Ivan Lendl Quotes

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Ivan Lendl

Profession : Athlete

Birth : March 7, 1960

Many tennis coaches are enablers. They need the job more than the player needs the coach, and if the coach needs the job more than the player needs the coach, he can't effect change.

Ivan Lendl

Tennis is basically a game where you try to create an opportunity for yourself to finish the point, because you can't wait for the opponent to miss anymore. Well, if you create an opportunity and don't take advantage of it, you let the opponent back to even, then you are just starting the point over, so you have to take advantage of them.

Ivan Lendl

If you lose, it hurts, but as long as you have fought hard, you can still feel good about yourself.

Ivan Lendl

My serve and my forehand I pretty much always had, but my backhand was a made backhand. I worked on it for years.

Ivan Lendl

You know how kids are. They like to do what parents do.

Ivan Lendl

Too many people asking too many questions in tennis. Golf is better.

Ivan Lendl

In tennis you move a lot. Golf you don't. In tennis, you can have a bad half-hour, but you can't in golf. You can lose the first set in tennis and still win.

Ivan Lendl

I like to compete.

Ivan Lendl

If you become great, then you can become happy. If you're happy first, it's much more difficult to be great.

Ivan Lendl

You can never guarantee the wins but you can guarantee that you give it 100%. That way you can always look back and feel comfortable, as a player or a coach.

Ivan Lendl

It's very nice to see when somebody who wanted to work hard and is willing to put the work in gets rewarded for it.

Ivan Lendl

Once you win, you have no doubt that you can win. So you have gone through it once, and you can do it again.

Ivan Lendl

Olympic gold is obviously right up there with a grand slam. It's a big win. You can say it's more, you can say it's less, you can say it's equal. It's very much up there.

Ivan Lendl

Many Czech people are very talented. They can do many things, but when they get to a certain level, they are satisfied. I am not like that, thank God.

Ivan Lendl

I certainly don't lose any sleep if I lose a tennis match.

Ivan Lendl