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Ivan Lendl Quotes

Ivan Lendl Quotes & Quotations
Name:
Ivan Lendl
Type:
Athlete
Nationality:
Czechoslovakian
Birth day:
Birth year:

  • 1
    Because in order to beat Jimmy, I had to get around the ball a little bit quicker so I wasn't always on defensive and catching the ball on last stride, that I had little more time. Once I was able to get little bit quicker, then it has helped me a lot. Ivan-LendlIvan Lendl
  • 2
    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. Ivan-LendlIvan Lendl
  • 3
    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-LendlIvan Lendl
  • 4
    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. Ivan-LendlIvan Lendl
  • 5
    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. Ivan-LendlIvan Lendl
  • 6
    I got bad calls every match, and I never got an apology. So I thought it was rather strange. Ivan-LendlIvan Lendl
  • 7
    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-LendlIvan Lendl
  • 8
    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-LendlIvan Lendl
  • 9
    I was between 2 and 3 in the world for two, three years. That's not exactly where I wanted to be. Ivan-LendlIvan Lendl
  • 10
    If I don't practice the way I should, then I won't play the way that I know I can. Ivan-LendlIvan Lendl
  • 11
    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. Ivan-LendlIvan Lendl
  • 12
    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-LendlIvan Lendl