Top 92 Quotes & Sayings by Bernard Tomic
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Last updated on September 17, 2024.
I worked 10 hours a day with my father, having no money in our life from the age of eight to 15. We were driving a $500 car to now having millions and earning millions at 24, having houses all over the world.
For sure, I don't do the right work but I feel holding a trophy or doing well doesn't satisfy me any more.
I am always ready, willing and able to play for Australia.
I think there are a lot of good players in the top 20, top 30 that are top-10 players. You got to get there. You got to earn it.
My goal is to be the best and I'm working for that day to come.
I just count money, that's all I do. I count my millions.
Sometimes you're less prepared, and you do well.
I couldn't care less if I make a fourth-round U.S. Open or I lose first round. To me, everything is the same.
I think the main thing is I'm doing what I love and I really respect the sport.
I'm not the best. I'm not the brightest, but we all have our problems.
I didn't come from a rich family. We had no money. And now living in all these lavish houses and property around the world, it's my choice. It's something that I've worked for.
End of the day, don't like me or whatever. Just go back dreaming about your dream car or house while I go buy them.
It's difficult to get in the top 15, top 20. You have to work for it.
You know, my dad, for sure, smacked me over the past few years when I was young.
For the past three or four years you know the crowd's behind you, supporting you, and to then be given a bit of a boo is not a good feeling.
I want to be remembered for as many tournaments as I can win and as many grand slams I can win.
But I would like to play for sure until I'm 35, if I'm injury free.
I'm probably going to be retired fishing somewhere in the north of Australia with not a tennis ball in sight.
Half the time during the day, I'm just depressed.
Until I am satisfied TA is committed to funding the development of junior Australian talent, including my sister Sara, on a non-discriminatory basis, I do not believe there is any point in meeting.
Tennis chose me. It's something I never fell in love with.
If I ever get the chance to win a grand slam, I think only then will I feel the feeling of being really, really happy.
Not many things can make me super happy.
Contrary to some self-serving reports, I am okay and strong. I have not hit rock bottom.
Throughout my career I've given 100 percent. I've given also 30 percent. But if you balance it out, I think all my career's been around 50 percent.
As I started to do a lot of fitness I gained a little bit more strength and I was a little bit slow around the court.
Don't play tennis. Do something you love and enjoy because it's a grind and it's a tough, tough, tough life. My position, I'm trapped. I have to do it.
Hopefully I can win grand slams in the future but until then I have to work very, very hard.
I'm never going to be the fittest guy on tour.
I never loved tennis. I am just going to go about it as a job.
I managed to break through at the age of 18, and what a tour it was for the first few years.
When I was 19 and 20, and 20 or 25 in the world , I was enjoying it. But now it's a rollercoaster and I just can't seem to find the commitment to work hard, to enjoy and to lift trophies. Maybe I have to look at a few things and maybe play less tournaments.
I can always play at the top level. It's just about my head being right.
I focused on a diet and it helped me a lot.
There are 50 people fitter than me between the top 70 to 150 in the world. There are some players not as fit as me inside the top 10 in the world. Will fitness help them? I don't think so.
I've never really had time to think about my thoughts. I've always had people around, my mobile phone... everything was so fast-paced.
You probably don't like me but, at only 24, you guys can only dream about having what I have at 24.
Being good, being talented, and being young is something, you know, that I had and have.
I really feel like I'm improving every day, not just as a tennis player but as a person and really becoming more mature in this big sport of tennis.
You can only learn from the best players out there, the best people, best idols, role models, whatever you want to call them.
I've done the wrong things, I've said the wrong things to my father, which is not good for any kid to do and for their parents to do.
Wouldn't anyone want to take a job in a professional sport in one of the biggest sports in the world and only give 50, 60 per cent and earn millions of dollars? I think everybody would take that.
My Dad will always be my coach. He knows me better than anyone.
It's a Grand Slam. Everyone is playing to win, playing for themselves at the best level. They've prepared their best.
I love Davis Cup. I respect it from my heart.
I prefer speaking Croatian when I train.
I lost 4.5 kilos in a week. Somehow.
We all play this sport - well, many players say they play this sport because they love it - it's their passion. I never really did it like that.
I was always wanting to play tennis, to enjoy the game and I've loved everything about it and not one day will I wake up and say I've had enough.
I'm six-foot-five, so it's not easy to be like Ferrer with a very low centre of gravity.
If you're not ready then you can play bad, and you only have one shot at the Australian Open each year, so you have to do the best you can.
You have to take whatever comes at you, and you've got to look at it as a positive.
I don't really rate these matches as winning or losing, Sydney and Kooyong. That's not important to me. What's important for me is to get out on the court, do my thing and work on a few things I needed to do.
I didn't pay attention and I was 99 kilos. I am tall, I am big. But 99 kilos, close to 100 kilos - that's too much. I felt like I was going boxing.
Somehow I managed 2014 to be 60 in the world.
But when you truly get to know me, I'm a good guy. I'm not the bad boy people think I am.
I am always available for selection for Davis Cup. If TA select me, then great. If TA does not select me, then there's not too much I can do.
I always thought, you know, things would come my way and tennis would always, you know, with my talent, take me to the top of the world.
I'm 24. I came on tour at 16, 17. I have been around and feels like I'm super old but I'm not.
We've all done a lot of bad things in life. And I think you have to learn from what you do, and really think about, after you've done those mistakes, how to not do it again, and how to approach things differently.
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