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" 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
People
Chance
Better
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Story
" Honestly, I'm more into the computer, the Internet, and checking out scores or the news. "
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Computer
Internet
" I was always at peace because of the way my mom treated me. "
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Me
" I still speak Czech with my parents because I was born there. "
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Parents
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" Sometimes you want to make your own experiences. "
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Want
" The older you get, the more you learn. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I've lived for 10 years in Switzerland, so I speak German. "
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Switzerland
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" I didn't have the same fitness or ability as the other girls, so I had to beat them with my mind. "
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Mind
Had
" 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. "
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Lucky
" 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. "
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Time
True
Important
" 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. "
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Reason
Weather