Quotes About Competition

Wimbledon, for me, is the most important tournament of the year, so you know there's always going to be people expecting me to do well.

For me, Wimbledon is such a special tournament. I feel at home when I play there, and the grass is perfect.

I remember when I was younger taking more pride in Wimbledon than the French. That and the U.S. Open - they were the ones I wanted to win.

To have Serena in the Wimbledon final, I think, is the hardest match you can have.

Winning Wimbledon in 2011 was a bit of a surprise for everyone, including me. It was like I was in a dream, and I didn't realise what it meant.

I can play on grass - when I won Junior Wimbledon, that was an unbelievable feeling, I could not believe that I had won the tournament, as Wimbledon is like the holy place of tennis.

I was like, 'I'm going to win Wimbledon!' I was crazy competitive, leg-slapping, all of that. But when I was 12, I saw 'What's Eating Gilbert Grape,' and it just opened my eyes to what movies can do and how they change us, and I was like, 'This is what I want to do. This is what I have to do.'

I would love to do well one last time in Melbourne and my dream would be to win Wimbledon and play in the London Olympics.

To cry on court during a Wimbledon final, you must feel so lonely.

Once you step on the court, you see the crowd, you see the final, you see I'm here playing another Wimbledon final.

I just thought at Wimbledon I was very nervous.

Beating Roger Federer is a match I will remember for years to come. All my respect to him. Federer is arguably the greatest player to have ever played our sport, so beating him at Wimbledon was really special.

Winning Wimbledon would be a childhood dream come true.

Wimbledon just is the epitome of tennis.

There is nothing like Wimbledon. When I think about tennis, I think about this tournament.

In 1971, big tournaments were very new to me. I just thought Wimbledon was one of the other tournaments.

Wimbledon heralds the unofficial start of summer.

I'm at the French Open right now and enjoyable as that is, it's only really Wimbledon that I miss from when I played elite tennis. I love that place so much, it's so special. That's when I say, yeah, I wish I was out there again. But then the moment passes.

I think probably Wimbledon is my best chance to win a slam.

My first match on a Grand Slam show court was when I played Petra Kvitova on Centre Court at Wimbledon in 2015. Petra was the defending champion and I think I was done in 34 minutes.

I think the best match I played was against Roger Federer in the quarter-finals at Wimbledon in 2011, especially because I won this match after being two sets down.

Wimbledon is not the easiest tournament in which to make a comeback.

At Wimbledon if it is slightly wet you don't even play the match. At the French Open you need to just get on with it and somehow adjust.

Wimbledon is quite simply the ultimate championship, and I'd be the first to admit it was the one I wanted to win. A lot has to do with the history and the tradition: the grass courts, the royal box, the grand spectacle of it all.