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I am actually nondenominational.
Michael Chang / Tennis Player
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I see tendencies, I see body language.
Michael Chang / Tennis Player
Body
Body Language
Language
Tendencies
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I am just trying to get biblically stronger.
Michael Chang / Tennis Player
Stronger
Trying
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I realize that I'm in the twilight of my career.
Michael Chang / Tennis Player
Careers
Realizing
Twilight
Realize
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If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try, try, try again.
Michael Chang / Tennis Player
Succeed
Again
If At First
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As long as there's pasta and Chinese food in the world, I'm okay.
Michael Chang / Tennis Player
Chinese
Chinese Food
Long
Okay
Pasta
World
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Seeing the Olympics come to China made me want to get more involved.
Michael Chang / Tennis Player
China
Made
Olympics
Want
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All of the Spaniards are really talented. I don't know what they eat.
Michael Chang / Tennis Player
Knows
Spaniards
Talented
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If you quit once, it's so much easier to quit the second, third, fourth time.
Michael Chang / Tennis Player
Easier
Fourth
Quitting
Thirds
Quit
Third
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My knee feels good right now. I am definitely able to move about whichever way.
Michael Chang / Tennis Player
Feel Good
Knees
Moving
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I actually became a Christian in my rookie year on tour when I was 16 years old.
Michael Chang / Tennis Player
Christian
Rookies
Years
Rookie
Tour
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For me, I think the Lord wanted me to win to put a smile on Chinese people's faces.
Michael Chang / Tennis Player
Smile
Chinese
Faces
Lord
People
Thinking
Winning
Smile Me People
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It's not that easy for some of these players in China to get the coaching they need.
Michael Chang / Tennis Player
China
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I look at tennis as a bit of a platform to hopefully touch lives and encourage people.
Michael Chang / Tennis Player
Looks
People
Tennis
Touch
Platform
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It has been a difficult road this year, but still I look at every day as a new opportunity.
Michael Chang / Tennis Player
Opportunity
Difficult
Looks
Years
Been
Year
Every
Day
Every Day
Still
Look
Road
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I think Pete Sampras has really reached his peak. About the only thing he doesn't do is cook.
Michael Chang / Tennis Player
Cooks
Tennis
Thinking
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As an athlete, I used my speed, agility and quickness to go out and play against the big guys.
Michael Chang / Tennis Player
Agility
Athlete
Big Guys
Quickness
Speed
Guys
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Nearly all of these Chinese girls that have had success have had coaching from foreign coaches.
Michael Chang / Tennis Player
Chinese
Coaches
Nearly
Foreign
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I was always really strict on myself about doing everything possible to prepare for competition.
Michael Chang / Tennis Player
Competition
Strict
Prepare
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For me, at the French Open, if I wasn't playing my match I was glued to CNN watching the events unfold.
Michael Chang / Tennis Player
Cnn
Events
Ifs
French
Glued
Match
Unfold
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Obviously the Asian American community wants you to do well. They are cheering you on no matter what the circumstances.
Michael Chang / Tennis Player
Asian
Cheer
Circumstances
Community
Cheering
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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 / Tennis Player
Blow
Court
Feet
Legs
Preparation
Thinking
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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 / Tennis Player
Men
Aspect
Break Through
Player
Best Men World
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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 / Tennis Player
Levels
Right Way
Training
Want
Work Way Hard
Improve
Level
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The first initial feeling, at least for me, was to go out and play well and hopefully win and have the Asian community be even more proud.
Michael Chang / Tennis Player
Initial
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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 / Tennis Player
Basketball
Tennis
World
World See More
Asians
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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 / Tennis Player
Mom
Competition
Competitive Person
Only Time
Play
Against
Competitive
Match
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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 / Tennis Player
Different
Light
Trying
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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 / Tennis Player
Doctors
Flexibility
Healed
Little Bit
Littles
Months
Percent
Torn
Uncommon
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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 / Tennis Player
Able
Circumstances
Games
Thinking
Allowed
Characteristic
French
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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 / Tennis Player
Dream
Running
Chasing
Range
Trying
Grab
Onto
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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 / Tennis Player
Opportunity
Past
Thinking
Chances
Failed
Missed
Opportunities
Past Few Years
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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 / Tennis Player
Desire
Giving
People
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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 / Tennis Player
Results
Want
Way
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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 / Tennis Player
Inspirational
Success
Sports
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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 / Tennis Player
Numbers
Thinking
Tournaments
Trying
Aspects
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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 / Tennis Player
Struggle
Tennis
Affect
Life Personality I Am
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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 / Tennis Player
Attitude
Past
Tennis
Why Not
Winning
Anybody
Shot
Close
Gotten
In The Past
Tournament
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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 / Tennis Player
Change
Needs
Thinker
Too Much
Plugging
Reevaluate
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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 / Tennis Player
Believe
Careers
Want
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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 / Tennis Player
Belief
Great Things
Persevere
Time God Faith
God Faith Time
No Sense
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I got comments about being too small, too short, there haven't been any Asian players and who am I to go out there and turn pro before my 16th birthday? And that's all good and fine. People want to have their comments and their opinions. Ultimately, you do what you believe in your heart. I think for me, things turned out OK.
Michael Chang / Tennis Player
Believe
Heart
Player
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Michael Chang / Tennis Player
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