Top 79 Quotes & Sayings by Stan Wawrinka
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Swiss athlete Stan Wawrinka.
Last updated on November 7, 2024.
To say that I won the French Open, it's something completely crazy.
I like my easy life at home. I like to live in Switzerland. I like to be with my wife, with my daughter, to take my daughter to school, to lead a normal life. I try everything possible to keep that.
It's simple - I love food. I am travelling all-year round, so I have the chance to eat every food possible, so I am really lucky with that.
Sometimes we have a match at 11 in the morning, sometimes at 9 P.M. We need to always be adapting; we don't have a match at the same time every week, so it's important to be open with everything.
As a child, I was lucky to have the support of my parents because starting a tennis career is a very expensive adventure.
I'm always trying to improve, always trying to be at my top, trying to push the limit.
It doesn't matter the way you're playing, especially the beginning of a grand slam. It doesn't change anything.
I like to go to Mauritius on holiday.
I have many good friends on tour.
Queen's is one of my favourite tournaments of the year.
I like Chennai very much. The atmosphere is always great, and the fans are amazing. That's why I keep coming back.
I never expected to win a Grand Slam because, for me, I was not good enough to beat those guys.
I never dreamed to win a Grand Slam. It was never a dream because, for me, it was way too far.
You can always learn when you lose.
I know if I want to have a chance to beat the top players, I need to be mentally ready for that.
My parents wanted me and my siblings to practice some sports outside school. And since we lived next to a tennis club, we decided to play tennis. I didn't have an idol, so to speak, but I always enjoyed watching Pete Sampras and Alex Corretja.
Every minute counts. Being on time or not can mean the difference of a win or a loss and even of something positive or negative happening in life.
Those big matches, when you go through so much, are the best thing. Those matches are why you play tennis.
All you can do is trust your game and not wait for the opponent to give you the match.
My parents weren't very sporty, and football wasn't part of my everyday life. I was never a massive football fan either, but, like everyone else, I used to watch matches on TV.
If you start to hesitate with your game, if you start to not go completely with your plan, then it's tough to play your best tennis.
I don't take anything for granted. In the beginning, my parents put a lot of money on the table so I could live my dream, without putting any pressure on us. We made our own way. But I've seen so many players come and go that I never, not for one minute, thought I could rack up millions on the tour.
I love New York. It is an amazing city, and the U.S. Open is a lot about the show. There are tens of thousands of spectators; these are some of the best courts in the world, and there is nothing like being here and making memories.
I love the region around Lake Geneva. The landscape is beautiful, very peaceful, and such a nice place to relax and spend time outdoors. It's always a pleasure to come back home.
Coaching is very complex: it's like a puzzle, and many things need to come together to make it work.
As a tennis player, you have to get used to losing every week. Unless you win the tournament, you always go home as a loser. But you have to take the positive out of a defeat and go back to work. Improve to fail better.
When you don't play those big matches for a few years, it's tough to play back-to-back after that.
When you win a big title like the French Open, it's tough. The emotion in doing this is really up and down. Afterwards, you feel a little bit lonely, a bit of depression mentally. Because it's so much stress and emotion, so many people around - and then it's completely empty.
I've always been a big fan of Thierry Henry. I enjoy watching all the great players, really. But we're always drawn to some players more than others, and in my case, it's Titi. He's my favourite player. I also really liked Luis Figo when he was at Real Madrid.
I had a very happy childhood. I was lucky to grow up surrounded by nature and animals, to be outside all the time, and to work on a big farm with my dad.
I've always enjoyed playing in Paris, ever since I was a junior and won the junior event there. Being Swiss, this is the Grand Slam that is closest to us - the one we watch first and visit first if we are lucky enough.
I won a grand slam with an Audemars Piguet on my wrist, so I feel it is a great match.
I just have to play my best game. Not think about anything else - that is the only concern I have and that we should all have.
Tennis is a big puzzle. It's not any more physical or mental; you have to have all the pieces first, and then you have to put all the pieces together. For me, it took me time.
My body is for my tennis - it's for my sport. I'm not a model at all. I don't work out to go to the beach: I work out to play well and to do well on the court.
Doubt can be good because it means you want to improve: you want to be a better person, a better player. But it's also good not to have too many doubts on the court.
I think I love my sport. I enjoy to play tennis. It's my passion.
As far as fitness is concerned, you have to enjoy it, do good exercises, and integrate them into your tennis practice. The preparation for the season is as crucial as doing good blocks when switching from one surface to another.
You have to make sacrifices. You have to work out, to be relaxed in your mind, to focus on what you're doing.
I enjoy Indian cuisine a lot. It's delicious.
When I was younger, I was a little bit fat. I wasn't, like, big-time fat; I was just overweight - maybe around when I was 13 or 14. At that time, I wasn't practicing that much; tennis was just a hobby. But it wasn't easy to feel that way.
By growing up at a center for people with special needs, I learned to always fight hard to achieve what I want. In this regard, I was incredibly lucky.
You always need to try hard to find solutions. It's the same in life or tennis.
The schedule is tough in tennis.
My favourite film is 'Le Diner de Cons,' a French movie.
For me, motivation is easy. I enjoy what I'm doing, and I'm lucky to play tennis. I enjoy the suffering. It's something quite natural for me to go on the court and suffer, and to go in the gym and to suffer, and to know the only way to get better is to work out - that's what I like.
I'm always proud to play for Switzerland, and that will always be something really special.
Stress is part of your career. You have to accept it and deal with it because there is a lot of emotion in tennis.
Put the fight on the court, and you will have a chance to win.
I grew up surrounded by tennis, so I was obviously more interested in it than football - particularly as it's the most popular sport.
The first years when I came to New York, everything was too big and too much. For me, it was too difficult here, but bit by bit, it became one of my favorite places.
I was never afraid of getting up early and practice for many hours. I often go to practice very early during winter.
I don't really care if I play really well, well, or okay. I want to win.
You can't underestimate rest. Sometimes in tennis we don't realize that to rest your body is as important as it is to practice. We are traveling so much, all year, in different conditions, different courts, different surfaces, different balls - so we always have to adapt.
I enjoy putting myself in situations where you are nervous, but you need to enjoy yourself also. I've done skydiving, bungee jumping. I quite like those sensations - when you feel a little bit nervous and you don't really know where you are going. It's a quite good sensation that I love. I like the speed; I like everything.
There is always disappointment, heartache. You are losing almost every tournament. You need to just accept it and be positive because you are going to lose and fail. We're not all Nadal or Djokovic, who can win most tournaments.
I always try to find the positives in losing a match, but it's not always easy.
There's only really one way to be at the top, and that's practicing - practicing well and practicing hard. And enjoying what you do, because if you don't enjoy it then, it's always tough to wake up and go practice and suffer on the court.
I was a little bit lost in my head after winning a Grand Slam. You're like: 'So what's the next goal? What do you want now? Where do you want to be? It's not a problem if you lose.'
I've always enjoyed playing in Switzerland. The crowd support is amazing here, and Basel is one of the best indoor tournaments in the world.
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