Top 104 Quotes & Sayings by Mats Wilander

I really enjoyed playing Yannick Noah - he was and still is my favourite. In the heat of the moment he was very fair and very physical. He was strong, big and he moved unbelievably well. He was also mentally tough.

The slide is tennis.

I love camping out, I love teaching tennis.

The point in tennis is to take the ball as early as possible and take time away from your opponent.

Nick Kyrgios, physically, is a monster. When he is on the court and he runs, he flies. And he has got a massive arm.

If an athlete like Michael Jordan played tennis, he would be the best - he's flexible, not too bulky, and has unbelievable hand-to-eye coordination.

Power is not tennis to me. I'd rather lose playing my game.

I hardly ever watch TV and when I do it's sports. I'll occasionally stick on some old episode of 'Fawlty Towers' or something.

Wimbledon is not the easiest tournament in which to make a comeback.

I'm not actually a musician.

I was a really good ice hockey player when I was a kid. Now in the aftermath I think I wasn't maybe big enough, and I couldn't have put on enough muscle to actually be able to play with the better guys, but I was a really good skater.

I play the guitar.

Federer can be off for six months but knows how to win matches.

People talk about the drama of the set that goes on and on. But it leaves one guy exhausted for the next round, it's horrible for the players waiting to come on court, and it has the potential to mess up the schedule for everyone.

I started with the two-handed backand before Borg was famous.

When I was 14 I wasn't even thinking of playing professional tennis. I was thinking of going to high school in Sweden then getting a job.

I have fun playing tennis and I understand that the good things from tennis go hand in hand with attention. But it's not important to me.

To me, there are only a few tournaments that are important. The Grand Slams, Davis Cup, the Swedish Open; that's about it.

If you don't get tired or bored then there is something wrong with you - you are not human. People maybe don't realize that. Players try to hide it and try to be the perfect role model, but it is not always so easy.

In Sun Valley, people play tennis and then go for a hike. You should be too tired to go for a hike!

Nadal is going to break all the records.

You have to hate to lose.

I play a lot of golf and I'm in a little ice hockey league at home in Idaho.

Everyone has a temper, but in Sweden, no one throws a racquet or screams. We show more manners and common sense. This is a game, not war.

I always feel that if you were the best in any generation, you most likely would have been close to the best in any other generation too.

There is no such thing as bad luck in tennis. Just bad technique.

Ivan Lendl was the best player I ever played. He was the first guy to bring the game to more of a power level and you could know that if he played really well you could get blown off court and that wouldn't happen against John McEnroe, Jimmy Connors or even Bjorn Borg or Guillermo Vilas.

Myself and Cameron Lickle travel around North America in an RV and we conduct tennis clinics in clubs.

Nadal is just more at home on clay. It looks like he feels safer on clay courts. He can get to a few more balls, he can play a bit further behind the baseline when he defends, and he's also able to get the ball to bounce higher. It's unbelievable.

Rafael Nadal, I see no demons in him. None. Unless he picks up the racket with his right hand.

More than half of the matches are won in the dressing room for him. The guy he's playing against is sitting in the locker-room thinking 'oh my God, I'm going to play Rafa Nadal on clay in five sets, that's going to be painful.'

I am willing to take chances. I miss more, but I am going for it.

Borg had an American attitude, which I think is not so good. He only enjoyed winning and he was out of tennis when he was 26.

There is no added pressure to play a Swede.

Miloslav Mecir - best anticipation of any player in our generation for sure. The most flexible... and then crazy good hands. He is the best player in the world to not have won a slam, for sure. No question in my mind. He should have won three or four.

Everybody gets bored or rather emotionally flat sometimes, but most players are not so honest as Tomic. They have sponsors that need to be happy, and they want to keep the tour happy.

He didn't have the best shots but the intensity of the match and the positive energy you got from playing Yannick Noah was something I didn't get from anyone else.

Maybe we can see more men's and women's combined events so the young players can be marketed better.

The more happy you are off the court, the more you will get out of yourself on the court.

Tennis has always been at the forefront of equality between men and women's prize money.

In 2015, there was no chance Djokovic would have an off day.

I was 7 years old and my dad gave me a wooden tennis racket.

We need more honesty out there, but it is hard when you see what the media does to someone who is trying to be honest.

The Davis Cup should be home and away from the semi-finals as a minimum, I would say even the quarters.

The really top guys play within themselves 99 percent of the time.

Svitolina moves a little bit better than Ostapenko but Ostapenko goes for it a little earlier in the rallies. The way she plays she can take you out of the equation.

It is basic, serve at the weak point of your opponent.

I always want to win when I play, but sometimes I just can't get that interested all the time.

The goals become harder to focus on when there isn't a specific number in mind, or a title that you haven't won.

My genetic makeup is a little bit crazy.

No absolutely not, I don't have any regrets about anything I've done in my life I learn from my mistakes and without mistakes I wouldn't be where I am today.

Some tournaments wouldn't work as men's and women's event but others would.

When I first retired from the game, I had times in my life when the days just wouldn't move.

I still rate my first victory in the French Open at Roland Garros as my best win ever.

I'm never really aware of mistakes I've made when I'm commentating or on TV, I'm sure they happen sometimes and I guess it makes for a more interesting experience!

I am really impressed with Dominic Thiem's patience at times.

Tennis is a running game, not a hitting game - it's not golf.

Your game stalls when you assume you're the finished product.

I think every human being has good intentions in one aspect of life and some in every.

There's no way you can go out there and have a killer instinct on court, be selfish on the court, when there are more important things going on in your life, or in your heart.