Quotes by Ivan Lendl

About Ivan Lendl:

Ivan Lendl is a former world no.1 professional tennis player. Originally from Czechoslovakia, he became a United States citizen in 1992. He was one of the game's most dominant players in the 1980s and remained a top competitor into the early 1990s. He has been described as one of the greatest tennis players of all time. Lendl's game relied particularly on strength and heavy topspin from the baseline and helped usher in the modern era of "power tennis".
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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.

Ivan Lendl

It's flattering to be compared in any way to Tiger Woods, because he's the best player in the world.

Ivan Lendl

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.

Ivan Lendl

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.

Ivan Lendl

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.

Ivan Lendl

If you become great, then you can become happy. If you're happy first, it's much more difficult to be great.

Ivan Lendl

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.

Ivan Lendl

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

Ivan Lendl

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.

Ivan Lendl

I enjoy life. I always enjoy jokes.

Ivan Lendl

If I don't practice the way I should, then I won't play the way that I know I can.

Ivan Lendl

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.

Ivan Lendl

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

Ivan Lendl

I was between 2 and 3 in the world for two, three years. That's not exactly where I wanted to be.

Ivan Lendl

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 ...

Ivan Lendl

Not winning at Wimbledon is not going to bother me forever.

Ivan Lendl

My serve and my forehand I pretty much always had, but my backhand was a made backhand. I worked on it for years.

Ivan Lendl

You know how kids are. They like to do what parents do.

Ivan Lendl

Too many people asking too many questions in tennis. Golf is better.

Ivan Lendl

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.

Ivan Lendl

Author Bio

  • NameIvan Lendl
  • DescriptionCzechoslovakian tennis player
  • BornMarch 7, 1960
  • CountryCzechoslovakia
  • ProfessionTennis Player; Tennis Coach