Quotes About Mindset

If you start to hesitate with your game, if you start to not go completely with your plan, then it's tough to play your best tennis.

I've tried to dial my emotions down: not get too high, not get too low, try to find that even-keel tennis.

It's not only about a game and tennis, but it's more about the mental things sometimes.

I think, of course, when you are coming somewhere, when you know you are playing good tennis, it always helps you.

It's tennis. I'm still human. I'm not a robot.

I'm trying not to focus on the height of my opponent, just to play my tennis and to open the angles because it's the most important.

One of the biggest things I've worked on is how to play my best tennis every single time I walk on to the court.

The mental part of the game, being able to free up on the tennis court, is much easier said than done.

Every good tennis player has to have a short memory. Good or bad.

I work differently. I enjoy creating a space around me and not getting too high or too low. But I am continuously looking to get better - not just as a tennis player but also as a person dealing with new experiences.

There is so much that goes in to being a good tennis player. It's not just what you can do well on the court, it's between the ears as well.

I always just thought of myself as a tennis player.

It's kind of a crazy thing to decide that you're going to be worth tens and tens and tens of millions of dollars and set out to do that. It doesn't suit everybody.

I've always had that knack for staying pretty even keel and the more the situation gets tense the more I see things clearly and I think that's just a knack that I've always had.

If you come on a band tense, you're going to play tense. If you come a little bit foolish, act just a little bit foolish, and let yourself go, better ideas will come.

A lot of times when I'm confident and relaxed on the court, I'm going to be a pretty tough out. But when I'm not so confident and not so relaxed, I tense up and my balls fall short and everything. It just sort of unravels.

I used to be tense or nervous before heats. But I've learned to get rid of the negative stuff and just stay relaxed and positive - and it seems to be working for me.

If you think negatively, it's hard to get out of tense moments.

That's what a lot of people say, especially in college, it looked like I'm lackadaisical out there, like I'm not really paying attention. If I'm always tense, I'm going to be overthinking the game. I try to just go with the flow.

Anyway, when I get sorta tense and start thinking about every shot, that's when my game falls apart.

I don't show tension and nervousness, but I know how fast my heartbeat races before a race.

I suffer from a more complex, persistent fear. It manifests itself in nerves, and on film the camera sees even the tiniest evidence of this. So you have to learn that when the director calls 'Action,' you don't go to this place of tension, but somehow you become free.

Whatever tension is on set can end up on your face.

Do you agree that when there's tension and an obsession to want to hit the ball is when you hit it worst? You have to be loose.