Motivation Quote by Gabriela Sabatini

It is not a poetic sentence, and that is the point: Sabatini is talking like an elite athlete in the middle of the job, where emotions are treated as real-time data. "Feeling a lot of confidence" reads less like self-congratulation than like a scouting report on her own mental state. Confidence here is temporary, almost meteorological, something that rolls in, peaks, and can vanish if you hesitate or overthink. The phrasing "take advantage of that" gives it a hard, pragmatic edge: she is not waiting for inspiration; she is exploiting a window.

The subtext is about momentum, but not the cartoon version. In tennis, confidence is a feedback loop: you swing freer, you commit earlier, you choose higher-percentage aggression, and the court suddenly looks wider. When that loop is active, the worst move is to interrupt it - to slow down, reset, or play "not to lose". "Keep playing" signals a refusal to cede control to nerves, commentators, or the next game's imaginary consequences. It is an insistence on continuity.

Contextually, Sabatini belonged to an era where women's tennis was getting louder, stronger, and more psychologically legible, with athletes increasingly asked to narrate their inner life on command. This line delivers that inner life without melodrama. It frames confidence as a skill you manage, not a personality trait you possess, and it hints at the professional ruthlessness beneath her famously composed public image: when the edge arrives, you press.