Martina Hingis Quotes

• When I was 4 my mother got divorced and we were very close to each other. I always wanted to be with her. She took me everywhere. When she went for dinner with friends or when they had meetings at the tennis club, I was always there.

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• Well, maybe at home I don’t have the best image.

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• We had a poster of the Davis Cup in 1986. It was in Prague, the Czech Republic against Sweden, and we went to watch, so I got the poster. You couldn’t get all the posters. You were lucky if you got one.

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• The top players talk more now, and we have more meetings. We’re just trying to get things better. But we still need somebody who could make a difference.

  Martina Hingis

• The older you get, the more you learn.

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• The game overall has gotten so much better, stronger, more physical parts to the game.

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• The first point is always to believe in it when you go on court and then you have the chances to win.

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• That’s one of the reasons I moved to Florida. Of course, the main reason is the weather and the training. But there’s more jealousy in Switzerland because it’s so little and they don’t have so many athletes.

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• Sometimes you want to make your own experiences.

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• Sometimes I wouldn’t give an interview because I didn’t have the time or something else was more important. So they come up with a story which I don’t think is always true, but they have to sell papers.

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• Right now I like baseball, hockey and tennis players. And horseback riders.

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• Now that I beat Lindsay I feel much better.

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• No, because I think I have a reason to believe in myself and I think I’m also pretty confident about who I am and what I’m doing and it might be because I’m still at the top too.

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• I’ve lived for 10 years in Switzerland, so I speak German.

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• I’m not saying I’m something special. I might play a little better tennis than other people, but it is because I was given the chance, and not many people are.

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• I’m glad you’re doing this story on us and not on the WNBA. We’re so much prettier than all the other women in sports.

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• I think the whole boycott thing was a bit too much. It’s because we’re accomplished so much in women’s tennis in the last two, three years. We deserve something better.

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• I still speak Czech with my parents because I was born there.

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• I have good anticipation, and good reaction to the the ball because I’ve played so many matches in my life.

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• I grew up on the tennis court with lots of other kids. There were like 40 kids all afternoon and I was one of the youngest ones, so I always had to chase everybody to keep up.

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Martina Hingis (27)

Birth:	30th September, 1980
Nationality:	Slovakian, Swiss
Profession:	Tennis Player

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