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I like to compete.
Ivan Lendl / Tennis Player
Like
Compete
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I just travel all the time.
Ivan Lendl / Tennis Player
Travel
Schedules
Time Travel
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He's a haircut and a forehand.
Ivan Lendl / Tennis Player
Haircuts
Motivational Tennis
Tennis
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I enjoy life. I always enjoy jokes.
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Enjoy
Enjoy Life
Jokes
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What I like about golf is there are no bad calls.
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You know how kids are. They like to do what parents do.
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Kids
Know How
Parent
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I am not playing Wimbledon because I am allergic to grass.
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Allergic
Grass
Wimbledon
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I certainly don't lose any sleep if I lose a tennis match.
Ivan Lendl / Tennis Player
Ifs
Sleep
Tennis
Match
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Not winning at Wimbledon is not going to bother me forever.
Ivan Lendl / Tennis Player
Bother
Forever
Wimbledon
Winning
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Too many people asking too many questions in tennis. Golf is better.
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Golf
People
Tennis
Too Many People
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You have to focus on the process. You cannot be glued to the results.
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Focus
Process
Results
Glued
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I believe the brain is like a muscle - like any other it can be improved.
Ivan Lendl / Tennis Player
Motivational
Sports
Believe
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If I don't practice the way I should, then I won't play the way that I know I can.
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Leadership
Sports
Practice
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I got bad calls every match, and I never got an apology. So I thought it was rather strange.
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Sports
Apology
Strange
Calls
Match
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I was between 2 and 3 in the world for two, three years. That's not exactly where I wanted to be.
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Sports
Two
Years
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If you lose, it hurts, but as long as you have fought hard, you can still feel good about yourself.
Ivan Lendl / Tennis Player
Feel Good
Hurt
Long
Hurts
Good Long Yourself
Fought
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It's flattering to be compared in any way to Tiger Woods, because he's the best player in the world.
Ivan Lendl / Tennis Player
Flattering
Player
Woods
World
Best World Way
Compared
Tiger
Tiger Woods
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If you become great, then you can become happy. If you're happy first, it's much more difficult to be great.
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Difficult
Firsts
Ifs
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Once you win, you have no doubt that you can win. So you have gone through it once, and you can do it again.
Ivan Lendl / Tennis Player
Doubt
Gone
No Doubt
Winning
You Can Do It
Again
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My serve and my forehand I pretty much always had, but my backhand was a made backhand. I worked on it for years.
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Made
Years
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It's very nice to see when somebody who wanted to work hard and is willing to put the work in gets rewarded for it.
Ivan Lendl / Tennis Player
Hard Work
Nice
Wanted
Work See Hard
Rewarded
Work Hard
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I have seriously thought about retiring, but that was on a good day. On a bad day I've thought about killing myself.
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Bad Day
Good Day
Killing
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Tennis is not like other sports where the coach is hired by an independent entity, and that makes a huge difference in the dynamic.
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Sports
Differences
Entity
Huge
Independent
Tennis
Coach
Difference
Dynamic
Hired
Huge Difference
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Many Czech people are very talented. They can do many things, but when they get to a certain level, they are satisfied. I am not like that, thank God.
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Czech
Satisfied
Thank God
God I Am Thank God
God I Am People
Certain Level
God Thank God I Am
Talented
Thank
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If you look at any superior athlete, you will find a strong parental influence. Parents introduce their children to a sport, and then they support them.
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Sports
Athlete
Children
Influence
Parental
Strong
Support
Sport
Look Children Parents
Parents
Introduce
Superior
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People may say I developed an iron will, but what really happened is that I made myself much fitter. I think an iron will is always supported by fitness.
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Fitness
Iron
Iron Will
People
Thinking
Developed
Fitter
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When I lose, it doesn't just go to my head; it goes to my heart too. If you're at all in the match, if you love to play and ein, it must go to your heart.
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Leadership
Sports
Heart
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In tennis you move a lot. Golf you dont. In tennis, you can have a bad half-hour, but you cant in golf. You can lose the first set in tennis and still win.
