Amelie Mauresmo Quotes

You still think we can go out there, and we can all run the mile in four minutes, you know, your mind still thinks that, but then you go out and actually try to do it, it's kind of scary.

I feel like I didn't really know how to cope with not playing well.

When you don't make the plays that you know you're capable of making, it's frustrating.

When I play in a tournament, sometimes I'm feeling tired and don't want to play in the tournament. I don't want to lose.

Sometimes you don't play well or you don't score, and in those times, the pressure comes from all around you as well as from yourself.

I think I didn't win a match for one, one-and-a-half years.

It's hard if you don't quite feel on your game to go out and put scores on the board.

When you stop for months and you come back, you try everything, and I worked so hard to get back but then you do it again and again and again. You disappoint yourself and other people at the club, the manager, everybody. You don't know how to get it right.

It bothers me when I don't score.

I just can't stomach playing poorly. More than anything, I hate not getting the most out of my game.

My dad never told me that when you audition, you might not get the role. He wanted to wait until my first disappointment to tell me.

Oftentimes when you see adaptations of books you like, you're let down. As an author, you assume that they are going to suck. A little bit of hope is dangerous.

I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure.

You have no idea what it is like to constantly disappoint people. You see it the moment you meet them. You see in their eyes that they expected something so entirely different, and here they are meeting... you.

Being bad at stuff is hard, and we all deal with it every day because we're all bad at stuff.

Because after my first year I had a lot of success, took everybody by storm, came back the next year thought it was easy and didn't have near the season I had the previous year. It was kind of a wake-up call. And so, life goes on.

Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.

You go from these high hopes when you're writing to just a desperate want of not making a complete fool of yourself by the end of it.

After hundreds of auditions and nothing, you're sitting home and wondering, 'What am I doing?'

I always try to plan things out, but they never work out the way I expect.

In tennis, it is not the opponent you fear, it is the failure itself, knowing how near you were but just out of reach.

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.

When people come to me and tell me I was terrific in this or that, I do not want to fall flat on my face the next time. But, tough, I have fallen flat before. You just get up and dust yourself off.

I've been telling people 'I'm going to go to California, and I'm going to be a big star' since the womb, but lately it was immediately followed by, 'Would you like soup or salad with that?'

Now my way of doing it is I always get disappointed, but there's always a level of high quality.