Ivan Lendl Quotes

If I don't practice the way I should, then I won't play the way that I know I can.

If you lose, it hurts, but as long as you have fought hard, you can still feel good about yourself.

If you become great, then you can become happy. If you're happy first, it's much more difficult to be great.

He's a haircut and a forehand.

In tennis you move a lot. Golf you dont. In tennis, you can have a bad half-hour, but you cant in golf. You can lose the first set in tennis and still win.

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 was between 2 and 3 in the world for two, three years. That's not exactly where I wanted to be.

I believe the brain is like a muscle - like any other it can be improved.

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.

I got bad calls every match, and I never got an apology. So I thought it was rather strange.

My serve and my forehand I pretty much always had, but my backhand was a made backhand. I worked on it for years.

I just travel all the time.

If you look at any superior athlete, you will find a strong parental influence. Parents introduce their children to a sport, and then they support them.

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.

I have seriously thought about retiring, but that was on a good day. On a bad day I've thought about killing myself.

Don't mistake activity for achievement - practice the right way. - John Wooden I only play well when I'm prepared. If I don't practice the way I should, then I won't play the way that I know I can.

I am not playing Wimbledon because I am allergic to grass.

I certainly don't lose any sleep if I lose a tennis match.

What I like about golf is there are no bad calls.

You know how kids are. They like to do what parents do.

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.

People may say I developed an iron will, but what really happened is that I made myself much fitter. I think an iron will is always supported by fitness.

It's flattering to be compared in any way to Tiger Woods, because he's the best player in the world.

I enjoy life. I always enjoy jokes.

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.

You have to focus on the process. You cannot be glued to the results.

I'm certainly not sorry that there were some things I missed. You may think you're missing something at that time but later when you look at it, you didn't miss anything.

But to be fair, if you take players from my era to now, the game has changed and the players have many more shots. They use them differently than we did. The speed of the game has changed.

Not winning at Wimbledon is not going to bother me forever.

Many times the players get in there and it's just about as well as they could have done, and other times they get in there and they favorites and they don't win.