Mardy Fish Quotes

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Mardy Fish

Profession : Tennis Player

Birth : December 9, 1981

Davis Cup means almost everything to me.

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I'm very comfortable knowing how hard I have worked in the later stages of my career.

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There were times I felt I'd never get my life back. Am I ever going to be normal and go out with my friends and have a beer and not think I am going to wake up at 3 A. M. and have anxious thoughts about what normal people are doing?

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I was a guy who loved to be on my own at times and to travel and some of the most comfortable times were in the middle of my career flying overseas, where you have to turn your phone off and no one can get to you for 10 hours. It was just a really comfortable place for me.

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I played as many golf tournaments as I could. I killed time by playing and practicing. It's something I love to do; it's fun and I was good at it.

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I feel very blessed to play a sport for a living.

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The sport, my job, was taken from me so abruptly that it took me a long time to get my life back.

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I had my job, which I loved to do, which I was really good at. I was at the top of my career, and I had it all taken away because of a mental illness.

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The more and more I spoke about it, the more I found out how many people deal with it, the more I read about it and researched it, the more you start to realize how many Americans deal with some sort of mental illness on a daily basis. That gave me comfort.

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I'm obviously struggling to go out on my own terms.

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It took me months and months to get back to normalcy - to have a glass of wine at dinner, to go out to a movie with my wife. Just those normal things that you take for granted I wasn't able to do for a long time.

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I've retired 15 times in my head, I mean literally.

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I don't feel like in my head I have anything to prove.

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I've got a big serve, a hard serve, and quicker points as opposed to longer points.

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I'm superstitious as far as stuff around the courts. I'll eat the same things and drink the same things, and have the same breakfast in the morning.

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Anytime you can beat a player that's going to go down as one of the best of all time, that's a good win.

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You can't play this game without being fit, and without being mentally fit and ready.

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Some days are better than others, some weeks are better than others.

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I was just too heavy, flat out too heavy.

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A lot of it is maturity and getting older. You know, sort of getting married and realizing you're not out there for yourself anymore.

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