Amelie Mauresmo Quotes

As I always say each time I start a tournament, I want to go as deep as I can.

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.

I think something that has separated me from the rest of the competition - maybe it's just my way of thinking - I don't necessarily go into fights just wanting to win but to actually dominate. So when I don't feel like I dominate, sometimes I feel like a loser, I guess, you know, maybe in that perspective.

If any player in the world tells you he doesn't care about what the opponents do, he is lying.

People used to talk to me about that and say, 'Rom doesn't play with passion.' I do, but I don't show it too much because in my mind, I'm a guy that thinks a lot about how to win the game. Sometimes I let the emotions just come now, and it helps me.

I'd rather be able to play great tennis at a slam than make eight finals of little tournaments and then lose first round of a slam. That doesn't sound too good.

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

I'm a sports junkie, and I am interested in athletic will - how you exceed the expectations of your own performance when it counts to deliver something beyond yourself so that you can win.

You don't win tournaments by playing well and thinking poorly.

The Olympics are a world apart from racing for a record. You put out of your mind pretty much what anyone else doing in the race.

If I'm not Top 10 or seeded every tournament, it really doesn't matter. I can beat anyone on a good day.

I know if I want to have a chance to beat the top players, I need to be mentally ready for that.

Obviously you want to play hard all the time, but at different moments of the game you step it up even more.

I never think: 'If I crash, I'm going to hurt myself.' I might think: 'If I crash, I'm not going to win.' Everything's about that finish line.

The battle to win - on the pitch and in the boardroom - begins and ends in one's head.

I can't be getting off my game. I need to be getting teams off their games.

I work better under pressure. I was the local badminton champion when I was a kid, and there was another girl who used to thrash me for the five days leading up to the tournament and then I would just nail her to the floor in the competition.

Just got to win games. You've just got to find ways to win games.

I cannot see a situation when I won't feel pressure to play well and win.

It doesn't matter if it's preseason or a scrimmage. I'm trying to have a dominant performance, whether it's preseason first series or whenever I get out there.

It's shocking how little there is to do with tennis when you're just thinking about nothing except winning every point.

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

The mind is absolutely instrumental in achieving results, even for athletes. Sports psychology is a very small part, but it's extremely important when you're winning and losing races by hundredths and even thousandths of a second.

Each match I play is the most important one yet.

Some people don't like competition because it makes them work harder, better.