69 Quotes by 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.

Tennis is not like other sports where the coach is hired by an independent entity, and that makes a huge difference in the dynamic.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I don't know what to say, ... It has been a fantastic run. I enjoyed playing here.

Every time I won the Grand Slam for the first time, it's more special than the others, and the ones behind that were not too shabby either.