Ivan Lendl Quotes

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.
Ivan Lendl

Time, Sorry, May

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.
Ivan Lendl

Time, Around, Able

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.
Ivan Lendl

Rock, Hard, Difficult

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.
Ivan Lendl

Game, Fair, Players

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

Sleep, Lose, Tennis

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.
Ivan Lendl

Time, Enjoy, Try

I enjoy life. I always enjoy jokes.
Ivan Lendl

Life, Enjoy, Jokes

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

Bad, Thought, Strange

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.
Ivan Lendl

Time, Christmas, Travel

I like to compete.
Ivan Lendl

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.
Ivan Lendl

Great, Different, Two

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.
Ivan Lendl

Work, Hard, Together

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

Two, Between, Wanted

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

Play, Won, Practice

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

Great, Happy, Become

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.
Ivan Lendl

Movies, School, Two

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.
Ivan Lendl

Strong, Children, Parents

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

Good, Yourself, Long

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.
Ivan Lendl

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

Best, Player, Tiger

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.
Ivan Lendl

Work, Nice, Hard

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.
Ivan Lendl

God, Level, Satisfied

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.
Ivan Lendl

Change, Job, Needs

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.
Ivan Lendl

Done, Win, Times

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

Made, Pretty, Worked

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Nationality: Czechoslovakian

Born: March 7, 1960

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