Top 103 Quotes & Sayings by Jo-Wilfried Tsonga - Page 2

I have been regularly confronted with racism, very regularly, and since my earliest childhood.

Everybody's expecting a lot from me.

I like to be in Le Mans during the summer, of course because I have my family over there but also because the nature is just beautiful at this time and it's in the country. There is a relaxing spirit in this place.

I grew up in a village just outside Le Mans, so nature and fresh air are among the things I love the most.

Not everybody can beat the players I beat.

When you get on to fresh grass courts you always know that they might be a bit slippery but you have to adjust accordingly.

I like to dress fashionably, it's great.

When you play a big server, you are under enormous pressure on your own serve because you cannot afford to be broken. That causes a lot of players to panic: you see double faults or tentative serves. It's all in the mind, but it still happens.

I never set any limits on my results.

Well, we're working hard all the time. We have ambitions.

I've gotten tougher.

Sports, it's beautiful, because you can always do something.

We can all play on the court and share the courts with the girls.

Even if you play, you know, the best player in the world... you have a chance.

I'm very different on the court than outside.

I was one of the only children having an immigrant father in my elementary school.

It is always something special to play Roger.

I like to listen to Congolese music because when I was a kid with my father, he took me to play some tournaments in the car and always put on this music. I always fell asleep with this music so it's good things that I remember.

I actually like to kid around and laugh, and on the court I do like to put on a show.

I give a lot of myself every day. I never get rewards. That's why sometimes, it's tough.

The court is where I can express something that I've got deep inside me.

It is extremely important to play for your country.

When you travel like we do, a holiday is simply being able to sleep in your own bed.

I try to be consistent in my work, and I'm sure it will give me some rewards.

All I want to do is to play my tennis and try to do the best possible on the court.

Among the things I love about London is that there is a lot of green space and that the buildings are not very tall.

I've got a bit of the eccentricity of Africa and a bit of Western calm.

I think the best match I played was against Roger Federer in the quarter-finals at Wimbledon in 2011, especially because I won this match after being two sets down.

Facing a great server makes a match so much more difficult, even for the best players in the world.

It is important to put pressure on Janowicz.

I think my best friends are my team-mates in Davis Cup. We have been growing up together since we were 11 or 12.

Mikhail Youzhny likes the grass and has plenty of weapons to hurt you with.

As I always say each time I start a tournament, I want to go as deep as I can.

People have a different impression sometimes because of the way I'm on court, but outside, I'm nothing like that.

Well, I like characters, players with personality, I don't like flat people.

Everything can happen in tennis.

When I come to London, it is always quite relaxing for me in a way, not just because it is one of my favourite cities but because it comes immediately after the French Open, which for me is a very significant tournament with lots of pressure.

Djokovic against Tsonga in 2008 is not the same as in 2010. He knows that I can play well and he knows that I can beat him if he's not at his best.

Janowicz is more than just a big server. He moves well, has a fantastic forehand and good hands.

In our job you are constantly travelling, going in and out of different temperatures.

You know, the girls, they are more unstable emotionally than us. I'm sure everybody will say it's true even the girls (laughter). No? No, you don't think? I mean, it's just about hormones and all this stuff. We don't have all these bad things, so we are physically in a good shape every time, and you are not. That's it.

The serve is the only thing you know about yourself when you play tennis. If you make it right, you make it right. Nobody can touch you when you serve. Nobody can disturb you. You have the ball in the hand.

The only explanation on what's happened today is my opponent was better than me.