Top 30 Michael Chang Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “As long as there’s pasta and Chinese food in the world, I’m okay.”

— Michael Chang

2. “Hard work is the only way to go. Strive to be the best you can be and remember that when you try your best, you can’t ask any more from yourself, and people can’t ask any more from you.”

— Michael Chang

3. “When you give your best, that’s all you can ask of yourself, all that people can ask of you and all that god desires from you. No matter what the result, walk with your head held high.”

— Michael Chang

4. “If you quit once, it’s so much easier to quit the second, third, fourth time.”

— Michael Chang

5. “It has been a difficult road this year, but still I look at every day as a new opportunity.”

— Michael Chang

6. “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

7. “It’s difficult sometimes when you have somebody who is of a different culture trying to make light of something that is maybe not quite something that they understand.”

— Michael Chang

8. “In the tennis world, there weren’t a whole lot of Asians playing. You see it a little bit more now. The same can really be said for basketball.”

— Michael Chang

9. “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

10. “I see tendencies, I see body language.”

— Michael Chang

11. “It’s like one of those dreams you have when someone is chasing you. You’re running as fast as you can, and someone’s trotting behind you, just out of range, trying to grab onto you.”

— Michael Chang

12. “My knee feels good right now. I am definitely able to move about whichever way.”

— Michael Chang

13. “Obviously the Asian American community wants you to do well. They are cheering you on no matter what the circumstances.”

— Michael Chang

14. “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

15. “I think Pete Sampras has really reached his peak. About the only thing he doesn’t do is cook.”

— Michael Chang

16. “I still have a belief and a faith that some great things are still going to happen in my career. If I didnt 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

17. “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

18. “I was always really strict on myself about doing everything possible to prepare for competition.”

— Michael Chang

19. “You know, I feel like if I don’t change something, then the results maybe are going to continue the way that they have. That for me is not something that I want to really be a part of.”

— Michael Chang

20. “For me, I think the Lord wanted me to win to put a smile on Chinese people’s faces.”

— Michael Chang

21. “All of the Spaniards are really talented. I don’t know what they eat.”

— Michael Chang

22. “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

23. “Seeing the Olympics come to China made me want to get more involved.”

— Michael Chang

24. “I am just trying to get biblically stronger.”

— Michael Chang

25. “I look at tennis as a bit of a platform to hopefully touch lives and encourage people.”

— Michael Chang

26. “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

27. “I am actually nondenominational.”

— Michael Chang

28. “I realize that I’m in the twilight of my career.”

— Michael Chang

29. “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

30. “I actually became a Christian in my rookie year on tour when I was 16 years old.”

— Michael Chang

31. “For me, at the French Open, if I wasn’t playing my match I was glued to CNN watching the events unfold.”

— Michael Chang

32. “That’s what really seems to be the more difficult aspect – to have the men break through and challenge the best players in the world.”

— Michael Chang

33. “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

34. “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