Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Spanish athlete Garbine Muguruza.
Last updated on November 21, 2024.
Garbiñe Muguruza Blanco is a Spanish professional tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 1 by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), and a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 10. She has won ten singles titles, including two majors at the 2016 French Open and the 2017 Wimbledon Championships, and the 2021 WTA Finals.
All I want is to win matches, and the ranking sooner or later will come.
To have Serena in the Wimbledon final, I think, is the hardest match you can have.
I don't know a lot of people who achieve what they have really dreamed of as a little girl.
I didn't play juniors, really. I only played Roland Garros juniors and maybe some European tournaments.
It's so rewarding to succeed in what you like to do that you don't really think about what you have to give up.
I always travel with my coach and with my physio. And then when I'm in Europe, my parents, maybe they come to events.
Is very hard to find, like, a recipe to feel good fitness-wise, tennistically, mentally.
I let my racket do the talking.
This is just a 'Boom!' of energy for me to win a Grand Slam.
The first tournament I ever played, I won. I was six years old.
I think I'm always nervous, even if I play not on the center court.
It is a time for women's tennis to return to the light, as it were, and be on a par with men's tennis, which is at a very high level.
I like to dance to Latin music, like salsa, like reggaeton.
I've said before that when you win, people think it's so easy, but it's not so easy to handle it, and probably I expect myself to always play so good.
I prefer to be hunted compared to the other way around... I don't know how you say it.
If we push for the children to know tennis, they have the chance to like it.
My father is Spanish, and he went to Venezuela looking for a job. He was 20 something, and he fell in love with a Venezuelan girl. He owns a company there, producing iron and bronze.
I couldn't be accepted into tennis school because I was too young. I had to wait a year until I was four before they'd accept me.
It is hard because I have played since I was three years old, and everything is tennis, tennis. I am super-passionate about it. And I love it. But I always like to cook, I listen to music. I just try to be like a regular girl.
To be able to make other girls play - and hopefully in Latin America as well - is very important to me.
I'm happy that once again I see myself winning a Grand Slam, something that is so hard to do.
I like to have bright colors and to feel feminine on the court.
I was always following my brothers. If my brothers hadn't played, I never would have picked up a racket. Tennis isn't the most popular sport in Venezuela.
It's difficult to always perform well, to always go on the court and win and hit great shots. It takes a lot of time and a long learning process.
People only see two hours of a tennis match where you're fighting and running and sometimes getting upset. There's a lot more than those two hours. Going out there and playing is actually the easy part.
I don't have superstitions because I think sometimes they work against you because, if something happens to disturb them, you feel nervous.
I adapt more to the match for the second set.
Once you step on the court, you see the crowd, you see the final, you see I'm here playing another Wimbledon final.
I always come very motivated to the Grand Slams.
Tennis is what I've always wanted to do, so it is my dream to be on top.
New York is a very tricky city. I find it very noisy. It's a jungle, and it's very stressful at times, but I'm ready for it.
I started in a very small tennis club in a South American country where I never thought about becoming the best tennis player.
When I came to Spain, I joined a tennis academy, and that was where I learnt the game.
For me, it has an extra value to be able to beat the Williams sisters in the finals, because they are just so good. For me, it's proof of being literally the best player in the tournament.
I have routines but not superstitions.
I think people have this love-hate relationship with tennis. I also feel like that.
I try to focus on more winning matches here and try to go forward rather than the ranking because is the first step, to win matches, getting far in tournament, and we see after.
When you're tired, you say, 'Hey, I need to rest from tennis or something.'
I just thought at Wimbledon I was very nervous.
Sometimes when you go into the match, you want it so badly. I think sometimes is tricky. It makes you a little bit, like, tense and nervous.
After you win, people expect you to always play so good. When that doesn't happen, it's hard to deal with.
I learned that if you want something, you've got to really go for it, try to put the nerves aside.
When you win, everything is so beautiful, and when you don't, it's not, so everything is darker.
I go for my shots with no regrets, even if I play to the fence.
When I was young, I looked up to Martina Hingis.
The best thing is being part of history and achieving something you've dreamed of.
If you want to win a Grand Slam, when you dream, you say, 'I want Serena in the final.'
I was about three years old when I started playing in Venezuela with my two older brothers. They're 12 and 11 years older, so I was always the little one.
I grew up, and my body was not like a Spanish player. I was tall. I had a powerful game; my arms were long, so I'm like, 'No, you can't play like Spanish players.'
It's true that my body's not small and my style is not defensive. I am aggressive, and I am tall.
There's no room for being disappointed or for excuses, 'Oh, I had four match points.'
You can have a couple of games where you play bad or very good. I think I'm a type of player that days before I know how I feel, if I'm playing good, if I'm playing bad. This is not like lottery here.
The problem we have in the WTA circuit is that the girls do not have a good relationship because we play against each other, and it's a sport.
When a kid comes next to you, and she's like 'Ooh, one day I want to be like you!' you're like 'Wow, that's so nice to hear!'
I was like, 'Did I win Roland Garros? What happened?'
Once you taste the sweet honey, you want more of that.
I moved to Spain, and at all the tournaments I'd play, I would be really good in my age. That made me realize that I could be a pro.
I didn't do anything special after the French Open, after winning the tournament. I just had a nice dinner with my team and family, but I was so exhausted that I went to sleep early and couldn't stay up.
If I lose the first set, I still have two more. Let's not make a drama, you know.
When you're a kid and practice on clay, you're always, 'Oh, I wish I could win Roland Garros.'