Andy Murray Quotes

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Andy Murray

Profession : Athlete

Birth : May 15, 1987

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

Staying more controlled mentally stemmed from taking my fitness more seriously. When you're doing track work, sprints and so on, it's pretty painful, but that does make you feel better prepared and therefore mentally stronger when you're going into a match. You know, without a doubt, that you are strong enough to last.

Andy Murray

For much of the year, you're just trying to maintain your fitness. It's not often you get a lot of time to really concentrate on improving it.

Andy Murray

A lot of the players are very complimentary about each other; they embrace at the end of matches because the level of the tennis has been so good. I think that's something that tennis has got to be proud of.

Andy Murray

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

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

Andy Murray

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

Andy Murray

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

Boxers risk a lot in the ring. That's one of the things that attracts me to it. You want to see a knockout but I also really don't want to see people get hurt. It's this constant dilemma when I'm watching boxing. The only times I get nervous is watching a really big fight or when my brother is playing. I get to the stage where I'm actually shaking.

Andy Murray

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

One day for dinner I'll have fish, then the next day chicken, and then I'll have steak. I just try to mix it up all the time. I don't eat the same thing every day.

Andy Murray

Getting married is great, and I feel really good away from the court, and my private life and stuff is good. But you still need to train and work hard. Like, I didn't go on a honeymoon after we got married; I went to Barcelona and trained for 10 days to get ready for the clay-court season. It's been good, but you still have to put the work in.

Andy Murray

I play fantasy basketball and fantasy football, soccer.

Andy Murray

I used a lot of sports psychologists when I was younger... sometimes it helped, sometimes it didn't.

Andy Murray

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

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

I love music. I listen to a lot of it.

Andy Murray

Normally I sleep for 9, 10 hours a night.

Andy Murray

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

One of the things I would have loved to have had was a family that worked better together, although I love my mother and father to bits.

Andy Murray