Stan Wawrinka Quotes

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Stan Wawrinka

Profession : Athlete

Birth : March 28, 1985

I have many good friends on tour.

Stan Wawrinka

I know if I want to have a chance to beat the top players, I need to be mentally ready for that.

Stan Wawrinka

I've always enjoyed playing in Switzerland. The crowd support is amazing here, and Basel is one of the best indoor tournaments in the world.

Stan Wawrinka

I'm always trying to improve, always trying to be at my top, trying to push the limit.

Stan Wawrinka

You have to make sacrifices. You have to work out, to be relaxed in your mind, to focus on what you're doing.

Stan Wawrinka

Put the fight on the court, and you will have a chance to win.

Stan Wawrinka

The first years when I came to New York, everything was too big and too much. For me, it was too difficult here, but bit by bit, it became one of my favorite places.

Stan Wawrinka

I enjoy putting myself in situations where you are nervous, but you need to enjoy yourself also. I've done skydiving, bungee jumping. I quite like those sensations - when you feel a little bit nervous and you don't really know where you are going. It's a quite good sensation that I love. I like the speed; I like everything.

Stan Wawrinka

There's only really one way to be at the top, and that's practicing - practicing well and practicing hard. And enjoying what you do, because if you don't enjoy it then, it's always tough to wake up and go practice and suffer on the court.

Stan Wawrinka

You can always learn when you lose.

Stan Wawrinka

When I was younger, I was a little bit fat. I wasn't, like, big-time fat; I was just overweight - maybe around when I was 13 or 14. At that time, I wasn't practicing that much; tennis was just a hobby. But it wasn't easy to feel that way.

Stan Wawrinka

There is always disappointment, heartache. You are losing almost every tournament. You need to just accept it and be positive because you are going to lose and fail. We're not all Nadal or Djokovic, who can win most tournaments.

Stan Wawrinka

Doubt can be good because it means you want to improve: you want to be a better person, a better player. But it's also good not to have too many doubts on the court.

Stan Wawrinka

All you can do is trust your game and not wait for the opponent to give you the match.

Stan Wawrinka

I had a very happy childhood. I was lucky to grow up surrounded by nature and animals, to be outside all the time, and to work on a big farm with my dad.

Stan Wawrinka

By growing up at a center for people with special needs, I learned to always fight hard to achieve what I want. In this regard, I was incredibly lucky.

Stan Wawrinka

I don't take anything for granted. In the beginning, my parents put a lot of money on the table so I could live my dream, without putting any pressure on us. We made our own way. But I've seen so many players come and go that I never, not for one minute, thought I could rack up millions on the tour.

Stan Wawrinka

Once you are on court, everything is different. I focus on the match.

Stan Wawrinka

Coaching is very complex: it's like a puzzle, and many things need to come together to make it work.

Stan Wawrinka

My game takes time to adapt to grass; grass is a little bit different.

Stan Wawrinka