Quotes About Victory

It's just a wild experience to have thousands of people stand up and cheer for you.

'Honey, I'm Good' is a song about temptation, and we wanted to show what is possible if you can beat it.

It can be a great temptation to rest on the field and let the opponent have a play without making him pay for every inch.

Apparently I have 12 league games to go to get 1,500 and that is really tempting to me.

Ali's got a left, Ali's got a right - when he knocks you down, you'll sleep for the night; and when you lie on the floor and the ref counts to ten, hope and pray that you never meet me again.

If they didn't have ten fights a night, it was a bad night.

My first match was against Sputnik Monroe at the Amarillo Sports Arena. It was scheduled for only ten minutes. Sputnik got me down and was on top of me for the first eight minutes. My father came running down to the ring and yelled for me to get up. I don't know how I got up but I did. I was a lot more scared of my father than I was Sputnik.

You can win ten times, and then you are not able to win five times. I have to discover the reason why, and I am going to find that.

What people tend to forget is the journey that I had getting to Formula One. There were plenty of years where I had to learn about losing and having bad races.

In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best.

When you look at a company that's already succeeded or is at the very top of its game, it isn't necessarily when it's executing well. It tends to be peacetime - you've defeated the competition, you have the highest margins, the highest multiple.

The greatest thing the Democrats have ever done for me was to defeat me for the governor of Tennessee.

This is a dream from when I was kid. I'm playing tennis almost 18 years, and of course everybody's dream is to play the final of a Grand Slam.

My mother is a fighter. After she battled polio and learned to walk again, the doctors told her she would be a cripple her entire life. Instead of accepting defeat, she refused this fate and went on to become the West African Women's Singles tennis champion in college.

This is boxing, not tennis. Everyone likes a bit of rivalry, it makes for a good fight.

Tennis players we're always playing in center courts that feel like arenas. And when we get on the court and the crowd cheers your name or salutes you - it's like you're a gladiator in the arena. And everyone is cheering - and you're fighting, you're screaming, during your strokes - it feels like you're an animal, fighting for your life.

My best tennis at my peak was when I played a lot of matches.

Tennis, for me, every time I went out on the court, it just gave me such joy to play.

I never thought tennis was going to give me so much satisfaction.

No matter what happens, tennis is still tennis: You can see a lot of great matches, a lot of new people.

To play against Serena in a final is something special. You know you must play your best tennis.

If you lose three or four in a row, people start talking about retirement. They are not used to this sport like they are used to tennis. If you take a look at how many times Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer lost, it's all part of the game. Soccer is no different: teams go through bad times and then rise again.

I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.

I began playing in the Pacific Coast Indoor Tennis Championships.