Win games and put up numbers.

If you want to beat the No. 1 player in the world, you have to give everything.

I enjoy competition. I enjoy challenges. If a challenge is in front of me and it appeals to me, I will go ahead and conquer it.