Top 170 Quotes & Sayings by Andy Murray
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Last updated on September 7, 2024.
I've realised over the years I play my best when I have time to prepare for each tournament as best as possible.
I am Scottish. I am also British.
Having a normal knee would make life a lot easier.
If you want a player to serve and volley more, you need to teach them to do that more, how to move at the net.
It's easy to start over-thinking things and over-analysing things.
I am not anti-English, and I never was.
Like most guys, I've always liked watches. I can always check the time on my phone, but having a watch is so much better.
In tennis, it is not the opponent you fear, it is the failure itself, knowing how near you were but just out of reach.
You can't focus on other people's careers. Everybody is different.
When I'm training in December, I have to eat like 6,000 calories a day to maintain my weight. It's a bit tiring.
I am not stroppy at all.
For much of the year, you're just trying to maintain your fitness. It's not often you get a lot of time to really concentrate on improving it.
People say to me, 'You don't seem that interested in interviews.' Well, you know, I'm not, often. I'm not going to talk tactics with the press, so you are left with talking about how you are feeling; for me, it is not the most interesting thing to be doing.
When I lost the Wimbledon 2012 final, I didn't know if I'd ever win a slam.
When you have beaten guys a few times, you don't want them to think they know how you are going to play them. You have to try and find different ways of beating them. You have to do things they don't expect sometimes, put something unpredictable into your game.
You have to go into each match believing you can beat all of the players.
A lot of the players are very complimentary about each other; they embrace at the end of matches because the level of the tennis has been so good. I think that's something that tennis has got to be proud of.
Everybody always talks about the pressure of playing at Wimbledon, how tough it is, but the people watching make it so much easier to play.
I just enjoy watching tennis. And there's things that you can learn from the men's and the women's game.
I don't play any tournaments to come second best.
I used to think that losing made you more hungry and determined but after my success at the Olympics and the U.S. Open I realise that winning is the biggest motivation.
Everyone has to try to give back as much as possible because I think in all sports it helps kids to have role models or people to look up to. Someone like Jess Ennis, I know a lot of young girls have started to get into athletics stuff because of her, because of her success.
It's not the end of the world to lose.
Contrary to my image, I do have a sense of humour.
I believe you should give 100% on the court, so I chase every ball.
I've been asked a lot lately if tennis is clean or not. I don't know any more how you judge whether a sport is clean. If one in 100 players is doping, in my eyes that isn't a clean sport.
I think most players would love, at one stage in their career, to say, 'I've been No. 1 in the world.'
Well, my mum's been a tennis coach - she coached me till I was 12.
I tend not to argue about things that I don't believe in.
My speed is something that has made a difference to my whole career. When I've felt quick and I'm moving well, it makes a huge difference to my entire game. When I feel a bit slower, I end up doing a lot more defending. When I'm a bit quicker to the ball, I feel I can attack a lot more.
I don't want a flashy car, just something that would allow me to stop using the Tube. And it would be good not to have to rely on my mum all the time, particularly when I have to listen to her singing in her car.
My fitness trainer's English, my physio's English, some of my friends are English. I don't have a problem with English people at all.
For me, by far, the Olympics is the biggest sporting event in the world.
When I'm in Miami I like to go and watch basketball, the Miami Heat.
Everything in tennis is so neat and nice but boxing has sport down to its essence; it is very pure and I like that.
I feel like I'm more a fan of tennis rather than it being men's or women's. I enjoy watching doubles as well when it's on. I think that there are certain players that I enjoy watching on the men's and women's side. There's some players that I don't enjoy watching on both sides.
A lot of athletes use sports psychologists.
You are always talking about yourself and tennis and how you are feeling. I try to avoid it when I don't have to.
I love music. I listen to a lot of it.
I've never felt nervous in front of big crowds and in big stadiums.
Boxers risk a lot in the ring. That's one of the things that attracts me to it. You want to see a knockout but I also really don't want to see people get hurt. It's this constant dilemma when I'm watching boxing. The only times I get nervous is watching a really big fight or when my brother is playing. I get to the stage where I'm actually shaking.
Wimbledon, for me, is the most important tournament of the year, so you know there's always going to be people expecting me to do well.
Getting married is great, and I feel really good away from the court, and my private life and stuff is good. But you still need to train and work hard. Like, I didn't go on a honeymoon after we got married; I went to Barcelona and trained for 10 days to get ready for the clay-court season. It's been good, but you still have to put the work in.
I'm definitely open to change, but at the same time I am quite stubborn.
To be honest, I think bananas are a pathetic fruit.
Boxing, mixed martial arts and tennis are the hardest sports to train for.
When I'm at home, I enjoy going go-karting.
When a lot of things are going the wrong way for a country, for a people, when you can't really think of anything worse than a war, you always try to take life on the brighter side and that's how I grew up with my parents.
I never read. The paper or anything. I watch a lot of movies, and TV series and stuff. But I never, never read.
I hate losing.
Normally I sleep for 9, 10 hours a night.
Obviously you try to keep as much of your private life as private as you can.
The only pressure I feel is the pressure I put on myself to win.
Tennis is an individual sport, and I am quite a self-conscious person.
I play fantasy basketball and fantasy football, soccer.
There is a fear of emotion in tennis.
One of the things I would have loved to have had was a family that worked better together, although I love my mother and father to bits.
I do think your personal life has an impact on your tennis. If your private life is up and down, and you're thinking about what is going on back home, then you aren't solely focused on your job, but when things are good back home, it's so much easier when you're on court. It's not necessarily marriage; it's more having a stable relationship.
Sometimes you're looking to play perfect tennis but it's not going to happen all the time and you have to accept it.
I don't actually go to that many concerts.
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