Quotes from Martina Hingis

Now that I beat Lindsay I feel much better.

I was always at peace because of the way my mom treated me.

I've always said I'm a good horse but I'm still an underdog.

I still think I have the speed and the variations also to win the matches, but its very good competition and also a great challenge for me too.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

The older you get, the more you learn.

I didn't have the same fitness or ability as the other girls, so I had to beat them with my mind.

I always give Lindsay so much credit for her tennis game, for her attitude, for her person, and because of how she deals with all the things. I don't think people give her enough credit for how well she's doing.

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

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.

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

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.

Any tournament you go to, you want to win it.

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.

Sometimes you want to make your own experiences.

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.

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.