Top 108 Quotes & Sayings by Grigor Dimitrov
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Last updated on September 16, 2024.
I think people enjoy seeing my kind of game.
I think 2014 was, like, throughout the whole year, I had this fantastic year.
I love design; to create stuff from ground zero is the best for me. I'm always so intense when I talk about that.
You never know how many times you're going to be able to come out on Rod Laver Arena and just play.
I think, losses, I think they teach you the most, but it's tough. I'm not gonna lie. It sucks. It's terrible. You can't sleep for two days.
In order to be the best, you have to be around the best.
It's always tricky to play against a player who you've never played against.
When you step out on the grounds of Wimbledon, you feel that respect, you feel that heritage, feel the history.
I think when I was younger, I was struggling to kind of differentiating love from a personal love or a tennis love or whatever else. There was time that I wasn't sure how to deal with both things in the same time. But you learn. I guess we grow. I mean, I don't want to say I've learned from my mistakes, but I've learned myself a little bit better.
I get manicures and pedicures because I don't want to be one of those guys with messed-up hands and feet.
I'm terrible at relaxing and holidays. For me, a day off is going to the gym. I could never just lie on the beach and read a book.
I've always been a fighter. I can get pretty feisty sometimes.
The first time I heard 'Baby Federer,' I was maybe 16. After that, it sort of took off.
I really believe that I can be the No 1, but for that to happen, I probably need to win a couple of grand slams, and they are not going to fall from the sky.
All I'm focused on is playing my game. Everything else will take care of itself.
I have so many different interests in so many areas that sometimes I just need to chill, step back, and let it be.
At some point in your life, you need to sit down and say, 'What do I want to do? How do I want to be remembered? What's my legacy? And what's important to me?'
I don't like taking showers in the locker room after a match.
Obviously, it's tough when you lose a match, but that's how it goes.
I think the first step is definitely Top 5. From there, you can sort of see the end, and that's the top. In order to do that, you need to win Slams and big tournaments. That's just proven. There is no other way.
One tournament can change everything for you. You never know when that tournament might be.
I would love to have a beautiful family one day, to win Slams. I'd love my kids to see me play before I retire.
Sure, I can afford a nice car and a nice place, but this is not what brings me happiness. Now you're on a high, and people know you and things like that, but how many people will remember your name once it all stops and the money isn't raining from the sky?
I like camouflage a lot.
My dad taught me how to play tennis, and I owe that to him. But the better you get, the higher you climb, and the more lonely you get. I've had to sacrifice a lot of personal relationships, but that's the choice I made.
It's good to have a good teacher, but you always need a pretty good student.
There's a lot of distractions in New York.
I'm the kind of guy that I cannot just lock myself in the room and just think tennis for 24 hours.
I'm just going to have to keep working on what I have to and keep chasing my goals.
After Wimbledon is one of the only times you can take time for yourself.
I have always been an admirer of Feli, Feli Lopez. He's just - I mean, every time - he's, like, fit and good and his long hair and the beard.
At some point, you have worked so hard in your life and your tennis that you don't want to be too much up and down. You want to do what you have done and eventually get better.
It's very hard to look at the man in the mirror. Because you can't hide anything.
Wimbledon is a very special tournament, and for me, it's one of the best events.
You've just got to take things the way they are and accept them and strive.
The negative talk, everything that has been coming my way, I don't care about it.
As long as I don't overindulge, it's OK for me to eat burgers and ice cream occasionally. As for alcohol? I've never tried it.
I'm a very good sleeper, especially during a tournament; I usually get eight hours a night, even before a big match.
I don't want to say 'gullible,' but when I saw someone, I always thought that person is the way they present themselves.
I know what I have to do in order to do good.
I can play on grass - when I won Junior Wimbledon, that was an unbelievable feeling, I could not believe that I had won the tournament, as Wimbledon is like the holy place of tennis.
There is always a dream, for me, in the locker room before matches as well during the day. If you have a strong mind, a strong tendency to keep you strong, I think your dream is coming.
Let's forget the cliche on girlfriends, from Serena to Sharapova. I say it's easy to get lost in beauty, but is it a mistake then?
Tennis players have the ugliest feet.
Tennis is one of those sports: whatever you put in, you get out.
I am always wearing a bracelet, necklace, and watch. I don't even care if they don't match.
You have to forget you are playing against your idol, because the guy on the other side also wants to play better than you and beat you. I don't think you should allow yourself to think like this when you go against any player.
I can take five showers in one day.
The majority of decisions, I've always taken by myself.
You're going to play a lot of tournaments during the year, a lot of traveling. If you have a good set of mind, you're committed to the work, you want to do that work, and you definitely got to do it. Doesn't matter if you have four, five, six losses in a row, that doesn't have to discourage you to stop all of a sudden.
I even remember the first contract I ever signed. I was 13 or 14... my dad said, 'It's your choice. It's your life.'
Who wouldn't want to practice with the No. 1 player in the world?
I am always focusing on what I can do better for years down the line.
Of course there is a lot of things you can work on and change and all that, but first I think you should look at yourself before you actually start trying to find excuse in the other people, whether it's going to be coach, physio, family, or whoever else is on your side.
It would be difficult to pick out one shot as my main strength, as I like all my shots, and I can do anything on any surface.
With the right set of mind, with the right people, with the right support, things happen.
There is no shortcuts. Play your best tennis, give your heart out, and anything can happen.
I believe in my abilities, as when I get things right, things happen for me.
One of the scariest things for any athlete, I think, is pretty much the off season.
I've always been a very easy-going person.
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