Mats Wilander Quotes

I don't want to be competing in a sport where I feel that I'm here not on my talent and my hard work but because of a piece of equipment.

When you are racing in an able-bodied competition, you're all equal and you go out there and try your best, and that's what counts.

It's been years since I've had a real input in the game anyway. For this game, I've just tried to keep all the other stuff away from the players and coaches.

Parents with meager means have the same aspirations for their children as other parents. Children from poor families have the same needs as other children.

It's important that athletes can compete on a level playing field. And youngsters coming into the sport can know that if they are working hard and training hard, they'll see a true reflection of where they stand and what they can achieve worldwide and not be swayed by people who are cheating.

Women play just as hard as guys do. We're just as competitive.

The cooperation of NASCAR - or any other system, it turns out - persists only when everyone believes he has the opportunity to win.

I'm persuaded that sports is the one place where the rules are pretty well set out, where fans are equal. And if you got game or you're a good official, you make it here, whether you're white or you're black.

You can call me a cheater and doper until the cows come home. But the fact remains that in a race where everybody had equal opportunity, I played the game, and I played it well.

On the field, everyone is equal.

I think everybody ought to be allowed to be engaged in athletics at whatever level the audience will accept.

When I'm answering questions from the Denver media, I'm not worried about what the Broncos' people are going to think. I'm worried about what Belichick will think. Isn't that crazy?

You can't be perceived as 'the black actress who doesn't get the same kind of roles as the white actress.' You gotta run the same race. You gotta give the same quality of performances. You gotta have the same standard of excellence, even though people know that you're coming to the race in a deficit. That's just what life is about.

Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete.

I want to help establish opportunities for at-risk kids to have the same opportunities in and outside of the classroom as everyone else.

American athletes, especially distance runners, are at a big disadvantage against the rest of the world. We're expected to live by all the rules, like not being able to coach, but still train and make our own living.

In high school, I played football and became an all-American offensive lineman, but my father hadn't been to any of my games. In those instances, you still hold your head up high. But, when you look up into the stands and you see everyone else's parents cheering and supporting, you have to just stay focused and push through.

Coaches who have been players in the league, they get so attuned to playing how they were successful and who their coaches were.

That's where my heart has been for three decades is to really empower and allow all families the same kind of opportunities I've had for my kids.

I was a firm believer that every cricketer needs to get a fair chance.

My mum did really well raising me and my brother by herself. I know it was a struggle, and even from a young age, when I was boxing, it was always to make my mother proud.

I'm all for competition; competition is good. I just want to make sure the playing field is level.

In the Olympics, everything goes back to square one. The world champion or the world record holder or the ninth last year are fighting for the same medal, and you have got to go there like it was the first time.

I don't agree that there are big teams and small teams in the Premier League. There are just a lot of good teams.

I was so young when I started that I didn't really understand all of it. We'd show up and have the slurs being thrown out there, but my parents always dealt with that. They just told me to go out there, do my best, and try to win. Go out there and race well and they'll shut right up.