Novak Djokovic Quotes

You have to consistently be successful to be one of the top players in the world, and everything is possible in life.

What I learned as a young child continues to have a tremendous impact on my life today.

Well, I do feel that I carry the responsibility of representing my country wherever I am, and this responsibility came with the success that I had in last couple of years, not just myself but the whole group of tennis players that comes from Serbia. And athletes in general are, in this moment, the biggest ambassadors that our country has.

We have a harder way to succeed in life as Serbs because of the past that we had and because of the history we had.

The tradition in Serbia has always been team sports – football, basketball, handball, volleyball and water polo, individual sports are not supported.

The history of our country is cruel. We have to face those issues or, should I say, we had to. Not anymore I hope, because we are going in the right direction, and we are ready to forgive, ready to move on.

The confidence is there, the game is there, but physically you can’t fight nature sometimes. You can’t do much about it.

Tennis players we’re always playing in center courts that feel like arenas. And when we get on the court and the crowd cheers your name or salutes you – it’s like you’re a gladiator in the arena. And everyone is cheering – and you’re fighting, you’re screaming, during your strokes – it feels like you’re an animal, fighting for your life.

Tennis is my life, obviously; I need to focus, I need to win. But it’s not the only thing. I’m not going to play forever.

Tennis is a mental game. Everyone is fit, everyone hits great forehands and backhands.

Serbian history tells that the family is the most important thing and you have to stick with the family.

People look up to me as somebody who is able to switch the image of our country from negative to positive.

Not everybody can like what I do, and if you feel that somebody is coming up closer to you and starting the rivalry and everything, you maybe change your position to him.

Nobody actually played tennis in my family.

My nutritionist has done a great job in changing my diet after we established I am allergic to things like gluten – I can’t eat pizza, pasta and bread. I have lost some weight, but my movement is sharper and I feel great.

My mother is a special story. She went through so much to bring us up, four men at home, especially when our country was going through really difficult times.

My grandfather went through a lot in his life.

My father never talked about the sacrifices that the family made for me.

My father had never watched tennis, never liked tennis too much. He said, ‘OK, we buy a racket, we watch together,’ because we didn’t know anything. It was a process of learning together that made it more interesting.