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" My serve and my forehand I pretty much always had, but my backhand was a made backhand. I worked on it for years. "
Ivan Lendl
Pretty
Always
Years
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" You know how kids are. They like to do what parents do. "
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" Not winning at Wimbledon is not going to bother me forever. "
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" 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. "
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" If I don't practice the way I should, then I won't play the way that I know I can. "
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" 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. "
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" Tennis is not like other sports where the coach is hired by an independent entity, and that makes a huge difference in the dynamic. "
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" 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. "
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" In tennis you move a lot. Golf you don't. In tennis, you can have a bad half-hour, but you can't in golf. You can lose the first set in tennis and still win. "
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" 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. "
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Time
" If you lose, it hurts, but as long as you have fought hard, you can still feel good about yourself. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Look
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Support
" Too many people asking too many questions in tennis. Golf is better. "
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Golf
People
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" You have to focus on the process. You cannot be glued to the results. "
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Cannot
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" I enjoy life. I always enjoy jokes. "
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Always
Jokes
Life
" I got bad calls every match, and I never got an apology. So I thought it was rather strange. "
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Never
Bad
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" I was between 2 and 3 in the world for two, three years. That's not exactly where I wanted to be. "
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" 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. "
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" I certainly don't lose any sleep if I lose a tennis match. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I like to compete. "
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Compete
" 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. "
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Difficult
You
Rock
" Once you win, you have no doubt that you can win. So you have gone through it once, and you can do it again. "
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