If I don’t practice the way I should, then I won’t play the way that I know I can.
He’s a haircut and a forehand.
If you lose, it hurts, but as long as you have fought hard, you can still feel good about yourself.
Too many people asking too many questions in tennis. Golf is better.
Tennis is not like other sports where the coach is hired by an independent entity, and that makes a huge difference in the dynamic.
If you go to school and practice for five days a week, it still gives you two days you can go and see your friends, you can go to the movies, you do whatever you like to do.
Once you win, you have no doubt that you can win. So you have gone through it once, and you can do it again.
I think talent is dangerous to have if you take it for granted. If you use it well and put hard work with it together, it’s hard to catch that guy. And I think that’s what you’re seeing right now.
You know how kids are. They like to do what parents do.
I have seriously thought about retiring, but that was on a good day. On a bad day I’ve thought about killing myself.
My serve and my forehand I pretty much always had, but my backhand was a made backhand. I worked on it for years.
I certainly don’t lose any sleep if I lose a tennis match.
It’s very nice to see when somebody who wanted to work hard and is willing to put the work in gets rewarded for it.
When I lose, it doesn’t just go to my head; it goes to my heart too. If you’re at all in the match, if you love to play and ein, it must go to your heart.
If you become great, then you can become happy. If you’re happy first, it’s much more difficult to be great.