Ivan Lendl Quotes

• 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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  Tags in Time, Around, Able

• 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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  Tags in Rock, Hard, Difficult

• 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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  Tags in Time, Enjoy, Try

• I got bad calls every match, and I never got an apology. So I thought it was rather strange.

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  Tags in Bad, Thought, Strange

• 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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  Tags in Time, Sorry

• 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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  Tags in Game, Fair

• I enjoy life. I always enjoy jokes.

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• I certainly don’t lose any sleep if I lose a tennis match.

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  Tags in Sleep, Lose, Tennis

• 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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  Tags in Time, Travel

• I like to compete.

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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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  Tags in Play, Won, Practice

• 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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  Topics in Children

  Tags in Strong, Parents

• 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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  Tags in Great, Different

• 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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  Tags in Between, Wanted

• 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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  Tags in Great, Happy

• 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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  Tags in School

• If you lose, it hurts, but as long as you have fought hard, you can still feel good about yourself.

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  Tags in Good, Long

• 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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  Tags in Bad, Win

• 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.

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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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  Tags in Pretty, Worked, Serve

Ivan Lendl (36)

Birth:	7th March, 1960
Nationality:	Czech
Profession:	Tennis Player

About

Ivan Lendl was born in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia. He is a former world No. 1 professional Czech tennis player and is currently coaching current world number 1 Andy Murray, alongside Jamie Delgado. He captured eight Grand Slam singles titles. He competed in 19 Grand Slam singles finals, a record surpassed by Roger Federer in 2009, Rafael Nadal in 2014 and Novak Djokovic in 2016. He also won a record 22 Grand Prix Super Series titles, the precursors to the current ATP Masters 1000. Lendl married Samantha Frankel. They have five daughters.

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