Quotes from Garbine Muguruza

When you're tired, you say, 'Hey, I need to rest from tennis or something.'

I couldn't be accepted into tennis school because I was too young. I had to wait a year until I was four before they'd accept me.

It is hard because I have played since I was three years old, and everything is tennis, tennis. I am super-passionate about it. And I love it. But I always like to cook, I listen to music. I just try to be like a regular girl.

Tennis is what I've always wanted to do, so it is my dream to be on top.

That's my every day: putting things aside and going out there and have two hours of concentration of tennis.

It is a time for women's tennis to return to the light, as it were, and be on a par with men's tennis, which is at a very high level.

When I came to Spain, I joined a tennis academy, and that was where I learnt the game.

I think people have this love-hate relationship with tennis. I also feel like that.

If we push for the children to know tennis, they have the chance to like it.

I started in a very small tennis club in a South American country where I never thought about becoming the best tennis player.

For me, it has an extra value to be able to beat the Williams sisters in the finals, because they are just so good. For me, it's proof of being literally the best player in the tournament.

To have Serena in the Wimbledon final, I think, is the hardest match you can have.

Once you step on the court, you see the crowd, you see the final, you see I'm here playing another Wimbledon final.

I just thought at Wimbledon I was very nervous.

I'm not afraid to do long rallies. I like that.

The problem we have in the WTA circuit is that the girls do not have a good relationship because we play against each other, and it's a sport.

For sure, people are looking more at what I'm doing, but I think that's fine. It's a good sign. I like it.

When you're a kid and practice on clay, you're always, 'Oh, I wish I could win Roland Garros.'

I like Sergio Ramos, who plays Real Madrid.

With time, I've got more used to grass, and I think my style of game helps.

It's a great thing to have: that pressure everywhere you go, that responsibility. I think it's good to have it.

Is very hard to find, like, a recipe to feel good fitness-wise, tennistically, mentally.

I've said before that when you win, people think it's so easy, but it's not so easy to handle it, and probably I expect myself to always play so good.

It doesn't always work out that you win a tournament and then a Grand Slam, but I'm happy to have the confidence.