Quotes from Madison Keys

I don't always have to play my absolute best to win matches.

I loved dance, but tennis felt more natural to me. Dance did help with my rhythm and balance.

I think when I start thinking about results, I stop playing the right way because I start getting too nervous.

I want to be a role model for all young people.

For me it's just never being satisfied with what I've done and always just wanting more and more.

I think the biggest thing is knowing that those thoughts of panic are probably going to go into your brain, and just accepting it... So that's been the biggest thing. Not fighting it and trying to think I'm going to have the perfect mentality the entire time. That's not going to happen.

Setting a goal, accomplishing it, and feeling good about yourself can help build confidence and perseverance.

I think one big thing for me that I need to work on is being able to separate my feelings and emotions from my matches.

Sometimes I have lapses of attention, and I can lose some points very quickly - that's been a big thing for him.

I always travel with a cashmere blanket - I take it everywhere with me!

I have one of those bodies that is just a little more injury-prone.

Let's just stop being bullies face to face, online, whatever.

I think it's definitely hard for the people who just out of nowhere come in and they do really well and all of the sudden the spotlight is on them.

I'm a big fan of grass. It definitely suits my game.

Everyone else wants to hear 'I wanna be Top 5,' or 'I want to be winning a Grand Slam.' Those are all goals of mine, but I'm not going to put a time limit on them.

I have a specific routine before every match. I like to grip my rackets, because I feel that someone else won't do it how I like them. But the biggest thing is that I don't like to stress about my match all morning. Twenty minutes before, I'll sit down and think about the game plan and warm up. And then I just play.

We do get to do what we love. I think that's really special, and I think sometimes we get really caught up in the winning and the losing and rankings. And at the end of the day, we get to play a sport that we love for our jobs.

I know it's a cheesy thing to say, but I just want everyone to be able to get along.

Usually before matches I eat plain pasta with a little bit olive oil, salt, pepper and chicken.

Since I came on the tour so young and I won my first match, I've had a lot of comments like 'You'll be a top player one day.' I got to the point where, as nice as it was to hear that, I almost stopped listening to it. I was almost putting added pressure on myself.

I grew up by the Mississippi River, and I would swim in that as a kid.

My mom and grandma always told me: if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all. It's something everyone needs to be more conscious about. Putting more positive energy out into the world would be so beneficial.

I'm obsessed with my couch. I have the greenest couch on the planet.

I enjoy lifting weights more than I enjoy getting on the treadmill to run.