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As long as there's pasta and Chinese food in the world, I'm okay.

- Michael Chang

World, Pasta, Okay, Chinese

Obviously the Asian American community wants you to do well. They are cheering you on no matter what the circumstances.

- Michael Chang

Circumstances, Wants, Asian

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

Through, Back, I Think, Chances

As an athlete, I used my speed, agility and quickness to go out and play against the big guys.

- Michael Chang

Play, Athlete, Big, Big Guys

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

Kind, Torn, Months, Healed

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

Play, Maybe, Gotten, Why Not

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

Feet, Think, Needed, Blow

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

Work, Level, Going, Right Way

I was always really strict on myself about doing everything possible to prepare for competition.

- Michael Chang

Doing, Prepare, Always, Strict

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

Nature, Play, Against, Only Time

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

Behind, Like, Chasing, Grab

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

Game, Think, Circumstances, French

For me, at the French Open, if I wasn't playing my match I was glued to CNN watching the events unfold.

- Michael Chang

Match, CNN, French Open, French

It's not that easy for some of these players in China to get the coaching they need.

- Michael Chang

China, Need, Some, Coaching

Nearly all of these Chinese girls that have had success have had coaching from foreign coaches.

- Michael Chang

Success, Coaches, Chinese, Coaching

If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try, try, try again.

- Michael Chang

Succeed, Try, Again, If At First

For me, I think the Lord wanted me to win to put a smile on Chinese people's faces.

- Michael Chang

Think, I Think, Chinese, Faces

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

Need, Away, Maybe, Reevaluate

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

Proud, Play, Initial, Hopefully

I look at tennis as a bit of a platform to hopefully touch lives and encourage people.

- Michael Chang

Touch, Encourage, Lives, Hopefully

If you quit once, it's so much easier to quit the second, third, fourth time.

- Michael Chang

Easier, Once, Third, Fourth

All of the Spaniards are really talented. I don't know what they eat.

- Michael Chang

Know, Eat, Really, Talented

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

More, Asians, Whole, Tennis

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

My Life, Other, Against, Tennis

I see tendencies, I see body language.

- Michael Chang

See, I See, Tendencies, Body Language

I actually became a Christian in my rookie year on tour when I was 16 years old.

- Michael Chang

Year, Actually, Became, Tour

Seeing the Olympics come to China made me want to get more involved.

- Michael Chang

Seeing, China, Involved, Olympics

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

Through, Some, Persevere, Great Things

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

Like, Going, Maybe, Results

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

Through, More, Break, Aspect

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