Mats Wilander famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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When you become a top player, you think that nothing else and nobody else matters. You can tell everybody on earth, 'Listen, I'm playing tennis, I don't have time for you. I'm in the semifinals of the U.S. Open, screw everybody and everything else.'
-- Mats Wilander -
To me, Hewitt and Nadal would be the best spirited fighters I've ever seen on the tennis court.
-- Mats Wilander -
Sports is about balls and about heart and you don't find too many champions in any sport in the world without heart or balls. He might have them, but against Nadal they shrink to a very small size and it's not once, it's every time.
-- Mats Wilander -
You can't be considered a great player unless you win Wimbledon. That's the way it is.
-- Mats Wilander
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The banishment for life of Pete Rose from baseball is a sad end if a sorry episode. One of the game's greatest players has engaged in a variety of acts which have stained the game, and he must now live with the consequences of those acts. There is absolutely no deal for reinstatement.
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Today was about execution, period. Every single player, all of us in the dressing room right now, we’re embarrassed because that’s not the way we want to play soccer.
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I'm not a good guitar player.
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Assistant coaches become a little bit more buddies to the players than a head coach.
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Indo-European peoples and Semitic peoples are today still completely different... Jews almost everywhere form a special society... Muslims (the Semitic spirit is today represented mainly by Islam) and the Europeans stand face to face like two beings of different species, having nothing common in the way of thinking and feeling...
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There were many occasions in my career where I could have given up, where I asked myself whether I would ever make it.
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Unlike in my young days I'm not able to eat, drink and sleep tennis.
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But I still have to practice hard if I'm going to play my best tennis.
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Tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love - the basic elements of tennis are those of everyday existence, because every match is a life in miniature.
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Sex doesn't interfere with your tennis; it's staying out all night trying to find it that affects your tennis
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