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Quotes from Mats Wilander

Wimbledon is not the easiest tournament in which to make a comeback.
~ Mats Wilander
At Wimbledon if it is slightly wet you don't even play the match. At the French Open you need to just get on with it and somehow adjust.
~ Mats Wilander
The Davis Cup should be home and away from the semi-finals as a minimum, I would say even the quarters.
~ Mats Wilander
Rafael Nadal, I see no demons in him. None. Unless he picks up the racket with his right hand.
~ Mats Wilander
Svitolina moves a little bit better than Ostapenko but Ostapenko goes for it a little earlier in the rallies. The way she plays she can take you out of the equation.
~ Mats Wilander
My genetic makeup is a little bit crazy.
~ Mats Wilander
More than half of the matches are won in the dressing room for him. The guy he's playing against is sitting in the locker-room thinking 'oh my God, I'm going to play Rafa Nadal on clay in five sets, that's going to be painful.'
~ Mats Wilander
I was 7 years old and my dad gave me a wooden tennis racket.
~ Mats Wilander
Everyone has a temper, but in Sweden, no one throws a racquet or screams. We show more manners and common sense. This is a game, not war.
~ Mats Wilander
I have fun playing tennis and I understand that the good things from tennis go hand in hand with attention. But it's not important to me.
~ Mats Wilander
If you don't get tired or bored then there is something wrong with you - you are not human. People maybe don't realize that. Players try to hide it and try to be the perfect role model, but it is not always so easy.
~ Mats Wilander
Sure, it comes with a lot of bonus rewards, whatever it may be, some of it may be financial. And it is great to have been No 1 in the world, when you get a bit older you can reflect on it. But I was No 1 in the world before I actually was No 1 in the world, in my mind at least.
~ Mats Wilander
No absolutely not, I don't have any regrets about anything I've done in my life I learn from my mistakes and without mistakes I wouldn't be where I am today.
~ Mats Wilander
Tennis is a running game, not a hitting game - it's not golf.
~ Mats Wilander
Hockey is the dream of all Swedes. They get the girls.
~ Mats Wilander
We need more honesty out there, but it is hard when you see what the media does to someone who is trying to be honest.
~ Mats Wilander
I like to camp and to not have to check in to airports and hotels and I love to just drive, man.
~ Mats Wilander
I play a lot of golf and I'm in a little ice hockey league at home in Idaho.
~ Mats Wilander
Andy Murray's already done what is needed for British tennis, which is ignite it. There's a person, there's a player that kids want to be like.
~ Mats Wilander
I think when you can beat Novak Djokovic in the final of a Masters tournament, you are going to be OK.
~ Mats Wilander
I think people expect me to be around at the end of a tournament.
~ Mats Wilander
The point is to win the biggest tournaments and beat the biggest guys head to head. Then, if the computer ranking works out that you are No 1 in the world so be it.
~ Mats Wilander
Some tournaments wouldn't work as men's and women's event but others would.
~ Mats Wilander
To me, there are only a few tournaments that are important. The Grand Slams, Davis Cup, the Swedish Open; that's about it.
~ Mats Wilander