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A good athlete always mentally replays a competition over and over, even in victory, to see what might be done to improve the performance the next time.

I love competing against the best players. I have a huge challenge, and that's to win a U.S. Open and complete the Grand Slam. I enjoy that challenge. Every year it comes around, I get excited to try to conquer that opportunity. I love it.

If you got anything to you at all as an athlete and a competitor, you don't care what the circumstances are. You still got competition.

I mean, as an athlete, as a competitor, you have to have that belief in yourself.

I've been an athlete and competitor my whole life, and there's nothing more that I get off on than competition.

For every athlete, it is very important to be able to engage in their favorite thing, give all the best in training, performing in competitions, defending the honor of the motherland.

I want to see where I measure up against everyone in the world and everyone who has ever competed in the sport, and there's that innate sense of wanting to challenge myself. I'm competitive in all aspects.

As an athlete, you figure you work your whole life to have what you have, and to be able to show the world what you have and how proud you are of it, that's always fun.

I love competing.

I love competing. I love a challenge. I love going in and showing people what I can do, proving to them that I can get this part, that I can give you what you want.