Andy Murray famous quotes

I don't play any tournaments to come second best.
-- Andy Murray

#Play #Second Best

In tennis, it is not the opponent you fear, it is the failure itself, knowing how near you were but just out of reach.
-- Andy Murray

#Knowing #Tennis #Opponents

I used to think that losing made you more hungry and determined but after my success at the Olympics and the U.S. Open I realise that winning is the biggest motivation.
-- Andy Murray

#Motivation #Winning #Thinking

This year its just about winning the big matches because if youre going to get into the top 20 then youve got to do well at the Masters Series and the grand slams. I dont have any ranking points to defend for the first few months of the year so if I do well over the next few weeks then Ive got a chance of doing it.
-- Andy Murray

#Winning #Years #Next

I proved that I can win the Grand Slams. I proved that I can last four and a half hours and come out on top against one of the strongest guys physically that tennis had probably seen especially on this surface. So they would probably be the things that I would say I have learned tonight: To not doubt myself physically and mentally from now on.
-- Andy Murray

#Winning #Tennis #Guy

People think I am unemotional because my voice is flat and a bit boring. It is unfortunate but it is just the way it is. I've tried to change it but it doesn't seem to make a difference. The truth is, I have lots of emotions inside. I cried after the semi-final at Wimbledon [2012] because I was proud to reach the final and I knew how much it meant to the country. I cried after the [losing] final [to Federer], too, for different reasons. I felt I had let people down. I think people warmed to that. They could see how much it hurt.
-- Andy Murray

#Country #Hurt #Thinking

I understand how much everyone wanted to see a British winner at Wimbledon and I hope everyone enjoyed it. I worked so hard in that last game. It's the hardest few points I've had to play in my life. I don't know how I came through the final three points... that last game ... my head was kind of everywhere. That last game will be the toughest game I'll play in my career, ever.
-- Andy Murray

#Games #Play #Careers

I play fantasy basketball and fantasy football, soccer.
-- Andy Murray

#Basketball #Soccer #Football

When I'm in Miami I like to go and watch basketball, the Miami Heat.
-- Andy Murray

#Basketball #Watches #Miami Heat

It would have been better if I had won, but reaching the final was perfect.
-- Andy Murray

#Perfect #Tennis #Finals

Everything in tennis is so neat and nice but boxing has sport down to its essence; it is very pure and I like that.
-- Andy Murray

#Sports #Nice #Essence

Where resources are plentiful (i.e. no constraints), you will find very little creativity. Where resources are scarce (i.e. many constraints), you will find an abundance of creativity.
-- Andy Murray

#Creativity #Littles #Abundance

Like most guys, I've always liked watches. I can always check the time on my phone, but having a watch is so much better.
-- Andy Murray

#Phones #Guy #Watches

I don’t want a flashy car, just something that would allow me to stop using the Tube. And it would be good not to have to rely on my mum all the time, particularly when I have to listen to her singing in her car.
-- Andy Murray

#Car #Singing #Would Be

I try to anticipate the ball well. That's something that's helped me since when I was a kid. Just learning to anticipate and read the game well. That's helped me. When I moved over to Spain and I was 15 I was playing with big guys who were 22 years to 28 years old and I was 15 so I couldn't beat them with power. I had to beat them with touch shots and variety and anticipation and all of those things. I learned a lot when I was over there.
-- Andy Murray

#Kids #Years #Games

We Scots have a fierce pride in the things we do that others can never appreciate. I am the British No. 1, but I would prefer to be the British No. 1 from Scotland every time.
-- Andy Murray

#Pride #Scotland #Appreciate

I am Scottish. I am also British.
-- Andy Murray

#Scottish #British

Boxing, mixed martial arts and tennis are the hardest sports to train for.
-- Andy Murray

