Quotes About Competition

I don't put myself under huge pressure because if I don't play well at one grand slam, I know there's another one just a couple of months away.

One thing that is 100% certain is that emotions are always incredibly high in a match and, I would imagine, definitely more so in a grand slam final.

Yeah, certainly you want to try to save your energy at a Grand Slam.

It doesn't matter who's under the basket, I'm going to try to slam or block the shot.

It doesn't matter the way you're playing, especially the beginning of a grand slam. It doesn't change anything.

In Grand Slam, you play every two days, five-set match. You have a little bit more time to make mistake.

It's a joke how tough it is to win a Slam.

Even when I was a little kid, I always dreamed that I would play Serena in a final of a Grand Slam.

When you're in the slam dunk contest, you try to do the things the average person would have trouble doing on a Nerf basket.

I prefer the Grand Slam than the No. 1, but still, to get No. 1, not many players did that, so it's going to be very important for me.

Being No. 1 is great, but it is even better to win a Grand Slam.

I was getting, at like 18, 'Why haven't you won a Grand Slam yet?'

When I was a kid, my favorite event was the Slam Dunk Contest.

I am really proud of other things in my career: being in the top five, reaching the final of a grand slam twice. I'm actually even more proud of making it to the French Open final in 2010 than the previous year.

Grand Slam matches are always tough.

Once you move into the second week of a Grand Slam, you know you are getting closer to playing on some of the world's biggest courts.

When you play semifinals on a Grand Slam, anything can happen, so you must be ready for the chance.

I think I have best result of Grand Slam in U.S. Open.

I go out there and get my eyes gouged, my nose busted, my body slammed. I love the pain of the game.

I don't want to say which guard it was with the Bulls, but I would take the ball and he would come to me and say, 'You are taking my bread.' I didn't know the slang.

It's interesting to see all these guys keep calling me out after they win. I don't know whether it's a slap in the face or just respect. I don't know. I have no idea. I can't tell what to make of it.

Even if Sadio comes and tells me that he's better than Messi, I'd slap him in his face and tell him 'shut up boy, sit down!' But in 2019, in my perspective, he had a better season.

Sleazy people are always in this business. They run the business, pretty much. There are a lot of barracudas.

I never played against my own age, and I was one of the best players. That's when I would get really nervous, maybe not sleep the night before a game.