Heather Watson Quotes

The more experience you got the more things you are able to go through, and the ups and downs through a season that you had I don't think it can do anything but make you that much better.

I don't particularly like talking about it much, but after a year of struggling, when you start playing better, you have a much better perspective on the game.

Experience is everything. It means so much because it enabled me to learn the game even faster. Playing in the playoffs is the best basketball in the world, and if you can learn under that pressure, succeed under that pressure, it gives you more confidence the next year.

I think it helps me. You know, I've got two more meets under my belt, and that's always a good thing.

Through the years I've been getting better and better and better, and it's what you learn though the seasons.

You only get better by playing.

When I'm playing my best, like I was at the U.S. Open, I feel on top of the match and able to do exactly what I want. There are other times when you're not in control, but that is tennis and you have momentum changes in every single match.

You have to grow thick skin and that only comes with time and learning.

I feel like I've reached an age where I can relax a little bit with the knowledge of what I've been through, take all that experience and use it. I love the challenge of trying to get back to where I've been, and beyond it.

As you get older and gain more experience, you're able to do multiple things. You don't necessarily have to focus so hard on your performance in order to have a good one.

In training, you can push yourself to the limit and test yourself against the best players in the world. That is when the pressure is really on, and they are the moments when you either improve, or you don't.

Winning matches on any surface will definitely give you a much larger element of trust in what you're doing.

It comes with experience and learning and knowing the game. It's not necessarily about sticking your chest out and saying, 'I'm tough.'

You get better as the rounds go on.

I learn from each match that I have, especially when it's a different opponent.

If you start badly, and the crowd get on your case, there is no way back. But if you start well and your confidence is high all that booing becomes music to your ears.

I still feel pressure - I'm sure everyone who plays feels pressure - but I don't feel it as much now as when I was younger.

Every time you learn you can do something, you can go a little bit faster next time.

I've made game-winners, I've missed game-winners. I've pitched shutouts, and I've given up 10 runs. You just deal with the experiences and learn how to get over the bad outings and learn from them, so they don't occur time and time again. You take what you did right from the good games and turn those into, 'How do I repeat that success?'

A lot of passes that I throw, some of them are kind of thread-the-needle type of passes, and I know Year 1 or Year 2 Bam wouldn't have done that. But you've gotta take the leash off the dog. What's scarier, a dog with a leash walking with a person or a dog with nobody around him?

For me, whether we win or lose, every match is giving me a lot of information about how to improve.

I'm feeling better every race; it's just about staying in it and continuing to push to learn, and I don't doubt it will come.

I'm no different than anyone. If you get more games, you're in the rhythm; that gives you confidence.

I don't think there is a role that I did twenty years ago that I couldn't do better now.

There's always a level where you think you can improve and do better. Certainly at the beginning... I did four years of straight theater without ever having a part in a movie, and I remember being far more nervous on a film set than I was on the stage. It took a while for that to become less so.