Quotes from Michael Chang

It has been a difficult road this year, but still I look at every day as a new opportunity.

You can work really hard, but if you're not training in the right way you're not going to improve and get to the level that you want to.

For me, I think the Lord wanted me to win to put a smile on Chinese people's faces.

I realize that I'm in the twilight of my career.

Seeing the Olympics come to China made me want to get more involved.

You know, I feel like if I don't change something, then the results maybe are going to continue the way that they have. That for me is not something that I want to really be a part of.

I have lost a little bit of flexibility, but the doctors say with any kind of torn ligament it is not uncommon for the injury to take 16 months to be 100 percent healed.

Nearly all of these Chinese girls that have had success have had coaching from foreign coaches.

As an athlete, I used my speed, agility and quickness to go out and play against the big guys.

I was always really strict on myself about doing everything possible to prepare for competition.

I am just trying to get biblically stronger.

I think I could look back through the past few years at missed opportunities and stuff, but one thing I have learned is not to dwell on missed chances or times where you have failed.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try, try, try again.

You can work really hard, but if you're not training in the right way you're not going to improve and get to the level that you want to.

I'm a competitive person and it is in my nature to try hard in every match I play. The only time I'm not competitive is when I'm playing against my mom.

For me, I think the Lord wanted me to win to put a smile on Chinese people's faces.

As long as there's pasta and Chinese food in the world, I'm okay.

I feel like I have as good a shot as anybody out there and I have gotten close in the past, so why not have the attitude that I can come out and play great tennis and maybe even win this tournament.

It's like one of those dreams you have when someone is chasing you. You're running as fast as you can, and someone's trotting behind you, just out of range, trying to grab onto you.

I still have a belief and a faith that some great things are still going to happen in my career. If I didn't believe that, it makes no sense for me to be out there, and on top of that, I know this is a period of time that God wants me to persevere through.