Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Madison Keys

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Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Madison Keys is an American professional tennis player. She has been ranked as high as world No. 7 by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), a ranking she first achieved in October 2016. Keys has played in one Grand Slam tournament final at the 2017 US Open, competed at the 2016 WTA Finals, and was a semifinalist at the 2016 Summer Olympics. She has won six WTA tournaments, five of which were at the Premier level, and she achieved her biggest title at the 2019 Cincinnati Masters, a Premier 5 event.

American - Athlete | Born: February 17, 1995

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I think I'll always consider the Quad Cities home.

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Being able to rely on the matches I've won - at first they surprised me - but I've slowly been able to build confidence.

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I think it's especially hard when you start at an academy, because everything is decided for you. And then when you go with U.S.T.A., there's only so many decisions you can make.

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My nerves tend to dissipate once the match starts. When I know I've practiced as much as I can and I do my best and leave it all out there, I feel OK no matter what happens.

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I think when you're younger and you're watching people play on TV, you always say that you want to be at the French Open - you want to be playing Grand Slams. But then actually being there doing it, it kind of blows you away thinking, Wow, I actually used to think maybe I could do that one day, and now I'm actually doing it.

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On those days when you don't want to get up, I think, I'm going to get through my entire practice without saying how tired I am or I try not to complain just because I was in a bad mood when I woke up. Even if it's not perfect and I slip up, I can catch myself and make myself of aware of where my mental space is at and move on.

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I definitely have been working a lot on the mental side of my game.

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Being away from the game and just remembering why I love competing and all of that, I think it helped me tremendously.

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I'm not the best at hiding my emotions.

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Sometimes I have lapses of attention, and I can lose some points very quickly.

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My youngest sister does not like tennis at all, and she'll be the first one to tell you that, which I find pretty funny.

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Serena's always been one of the best, and she will forever be one of the best tennis players in women's tennis.

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I think the biggest thing is knowing that those thoughts of panic are probably going to go into your brain, and just accepting it... So that's been the biggest thing. Not fighting it and trying to think I'm going to have the perfect mentality the entire time. That's not going to happen.

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I really wanted a tennis dress. My parents told me that if I played, they would buy me one. I was like, 'Hey, I'll try it.'

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The expectation from other people kind of gets on me.

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Sometimes I have lapses of attention, and I can lose some points very quickly - that's been a big thing for him.

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When you're 13 or 14, sometimes you wake up in a bad place. You feel like everything's out of your control. You don't know what to do.

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The second I was on the tennis court, I had the structure I wanted. I was in complete control of what I was doing.

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I've tried my best to be a good role model for my two younger sisters.

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Accept others for their differences, what makes them different. That's what makes the world the world.

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We do get to do what we love. I think that's really special, and I think sometimes we get really caught up in the winning and the losing and rankings. And at the end of the day, we get to play a sport that we love for our jobs.

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It wasn't until people started asking me what my plans were for the future - if I would go to college or go pro - that it really hit me what I wanted to do. I decided I wanted to go pro and try to be in Wimbledon.

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I think it's definitely hard for the people who just out of nowhere come in and they do really well and all of the sudden the spotlight is on them.

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It can be tough and lonely on the road, but at the end of the day we get to play professional tennis for a living, and I wouldn't change it for the world.

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I don't really identify myself as white or African-American. I'm just me. I'm Madison.

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I would like to think I can win a trophy or two, but the main thing for me is to focus on consistency.

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Since I came on the tour so young and I won my first match, I've had a lot of comments like 'You'll be a top player one day.' I got to the point where, as nice as it was to hear that, I almost stopped listening to it. I was almost putting added pressure on myself.

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Sometimes it takes work to find a great group of friends whom you feel super comfortable and confident with.

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There's just so much girl-on-girl hate. It happens to start in high school, and then it builds and gets bigger and bigger, and it seems like for some reason there's this mentality that if another girl does well, she's taking my spot.

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It was tough because I was on the road so much, on top of everything. I went through what every girl goes through emotionally in life, going through high school. It wasn't easy.

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Being an American, we're very lucky that all of the attention is very rarely just on one person. Unless you're Serena - then it's on you all the time.

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Love' is a big step. It's a big word. You have to work your way to it.

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I could go through my Twitter account right now and there would be 10 horrible messages.

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I think my biggest thing is learning when to hit which serve when, not doing the exact same thing over and over. Because O.K., great, it's 120 miles per hour, but they're standing right there, and they just block it back.

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My first U.S. Open main draw, it was a big stadium and I wasn't really used to it.

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My priority when I get off the plane and get to a city is get situated at the hotel and then go on site and get a good practice in. Sometimes working out can help with getting over jet lag as well.

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Everyone else wants to hear 'I wanna be Top 5,' or 'I want to be winning a Grand Slam.' Those are all goals of mine, but I'm not going to put a time limit on them.

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Both of my grandmothers have always been really good bakers, and I was always in the kitchen helping them. Obviously I can't eat a lot of the things that I make, but just baking it and giving it to someone makes me feel really good.

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I don't really focus on other people's expectations of me. I only care what my own expectations are.

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I always watched these tournaments and want to be seeded and get the bye and be in the second week of Slams and all that.

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Every single day, my parents fed me balls. Eventually it turned into having a coach, and then it went to being at an academy. You know, it worked out pretty well.

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I think I have slowly kind of had my name out there a little bit more and had some success.

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I always travel with a cashmere blanket - I take it everywhere with me!

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No one who has gotten second place at a Grand Slam is ever like, 'Yeah, now I feel fine about it.' Everyone wants the other trophy. But it inspires you to work harder and get yourself in that position again so that you can use what you've learned.

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When people say that American tennis is dead and things like that, you kind of take it a little personal.

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There is nothing like Wimbledon. When I think about tennis, I think about this tournament.

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Wimbledon just is the epitome of tennis.

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If you're not in my immediate circle, you're not someone whose opinion I value.

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I've been on my own and traveling for years now.

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I know it's a cheesy thing to say, but I just want everyone to be able to get along.

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You can almost get overwhelmed if you start focusing on Serena being on the other side of the court.

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I can play the No. 1 player in the world in a pretty close match.

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It's not the end of the world if I lose. I try to keep it all in perspective.

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When I have a nice rhythm going, and I have my toss in the right spot, when everything is kind of working how it's supposed to be, I think it's just really easy, you know, and I don't have to overthink on it.

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For me it's just never being satisfied with what I've done and always just wanting more and more.

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Setting a goal, accomplishing it, and feeling good about yourself can help build confidence and perseverance.

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I will never be able to say 'Yeah, O.K., I'm good,' you know? I will always want more, and more, and more.

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It's one of those things where eventually in your career, it kind of switches from being the young up-and-comer to someone who has had results and the other person is trying to raise their level to play. I think it's a privilege.

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I think when I start thinking about results, I stop playing the right way because I start getting too nervous.

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I was getting, at like 18, 'Why haven't you won a Grand Slam yet?'

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