Motivation Quote by Martina Hingis

Hingis drops this line with the breezy candor of someone who’s spent her whole life being talked about as much as she’s been watched. It’s a list, not a manifesto: baseball, hockey, tennis, horseback riders. That offhand “Right now” is the tell. Desire here is treated like form, not fate - seasonal, flexible, allowed to shift without apology. For a female athlete, especially one marketed early as a prodigy and packaged for public consumption, that’s quietly defiant.

The humor is in the mismatch between how tabloids want romance to sound (destiny, drama, confession) and how she frames it: like preferences in sports programming. It’s flirty and slightly deadpan, a way to control the temperature of the room. By naming “tennis players” alongside other sports, she collapses the boundary between her professional world and her personal life, but does it on her terms, reducing the interview’s oxygen supply for scandal.

The subtext is also about power and peerhood. She’s not listing “types” in a purely aesthetic sense; she’s naming people whose lives are built around training, competition, travel, bodies under pressure. Even “horseback riders” signals something beyond celebrity: money, discipline, risk, a niche confidence. It’s less “who do you date?” than “who speaks my language?”

In the Hingis era - when women in tennis were routinely asked to perform femininity as part of the job - this kind of toss-off specificity works as armor. It’s a wink that keeps the audience entertained while keeping her private life unowned.