Quotes About Tennis

It doesn't matter the way you're playing, especially the beginning of a grand slam. It doesn't change anything.

In Grand Slam, you play every two days, five-set match. You have a little bit more time to make mistake.

It's a joke how tough it is to win a Slam.

Even when I was a little kid, I always dreamed that I would play Serena in a final of a Grand Slam.

Almost every Grand Slam, I'm in second week, which is pretty positive for me.

I prefer the Grand Slam than the No. 1, but still, to get No. 1, not many players did that, so it's going to be very important for me.

Being No. 1 is great, but it is even better to win a Grand Slam.

If you get to No 1, people say, 'But you didn't win a Grand Slam.' You cannot win, because you can say the same the other way round. In my opinion, both are really important. If you want to finish your career really happy with what you did, you have to win both.

Not everybody gets a home slam; not everybody gets home events. I am part of a very select few who get that opportunity, so I can only really be grateful for that.

When I travel to a grand slam, I need to look for a place to stay for me, my family and my team.

I was getting, at like 18, 'Why haven't you won a Grand Slam yet?'

Of course, I want to win a Grand Slam.

I love my life. I commentate for Eurosport, so you could say I've reached the final of every grand slam since 2002 when I started that. I love what I do, and I love playing tennis with amateurs, regular guys, helping to teach them to enjoy tennis more.

I am really proud of other things in my career: being in the top five, reaching the final of a grand slam twice. I'm actually even more proud of making it to the French Open final in 2010 than the previous year.

Grand Slam matches are always tough.

For sure, it's important for an Asian man to win a grand slam. I hope I'm the one to make it.

Once you move into the second week of a Grand Slam, you know you are getting closer to playing on some of the world's biggest courts.

I think I have best result of Grand Slam in U.S. Open.

People say, 'You slide too much.' I try to change a bit, just to see the difference, and it's very bad. The faster and easier thing is to slide. To me, it's a gift, it's natural. It may be different, but I'm me.

When you get on to fresh grass courts you always know that they might be a bit slippery but you have to adjust accordingly.

I started when I was six years old. My first coach was my granny, she was the best player in Slovakia.

If we can make some kind of adjustments, maybe in the game, to make it interesting and slow down the surfaces, then it will be more fun and more interesting.

You can't slow the game here. It's grass, it's always going to be fast.

Well, obviously it's clay. It's slower. You have to grind more. You move a lot more. You have to slide.