Quotes About Semifinals

Some of my worst moments in football have been losing semi-finals, the Barcelona game in 2009 probably more than most. But you have to take it and bounce back.

For a young player like me, it is good to play for a club that can get to the semi-finals because one of the reasons I play football is for these big games.

It's disappointing to lose a game with the chance to go into the semi-finals of the Champions League.

I think in 1991, when Jimmy got to the semifinals, it was just incredible all of the people coming out.

I played Mary Joe Fernandez in the semifinals. She was winning the first set. Second set was very close. I started to play this aggressive game. I think I surprised them.

The Davis Cup should be home and away from the semi-finals as a minimum, I would say even the quarters.

I wouldn't lie and say it's not disappointing to have reached so many semis and a final and not won the Champions League.

Sometimes when you get to the press conferences, you hear you're going to play this person in the semifinals, and in the quarters, you're going to play her. And I'm like, 'Hold on a second.' First of all, you have to make it there. Second, your opponent needs to make it there. It looks easier on paper than it is in real life.

Tonya Verbeek is a rival of mine I always come up against in the semis or the final of the Olympics. We have been fighting each other for a long time, so she knew my wrestling, and I knew hers... I was thinking that the only thing I could do was somehow to deceive her, anticipate her and get in my tackles.

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

I was telling somebody the other day that I have had five semi-finals with South Africa and never got to a final. I got to one final with Pakistan and eventually got a medal!

It's unbelievable. To be in the semis, it's just crazy. To play Serena it will be a great match.

If you reach the Champions League semifinals three times in a row that speaks for itself. To win this competition isn't easy.

The play-offs are a great occasion to be involved in; the semi-finals were amazing. When you're in it it's special and you do enjoy it but if you are in it, you have to win it. It's a lot of pressure.

My confidence is not in man, it's in God, and so I look forward to the semi-finals with that in mind, absent of fear.