Quotes from 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.

You need a very sharp team working with you to still be the same person all the time.

When I feel that confidence to do my best shots, I know I can be dangerous for all the guys.

I like to play big battles with other guys.

I like to study culture and buildings and it's something I do on tour.

I like to go to the supermarket and I meet fans there too.

I think to win in straight sets every match is important for the body, for the legs, for the physical conditions.

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 like to play always with the No. 1 of the world, doesn't matter the tournament or the conditions or the weather.

I like to see Argentinian fans around the courts, Latino-American people, also.

I just want to play tennis in front of the big crowds.

When you have chances against the top guys, and you couldn't make it, then they take advantage of the game.

At the height of my career, prior to the injuries, I never thought I could break the barrier of Federer, Nadal, Djokovic and Murray, and now I did it with everything that happened.

In the finals, anything can happen.

The money, the pictures, the fans following you everywhere you can have everything you want. There are different temptations every time, but you have to be calm with your focus and your work.

Some athletes can change, because it's not easy when you became famous too fast. The money, the pictures, the fans following you everywhere you can have everything you want. There are different temptations every time, but you have to be calm with your focus and your work.

To me, the U.S. Open was always the Grand Slam I wanted to win most.

The people stand up from the chairs when I hit good winners. I like to do that.

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.

I am trying to be a good person every day and do what my parents teach me when I was a kid.

The tennis life is very short, as I say. And my first goal is always to be a good person.

Especially the top players, they always try to set their own form, so to say, around the Grand Slams because that's where they want to play their best.

I'm very proud to represent my hometown, my country.

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.