Ivan Lendl Quotes

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

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• You have to focus on the process. You cannot be glued to the results.

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

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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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• 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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  Tags in Game, Try

• 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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• Once you win, you have no doubt that you can win. So you have gone through it once, and you can do it again.

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

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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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• 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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  Tags in Win, Times

• 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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• 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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  Tags in Level, Satisfied

• 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.

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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.

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

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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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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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