69 Quotes by Ivan Lendl

I have seriously thought about retiring, but that was on a good day. On a bad day I’ve thought about killing myself.

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.

When I lose, it doesn’t just go to my head; it goes to my heart too. If you’re at all in the match, if you love to play and ein, it must go to your heart.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.