Patrick Mouratoglou Quotes

I'm a guy that people look at me not only as a guy that hit the ball.

I was only interested in scoring goals. I wasn't interested in anything else.

But there was no question in my mind that I was gonna still go for it. I was still going for the win. I wasn't skiing for second or third place today, and in the end I think that's probably what got me there.

I didn't know I could even be a professional tennis player, honestly. All this is actually very, very unexpected.

I don't think there's a man on the earth that can stop me from scoring a basketball.

Whether I'd stopped playing professionally at 17 - or if I stop at 35 - tennis will always be a part of my life.

I'm the type of player, once I get in there, I'm locked in. I'm trying to win.

I think Rafael Nadal is pretty spectacular. I have a feeling he might be part animal.

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

I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.

I don't step back, that's football. It's about winning.

Only thing I care about, the only thing I think about is the fight in front of me.

I want it more. That's all it really is. Nobody wants to get hit every possession to get a rebound, and I want to.

Cain Velasquez, he has some technical difficulties, but he has ambition, and he's fearless. He wants to win so badly, and he's in great condition. He's a thinking fighter.

When I told people that I wanted to grow up to be a tennis player, they laughed at me. My dad has always been supportive, but he was laughing, too.

Great players, they always dig deep and have their will to win.

That is what all the top players do and if you want to be the best you know you are going to get marked.

Everyone wants to be a world champion, but when you take that first punch it will tell you if you really want to be in this sport or not. For me, there was no doubt.

I want to fight every opponent and take them out, no matter who it is. I'm here to prove that I'm the best in the division.

I want to play against the best, and that's what I'm doing, just going out there and being focused, just competing every possession.

If Kurt Angle's leg fell off, he'd hop twice as fast to make up for the loss of mobility, man. There's no quit in him.

It's impossible to imagine doing anything else because I always had in my head that I would be a footballer.

As bad as I want to be a Charger, I want to play.

I probably realized when I was maybe 13 years of age that I could make a living out of playing professional sport and from that time on it was really a goal for me do that as soon as I can.

I set the bar high, and I'll do anything, whatever it takes to win. I care more about this game than most people ever will. When you mix a lot of those things with a winning mentality, it's a good thing to have as a franchise quarterback.