Top 40 Martina Hingis Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “I didn’t have the same fitness or ability as the other girls, so I had to beat them with my mind.”

— Martina Hingis

2. “What rivalry? I win all the matches.”

— Martina Hingis

3. “I am number one in the world, so I have the right to be arrogant.”

— Martina Hingis

4. “Before I was the hunter. Now I’m the hunted.”

— Martina Hingis

5. “I have good anticipation, and good reaction to the the ball because I’ve played so many matches in my life.”

— Martina Hingis

6. “I was always at peace because of the way my mom treated me.”

— Martina Hingis

7. “I’m glad you’re doing this story on us and not on the WNBA. We’re so much prettier than all the other women in sports.”

— Martina Hingis

8. “Being black only helps them. Many times they get sponsors because they are black. And they have had a lot of advantages because they can always say, ‘It’s racism.’ They can always come back and say, ‘Because we are this color, things happen.’”

— Martina Hingis

9. “The older you get, the more you learn.”

— Martina Hingis

10. “We had a poster of the Davis Cup in 1986. It was in Prague, the Czech Republic against Sweden, and we went to watch, so I got the poster. You couldn’t get all the posters. You were lucky if you got one.”

— Martina Hingis

11. “Now that I beat Lindsay I feel much better.”

— Martina Hingis

12. “I’m not saying I’m something special. I might play a little better tennis than other people, but it is because I was given the chance, and not many people are.”

— Martina Hingis

13. “I’ve been on top longer and I am younger. I’m just better.”

— Martina Hingis

14. “Right now I like baseball, hockey and tennis players. And horseback riders.”

— Martina Hingis

15. “He is still my father. He is still a person I know I could trust and he would never do anything against me. Once you’re at the top, there are not many people like that. People always want something from you.”

— Martina Hingis

16. “I’m sure she wants revenge. I’ll just try not to let that happen.”

— Martina Hingis

17. “I’ve lived for 10 years in Switzerland, so I speak German.”

— Martina Hingis

18. “I like fast cars. And I like champions.”

— Martina Hingis

19. “When I was 4 my mother got divorced and we were very close to each other. I always wanted to be with her. She took me everywhere. When she went for dinner with friends or when they had meetings at the tennis club, I was always there.”

— Martina Hingis

20. “I feel a quarter Indian.”

— Martina Hingis

21. “One day you can be a kid, but another day you have to be like this is your job, you play tennis. You have to work for that.”

— Martina Hingis

22. “I grew up on the tennis court with lots of other kids. There were like 40 kids all afternoon and I was one of the youngest ones, so I always had to chase everybody to keep up.”

— Martina Hingis

23. “Any tournament you go to, you want to win it.”

— Martina Hingis

24. “Sometimes you want to make your own experiences.”

— Martina Hingis

25. “I still speak Czech with my parents because I was born there.”

— Martina Hingis

26. “The top players talk more now, and we have more meetings. We’re just trying to get things better. But we still need somebody who could make a difference.”

— Martina Hingis

27. “I’ve always said I’m a good horse but I’m still an underdog.”

— Martina Hingis

28. “The game overall has gotten so much better, stronger, more physical parts to the game.”

— Martina Hingis

29. “I think the whole boycott thing was a bit too much. It’s because we’re accomplished so much in women’s tennis in the last two, three years. We deserve something better.”

— Martina Hingis

30. “I find this accusation so horrendous, so monstrous, that I have decided to confront it head-on by talking to the press. I am frustrated and angry. I believe that I am absolutely, 100 per cent innocent. I assure you: I have never taken drugs.”

— Martina Hingis

31. “And the ’99 finals at the French – if I had won that one easily, no one would have talked about it.”

— Martina Hingis

32. “Well, maybe at home I don’t have the best image.”

— Martina Hingis

33. “Sometimes I wouldn’t give an interview because I didn’t have the time or something else was more important. So they come up with a story which I don’t think is always true, but they have to sell papers.”

— Martina Hingis

34. “Honestly, I’m more into the computer, the Internet, and checking out scores or the news.”

— Martina Hingis

35. “No, because I think I have a reason to believe in myself and I think I’m also pretty confident about who I am and what I’m doing and it might be because I’m still at the top too.”

— Martina Hingis

36. “I don’t think it’s a low point being in the finals of the French Open, three points away from the victory.”

— Martina Hingis

37. “I always give Lindsay so much credit for her tennis game, for her attitude, for her person, and because of how she deals with all the things. I don’t think people give her enough credit for how well she’s doing.”

— Martina Hingis

38. “I went through very emotional things this year, like being in the French Open finals already feeling like you got it and kind of losing it.”

— Martina Hingis

39. “That’s one of the reasons I moved to Florida. Of course, the main reason is the weather and the training. But there’s more jealousy in Switzerland because it’s so little and they don’t have so many athletes.”

— Martina Hingis

40. “I still think I have the speed and the variations also to win the matches, but its very good competition and also a great challenge for me too.”

— Martina Hingis