Kim Clijsters Tennis Quotations

All my time in rehab has made me appreciate tennis more than ever.

It makes you also realize, 'OK, I'm excited to play tennis, and I work really hard to be the best tennis player I think I can be,' but I don't waste my time on stupid stuff, you know what I mean.

She just played great tennis, ... I don't think I played my best tennis in any of those matches. But tomorrow has nothing to do with those matches.

For me, tennis is important but it's not the most important thing in my life.

Today I definitely didn't feel like I was playing my best tennis but I was doing enough to get through quite comfortably.

It can change so quickly. That was the frustrating part. I felt like I was controlling the rallies in the first and the beginning of the second set, and all of a sudden you just lose all the feeling of your strokes. That's tennis sometimes.

Playing here is the best feeling I have ever had on a tennis court.

I wasn't playing my best tennis at all for a set and a half, but I was still fighting. I was defending well and I think that's kept me in a lot of games. We had a lot of long rallies, and I think that got her tired.

Well, I didn't do too bad the tournaments after that, ... But I felt like I played well that match. But, I know she made a lot of unforced errors, but I definitely felt like I could improve a lot of my shots as well. I think I definitely didn't play my best tennis in that match, and I think she didn't. I know she didn't. So, it's give and take.

So no tennis for the moment, but lots of treatment and massage.

I'm not really playing for the money, ... I just really want to go out there and have fun. Since my injury, playing tennis means so much more because I really missed it when I couldn't do it last year. I'm just happy to be back and playing as well as I am.

I know that I'm not going to get tired if I have to play a third set, and that's a great feeling to have -- knowing that that's not going to be a problem for me. I can go out there and play that third set, knowing that it's going to take my opponent to play good tennis to beat me.

I don't think either of us played our best tennis today. My footwork and movement was not as it should be and I made a few unforced errors but that's tennis.

You don't have to hate your opponents to beat them.