#Sports #Art #Boxing

Contrary to my image, I do have a sense of humour.
-- Andy Murray

#Humour

It's not the end of the world to lose.
-- Andy Murray

#World #End Of The World #Ends

Having a normal knee would make life a lot easier.
-- Andy Murray

#Knees #Normal #Easier

I don't actually go to that many concerts.
-- Andy Murray

#Concerts

I never read. The paper or anything. I watch a lot of movies, and TV series and stuff. But I never, never read.
-- Andy Murray

#Watches #Paper #Stuff

I've realised over the years I play my best when I have time to prepare for each tournament as best as possible.
-- Andy Murray

#Years #Play

My fitness trainer's English, my physio's English, some of my friends are English. I don't have a problem with English people at all.
-- Andy Murray

#People #Problem #Trainers

When I'm training in December, I have to eat like 6,000 calories a day to maintain my weight. It's a bit tiring.
-- Andy Murray

#Training #Weight #December

Coaches need to have a vision.
-- Andy Murray

#Vision #Needs #Coaches

To be honest, I think bananas are a pathetic fruit.
-- Andy Murray

#Thinking #Fruit #Bananas

I tend not to argue about things that I don't believe in.
-- Andy Murray

#Believe #Arguing

Sometimes you're looking to play perfect tennis but it's not going to happen all the time and you have to accept it.
-- Andy Murray

#Play #Perfect #Tennis

Tennis is an individual sport, and I am quite a self-conscious person.
-- Andy Murray

#Sports #Self #Tennis

For me the most important thing has always been tennis, and that's what I want to get across the image I want to portray is a hard-working tennis player.
-- Andy Murray

#Hard Work #Player #Tennis

I'll be supporting anyone but England.
-- Andy Murray

#England

I'm definitely open to change, but at the same time I am quite stubborn.
-- Andy Murray

#Stubborn

When a lot of things are going the wrong way for a country, for a people, when you can't really think of anything worse than a war, you always try to take life on the brighter side and that's how I grew up with my parents.
-- Andy Murray

#Country #War #Thinking

You have to go into each match believing you can beat all of the players.
-- Andy Murray

#Believe #Player #Beats

You are always talking about yourself and tennis and how you are feeling. I try to avoid it when I don't have to.
-- Andy Murray

#Talking #Tennis #Feelings

I've been asked a lot lately if tennis is clean or not. I don't know any more how you judge whether a sport is clean. If one in 100 players is doping, in my eyes that isn't a clean sport.
-- Andy Murray

#Sports #Eye #Player

Obviously you try to keep as much of your private life as private as you can.
-- Andy Murray

#Trying #Private Life

Normally I sleep for 9, 10 hours a night.
-- Andy Murray

#Sleep #Night #Hours

There is a fear of emotion in tennis.
-- Andy Murray

#Tennis #Emotion

You can't focus on other people's careers. Everybody is different.
-- Andy Murray

#Careers #People #Focus

If you want a player to serve and volley more, you need to teach them to do that more, how to move at the net.
-- Andy Murray

#Moving #Player #Needs

A lot of athletes use sports psychologists.
-- Andy Murray

#Sports #Athlete #Use

Everybody always talks about the pressure of playing at Wimbledon, how tough it is, but the people watching make it so much easier to play.
-- Andy Murray

#Play #People #Wimbledon

For me, by far, the Olympics is the biggest sporting event in the world.
-- Andy Murray

#Events #World #Olympics

I am not anti-English, and I never was.
-- Andy Murray

I am not stroppy at all.
-- Andy Murray

I believe you should give 100% on the court, so I chase every ball.
-- Andy Murray

#Believe #Giving #Balls

I love music. I listen to a lot of it.
-- Andy Murray

#Music Love #I Love Music

I think most players would love, at one stage in their career, to say, 'I've been No. 1 in the world.
-- Andy Murray

#Player #Thinking #Careers

I've never felt nervous in front of big crowds and in big stadiums.
-- Andy Murray

#Crowds #Nervous #Bigs

Well, my mum's been a tennis coach - she coached me till I was 12.
-- Andy Murray

#Tennis #Mum #Wells