Top 104 Quotes & Sayings by Mats Wilander - Page 2

I'm a private person and being recognized makes me uncomfortable.

I was No 1 in the world but too much is made of it.

Mladenovic knows how to use the power of the crowd.

I never contemplated retiring but when I was a teenager I never thought I'd play past 30 years old. I thought I'd win a few tournaments and then have a family.

Usually if you haven't figured out how you want to play tennis yourself, it is hard to accept the failures of playing five sets.

Only so many can succeed. Only one can be number one.

I've gone past the stage where I feel pressure.

Andy Murray's already done what is needed for British tennis, which is ignite it. There's a person, there's a player that kids want to be like.

Sure, it comes with a lot of bonus rewards, whatever it may be, some of it may be financial. And it is great to have been No 1 in the world, when you get a bit older you can reflect on it. But I was No 1 in the world before I actually was No 1 in the world, in my mind at least.

I love the freedom of the road.

Hockey is the dream of all Swedes. They get the girls.

Guys like Roger Federer and Rafa Nadal know how to win matches, they don't need to have as much confidence as other players.

I don't think there is anything missing from Tsitsipas.

The point is to win the biggest tournaments and beat the biggest guys head to head. Then, if the computer ranking works out that you are No 1 in the world so be it.

I have a better backhand than forehand.

Maybe being number one has got to me, because from there you can only go down.

I think people expect me to be around at the end of a tournament.

I am disappointed when I lose and don't play well, for example. But it is not so disappointing to lose when you play good. And I never feel I want to put the racquet down and walk away because of losing.

You should play all the slams you physically can.

I'm a useless guitar-player. When I put myself in a band I immediately became its weakest part. I was like my forehand volley at tennis.

Nadal tries his best all the time, every point. But Kyrgios can spend 10 minutes looking like he would rather be walking down the King's Road.

That's why the tactics are so hard against Kyrgios because no one knows what he is going to do.

Del Potro is one of these miracle men he can come up with these matches where you least expect it and he pulls something out of the bag. I have no idea what it is but he becomes a magician.

I'm not Borg Two, I'm Wilander One.

Every player, they should sit down and have a meeting. They should agree, 'this is how we play Nadal, this is how we play Federer, this is how we play Djokovic.' Then, all try to play them the same way. The right way. First you have to play the right way, then you need to play well.

If it doesn't mean more to a normal human being like Dan Evans, who could change his life and career by winning not a gold but a bronze medal for Great Britain, if he doesn't want to take that chance, I would say something is wrong with the Olympics in what it's worth in tennis.

I decided to work really hard in 1987. I hired Matt Doyle, a former pro player, and he helped me with my physical training. Lendl was the first to focus on that. He used to be weak, physically and mentally.

We've never had a hungrier player than Federer and Nadal and I would say that Nadal is probably much hungrier than Federer.

I love my life. I commentate for Eurosport, so you could say I've reached the final of every grand slam since 2002 when I started that. I love what I do, and I love playing tennis with amateurs, regular guys, helping to teach them to enjoy tennis more.

The biggest mistake we usually tend to make with young players is over-coaching.

I think it's bad in a way for junior players and college players to feel they must be number one.

At Wimbledon if it is slightly wet you don't even play the match. At the French Open you need to just get on with it and somehow adjust.

I like to camp and to not have to check in to airports and hotels and I love to just drive, man.

Ninety five percent of the field is not competitive when Nadal is playing.

I think someone like Denis Shapovalov on a fast court and being left-handed is a massive, massive danger to everybody.

The conditions change so much at the French Open, you know, you have to be prepared for something you really don't know what it is. You can practice in the morning and it's fine, and the weather is great then you come to play in the afternoon and it is drizzly and the conditions are totally different.

To me, Dan Evans is an example of somebody that puts the clock back a little bit and tells everybody: 'Listen, tennis is not a freak sport where you need to have rich parents, who sit in your players' box for every single week of the whole year, and you need to talk to your coaches' box between every shot.'

I couldn't ever be a better player than I was in 1988.

There's definitely a lack of self-belief in many players, which is the only complaint I have about men's tennis.

I think when you can beat Novak Djokovic in the final of a Masters tournament, you are going to be OK.

You can't be considered a great player unless you win Wimbledon. That's the way it is.

Sports is about balls and about heart and you don't find too many champions in any sport in the world without heart or balls. He might have them, but against Nadal they shrink to a very small size and it's not once, it's every time.

To me, Hewitt and Nadal would be the best spirited fighters I've ever seen on the tennis court.

When you become a top player, you think that nothing else and nobody else matters. You can tell everybody on earth, 'Listen, I'm playing tennis, I don't have time for you. I'm in the semifinals of the U.S. Open, screw everybody and everything else.'