100 Quotes by Juan Martin del Potro

Tennis matches can last a long time and there are lots of times when all sorts of things can go through your mind.

I often think about the Boca attitude, what Boca means across the world, and about how many times they've won games you say they've lost, only for them to come back like Boca can.

When I was 16 I played at the Orange Bowl. I was one of the favourites to win and Boca were playing in the Intercontinental Cup against Milan. It was four in the morning in Miami and they wouldn't let me get up to watch it. I put the TV on ever so quietly, though, and watched the whole game, which went to penalties and lasted forever.

My coach from the time I was a kid was a specialist of hard courts. He teach me a different forehand than the rest of Argentinian players. That's why I am able to work better on hard courts.

I think the other guys, they have advantage to me when they play with six or eight racquets in one match.

It's not easy for the players change the racquet.

I've never done a fake injury or something like that. If I look tired, in pain, it's because this is true.

I take the really sad moments with me to the court. I'm able to transform all that energy, and from it create strength, faith, and a will to honor everything I've gone through. I use the memory of those painful moments as a weapon to keep fighting.

I have to do two or three hours of treatments every day just to be able to step onto a tennis court.