Michael Chang Quotes

You can work really hard, but if you're not training in the right way you're not going to improve and get to the level that you want to.
Michael Chang

Work, Hard, Training

As long as there's pasta and Chinese food in the world, I'm okay.
Michael Chang

Food, Long, Okay

I still have a belief and a faith that some great things are still going to happen in my career. If I didn't believe that, it makes no sense for me to be out there, and on top of that, I know this is a period of time that God wants me to persevere through.
Michael Chang

Faith, Time, Great

If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try, try, try again.
Michael Chang

Try, Again, Succeed

Maybe sometimes I'm such a thinker, I reevaluate too much. Sometimes when it comes down to it, I really don't need to do anything, I don't really need to change anything. I need to just keep plugging away, working at it.
Michael Chang

Change, Down, Working

All of the Spaniards are really talented. I don't know what they eat.
Michael Chang

Eat, Talented, Spaniards

As an athlete, I used my speed, agility and quickness to go out and play against the big guys.
Michael Chang

Play, Big, Against

For me, at the French Open, if I wasn't playing my match I was glued to CNN watching the events unfold.
Michael Chang

Playing, Open, Events

For me, I think the Lord wanted me to win to put a smile on Chinese people's faces.
Michael Chang

Smile, Win, Put

I actually became a Christian in my rookie year on tour when I was 16 years old.
Michael Chang

Christian, Old, Year

I am actually nondenominational.
Michael Chang

I am just trying to get biblically stronger.
Michael Chang

Trying, Stronger

I didn't have the ability to blow people off the court, so I needed my legs, my preparation and the ability to think on my feet.
Michael Chang

Off, Ability, Feet

I feel like I have as good a shot as anybody out there and I have gotten close in the past, so why not have the attitude that I can come out and play great tennis and maybe even win this tournament.
Michael Chang

Good, Great, Attitude

I have lost a little bit of flexibility, but the doctors say with any kind of torn ligament it is not uncommon for the injury to take 16 months to be 100 percent healed.
Michael Chang

Lost, Bit, Percent

I just feel like it would be so against my personality to have this struggle in tennis and just give up. I know it's not me, not who I am, and that would probably affect other parts of my life.
Michael Chang

Life, Struggle, Give

I look at tennis as a bit of a platform to hopefully touch lives and encourage people.
Michael Chang

Lives, Touch, Bit

I realize that I'm in the twilight of my career.
Michael Chang

Career, Realize, Twilight

I see tendencies, I see body language.
Michael Chang

Body, Language, Tendencies

I think I could look back through the past few years at missed opportunities and stuff, but one thing I have learned is not to dwell on missed chances or times where you have failed.
Michael Chang

Past, Through, Learned

I think the French Open, in many ways, brought out a certain characteristic in me and in my game that was already there. Just the circumstances allowed for it to be able to show.
Michael Chang

Game, Able, Show

I think when you've played at the level that I've played, anything outside the top 10 in certain aspects is just a number, unless you're obviously trying to get into tournaments and stuff.
Michael Chang

Trying, Stuff, Number

I was always really strict on myself about doing everything possible to prepare for competition.
Michael Chang

Everything, Possible, Prepare

I'm a competitive person and it is in my nature to try hard in every match I play. The only time I'm not competitive is when I'm playing against my mom.
Michael Chang

Nature, Time, Mom

If you quit once, it's so much easier to quit the second, third, fourth time.
Michael Chang

Time, Once, Second

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Nationality: American

Born: February 22, 1972

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