30 Motivational Naomi Osaka Quotes

The Japanese tennis player Naomi Osaka competes professionally at the international level.

She is the first Asian sports player to occupy the top singles position, according to the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) rankings. The date of birth of Naomi Osaka is October 16, 1997, while the place of her birth is Chūō-Ku, Osaka, Japan.

Naomi Osaka was born to Tamaki Osaka and Leonard François. Naomi Osaka has an elder sister, Mari, who used to play tennis professionally.

Osaka's family relocated from Japan to Elmont, New York, on Long Island when Naomi Osaka was only three years old. Watching the Williams sisters participate at the 1999 French Open motivated her father to start teaching his girls how and when to play tennis. As soon as Naomi and Mari arrived in America, he began instructing them.

When Naomi Osaka was eight or nine, her family relocated to Florida to provide them with better training possibilities in 2006. Osaka's parents agreed that their daughter would play for Japan even though she was schooled in the US.

Famous Naomi Osaka Quotes

Here are some famous Naomi Osaka quotes.

"I've been always following people and blueprints of people, and now I feel like I didn't really find a lane that I liked, and I was at a standstill. And then I found that you have to make your own path."

"For so long, I've tied winning to my worth as a person. So what am I if I'm not a good tennis player?"

"For me, as long as my family's happy, I'm happy."

"I feel like I play better when I'm calm. There is an inner peace I can tap into sometimes during my matches. "

"I can't let myself act immature, in a way."

"When I play my match, everything else is completely not in my mind anymore."

"When I shook her hand, I saw that she was tearing up. I wanted her to have her head high, not walk off the court sad... to be aware that she's accomplished so much and she's still so young. I just want her to take care of herself."

"Ever since I can remember, I played better against bigger players on bigger courts."

Inspirational Naomi Osaka Quotes

Here are some inspirational Naomi Osaka quotes.

"Even when I was a little kid, I always dreamed that I would play Serena in a final of a Grand Slam."

"Everyone around me has more confidence in me than I do in myself."

"You can easily get depressed. Usually, if you play sports, you think that one match or one game is very important, and when you lose it, you think your whole world is over."

"I feel like I’m a child of the Internet, and the Internet has raised me, and its jokes might not be appropriate at certain times. So, I keep them locked inside."

"Every day, he has something new to say, like, he wins and then he’s, like, ‘Because of you guys I have the energy’, the sarcasm is beautiful."

"I don’t think you can win a Grand Slam and not be confident in yourself."

"So many people have told my dad that I would never be anything. I just started writing a list of all historic things that I could possibly do."

"I don't know if anybody knows this, but Serena's my favorite player. Just playing against her is kind of like a dream for me, so I'm very grateful that I was able to play her, and it's even better that I was able to win."

(Naomi Osaka plays for Japan and is a right-handed player.)

Naomi Osaka Quotes About Tennis

Here are some Naomi Osaka quotes about tennis.

"I don't really know what feeling Japanese or Haitian or American is supposed to feel like. I just feel like me. Naomi Osaka."

"You just gotta keep going and fighting for everything, and one day you’ll get to where you want."

"For me, every practice and match I’ve played, it feels like the year is short and long at the same time. I’m aware of all the work I put in."

"In a perfect dream, things would be set exactly the way you would want them. But I think it’s more interesting that in real life, things aren’t exactly the way you planned."

"It's not necessarily the best situation for me to try to hug someone unless I really know them. And I don't really know anybody, so."

"I didn't play that well, but honestly, I think at a time like this with that scoreline, I would usually feel very depressed and sad."

"For me, I think this was the most focused I've been since Australia, so, sorry for playing you with this type of mentality."

More Naomi Osaka Quotes

Here are some more fascinating Naomi Osaka quotes.

"You can easily get depressed. Usually, if you play sports, you think that one match or one game is very important, and when you lose it, you think your whole world is over."

"Most people know me for U.S. Open, right? And during U.S. Open, I didn’t show any emotions most of the time. But then after that, I did show – well, in my opinion, it was a lot of emotions. I got upset, and then I threw my racket or stuff like that."

"How I came this far is a miracle but you can too."

"If there is one positive thing I can say about myself, it’s that I learn quickly, so, for me it has been fun because I like to apply what I did wrong in the past, and I think that is what I was able to do today."

"I'm not really the type that spends money on myself.

"When you’re little, you’re taught not to look at, like, if your opponent gets angry or anything."

"My mum has sacrificed a lot for me, and it means a lot for her to come and watch my matches."