Ivan Lendl Quotations

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.

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

But it's very difficult, I can tell you I played the Czech Open a few times and it's very difficult just to go on to a scene where the course is prepared differently when the greens are fast and he's not used to it and they're hard as a rock and he's not used to it.

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

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.

I don't make a habit of watching tennis matches, but I try to watch all the major finals. I try to make time for that. So unless I have something going with the kids where I can't, I try to watch, and I enjoy that.

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

Once you win, you have no doubt that you can win. So you have gone through it once, and you can do it again.

Tennis is basically a game where you try to create an opportunity for yourself to finish the point, because you can't wait for the opponent to miss anymore. Well, if you create an opportunity and don't take advantage of it, you let the opponent back to even, then you are just starting the point over, so you have to take advantage of them.

You know, you just go out there, do your best. Sometimes it's good enough and sometimes it is, and sometimes it stays your only one and sometimes you win bunch others behind it.

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

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

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.

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

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

Too many people asking too many questions in tennis. Golf is better.

Because in order to beat Jimmy, I had to get around the ball a little bit quicker so I wasn't always on defensive and catching the ball on last stride, that I had little more time. Once I was able to get little bit quicker, then it has helped me a lot.

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.

I just travel all the time. And I was just looking at the schedules now and starting the first week of October I will be every weekend with somebody at tournaments through Christmas. So it gets very difficult to just go away and not do that.

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.

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.

Many tennis coaches are enablers. They need the job more than the player needs the coach, and if the coach needs the job more than the player needs the coach, he can't effect change.

You can never guarantee the wins but you can guarantee that you give it 100%. That way you can always look back and feel comfortable, as a player or a coach.

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

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

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

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 think if you look at Andre then and now, you look at two different models. Of course it's personal preference, I think Andre now is a great role model for the kids. He has started training differently than he was before, and so on and so on.

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.

Many Czech people are very talented. They can do many things, but when they get to a certain level, they are satisfied. I am not like that, thank God.

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.

Olympic gold is obviously right up there with a grand slam. It's a big win. You can say it's more, you can say it's less, you can say it's equal. It's very much up there.

I don't know what to say, ... It has been a fantastic run. I enjoyed playing here.

Every time I won the Grand Slam for the first time, it's more special than the others, and the ones behind that were not too shabby either.

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It was good, ... I played well, pretty consistent.

It's a great honor. This is a tournament I have always played well at, and probably my best Grand Slam. So it's a great honor, and I'm looking forward to it.

I played for the first time in nine years about three weeks ago, ... It was interesting.

Grass? Give me a bucket of balls and a sand wedge. Sure I like grass.

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.

I just travel all the time.

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

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

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

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

He's a haircut and a forehand.