Mardy Fish Quotes

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Mardy Fish

Profession : Tennis Player

Birth : December 9, 1981

I do enjoy the experience of a 10 or 12-day competition.

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As a captain, you don't have to worry about playing well, or recovering, or injury. As captain, you know the match is in the hands of the player, not you.

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I always felt gratified as a player when Jim Courier was captain, and I knew he had been in any possible scenario I might face on the court. It's amazing to sit with someone like him, and to draw confidence from what he says, or even just nothing.

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It's just really humbling to know that your story can help people.

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I had trained myself to show no weakness.

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Showing weakness and showing fear and letting people in was a huge part of my comeback.

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I really wanted people to understand beating the stigma of, Hey suck it up,' is really important, because it's not as easy as that.

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The most trauma I had was on the tennis court.

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If I never had any mental health issues, there's no doubt in my mind I'd still be playing.

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I do want to play again. I'm just not sure if I'll be able to.

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I don't want people to think I missed the French Open because I didn't want to go because I was just tired.

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As tennis players, we're ingrained from a young age to not show anything - tiredness, fear - or your opponent is going to know and you don't want that to happen.

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In those years between 2010 and 2012, I was so consistent, not only on all surfaces, but just in terms of entering a tournament and winning matches.

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It was just crazy anxiety, crazy, crazy, just how am I going to walk out on this court?

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To educate is really the most important thing. To try to reach people that have never understood mental health or had issues with it or people around them who have had issues with it. To just educate them and just understand that Naomi Osaka is not going to pull out of the French Open just because she doesn't want to talk to the press.

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I practice kickboxing and Muay Thai right now, like, come on, I'll take anyone on in the ring. You can punch me in the face all you want, and I'll hit you back.

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If anyone reads about my story, and says, 'Look, there's a guy that struggled with a lot of stuff that I am dealing with now, and he got through it,' then, yeah, I'd love that. If it helps one person, then that's great.

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If I had three pancakes in the morning I'd be like, Oh, I feel a little full, did I eat too much? Maybe I ate too much, I don't feel perfect, what's going on?' It just snowballs.

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You gain more and more confidence every time you go through tougher situations like traveling alone and sleeping alone.

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I have some great memories from the Olympics I also have some tough memories from it as well, where I was so close to winning a gold medal.

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