Amelie Mauresmo Quotes

The thing is the game is getting tougher and tougher and we have to ask a lot of our bodies.

Another factor is the education and culture in which you grow up. I didn't grow up in the culture of victory, where you are expected to be or have to be, the best. It was not at all like that in my family. Tennis was really a hobby. If it led to something, great. If not, there were other things in life. I think that was something I was missing at some points in my career, because when I see Hingis or the Williamses, you see how they were educated for this: to win, to be the best, a bit the American mentality. Number one. Number one. Number one. I didn't have this.

Right now I have more confidence in myself. I grew up.

All the people that still believed in me, after seven years - it's a long time.

Well, I guess I needed this tough first round to really put me into that tournament, to really erase what happened at Indian Wells, which is now the case, you know.

There were many occasions in my career where I could have given up, where I asked myself whether I would ever make it.

Unlike in my young days I'm not able to eat, drink and sleep tennis.

Whether it's in the right way or sometimes the wrong way, you learn about life and its lessons.

When you start off a new tournament, you want to do well.

I think you always have, you know, new players. Every year you see new faces, juniors coming into the seniors. I was one of them at the time long time ago now.

When I finished the juniors I felt, perhaps for about a year and a half, that everything was going to be the same and that I would be able to go out there and win any match. But it wasn't the case. I struggled.

My coach told me I had to expect, you know, some long rallies and stuff. So, you know, I was ready for this.

The more kilos you have to move around, the more it weighs on your knees. Then of course in terms of stamina, the way you move around, it's a little extra. It might not be much, but when you exercise with two, three extra kilos, you can feel a difference; it's important.

This trophy is so special in the world of tennis and it feels great.

You have to adjust to where you are but the French are all together - the guys and the women. It's good.

If you are not physically strong, it's difficult. But at the same time, I think you need something more than that; you need to vary your shots, as Justine has been able to do in Amelia or Charleston, where she beat her
I can't remember where it was on clay. So you need this kind of thing. But of course if you're not fit, you'll never make it through.

The day I stop feeling the pressure and I'm just enjoying myself and taking it easy is when I'm 35, asking for a wild card and playing mixed doubles with Arnaud Clement.