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Golf
Moving
Winning
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In tennis you move a lot. Golf you don't. In tennis, you can have a bad half-hour, but you can't in golf. You can lose the first set in tennis and still win.
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Golf
Tennis
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You can never guarantee the wins but you can guarantee that you give it 100%. That way you can always look back and feel comfortable, as a player or a coach.
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Comfortable
Always Look Feel
Coach
Look Way Feel
Guarantee
Wins
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Many times the players get in there and it's just about as well as they could have done, and other times they get in there and they favorites and they don't win.
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Sports
Done
Player
Winning
Could
Favorites
Times
Well
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Olympic gold is obviously right up there with a grand slam. It's a big win. You can say it's more, you can say it's less, you can say it's equal. It's very much up there.
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Equal
Gold
Slam
Grand
Grand Slam
Obviously
Olympic
Olympic Gold
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I'm certainly not sorry that there were some things I missed. You may think you're missing something at that time but later when you look at it, you didn't miss anything.
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Sports
Missing You
Sorry
Miss
Missed
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If you go to school and practice for five days a week, it still gives you two days you can go and see your friends, you can go to the movies, you do whatever you like to do.
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Sports
Practice
School
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You know, you just go out there, do your best. Sometimes it's good enough and sometimes it is, and sometimes it stays your only one and sometimes you win bunch others behind it.
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Bunch
Best Good Enough
Best Good Do Your Best
Behind
Do Your Best
Stays
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Many tennis coaches are enablers. They need the job more than the player needs the coach, and if the coach needs the job more than the player needs the coach, he can't effect change.
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Needs
Tennis
Job
Coach
Effect
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But to be fair, if you take players from my era to now, the game has changed and the players have many more shots. They use them differently than we did. The speed of the game has changed.
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Sports
Games
Player
Speed
Fair
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I think talent is dangerous to have if you take it for granted. If you use it well and put hard work with it together, it's hard to catch that guy. And I think that's what you're seeing right now.
Ivan Lendl / Tennis Player
Sports
Granted
Hard Work
Thinking
Work Hard Work Together
Catch
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Don't mistake activity for achievement - practice the right way. - John Wooden I only play well when I'm prepared. If I don't practice the way I should, then I won't play the way that I know I can.
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Leadership
Sports
Mistake
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I don't make a habit of watching tennis matches, but I try to watch all the major finals. I try to make time for that. So unless I have something going with the kids where I can't, I try to watch, and I enjoy that.
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Kids
Sports
Finals
Habit
Tennis
Matches
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I just travel all the time. And I was just looking at the schedules now and starting the first week of October I will be every weekend with somebody at tournaments through Christmas. So it gets very difficult to just go away and not do that.
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Christmas
Smile
Travel
Going Away
October
Schedules
Tournaments
Weekend
Go Away
Just Looking
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I think if you look at Andre then and now, you look at two different models. Of course it's personal preference, I think Andre now is a great role model for the kids. He has started training differently than he was before, and so on and so on.
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Preference
Andre
Model
Role Model
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Because in order to beat Jimmy, I had to get around the ball a little bit quicker so I wasn't always on defensive and catching the ball on last stride, that I had little more time. Once I was able to get little bit quicker, then it has helped me a lot.
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Sports
Balls
Catching
Jimmy
Order
Stride
Time Always Me
Beat
Defensive
Time Me Always
Helped
Quicker
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But it's very difficult, I can tell you I played the Czech Open a few times and it's very difficult just to go on to a scene where the course is prepared differently when the greens are fast and he's not used to it and they're hard as a rock and he's not used to it.
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Czech
Goes On
Hard Times
Prepared
Rocks
Scene
Greens
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Tennis is basically a game where you try to create an opportunity for yourself to finish the point, because you can't wait for the opponent to miss anymore. Well, if you create an opportunity and don't take advantage of it, you let the opponent back to even, then you are just starting the point over, so you have to take advantage of them.
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Advantage
Tennis
Finish
Wait
Opponent
Take Advantage
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