Words matter. These are the best Andy Murray Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I am not anti-English, and I never was.
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.
I don’t play any tournaments to come second best.
I believe you should give 100% on the court, so I chase every ball.
When I’m at home, I enjoy going go-karting.
When you have beaten guys a few times, you don’t want them to think they know how you are going to play them. You have to try and find different ways of beating them. You have to do things they don’t expect sometimes, put something unpredictable into your game.
You can’t focus on other people’s careers. Everybody is different.
Tennis is an individual sport, and I am quite a self-conscious person.
In tennis, it is not the opponent you fear, it is the failure itself, knowing how near you were but just out of reach.
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.
To be honest, I think bananas are a pathetic fruit.
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.
I used a lot of sports psychologists when I was younger… sometimes it helped, sometimes it didn’t.
I’m definitely open to change, but at the same time I am quite stubborn.
Well, my mum’s been a tennis coach – she coached me till I was 12.
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.
Sometimes you’re looking to play perfect tennis but it’s not going to happen all the time and you have to accept it.
Boxing, mixed martial arts and tennis are the hardest sports to train for.
There’s two people I would say to try to go and watch who are probably the future of tennis. One girl called Taylor Townsend, she got a wildcard from the event into Wimbledon; she’s an American girl. On the men’s side, there’s an Australian guy called Nick Kyrgios; he’s 19, and he was the number one junior in the world.
Everybody always talks about the pressure of playing at Wimbledon, how tough it is, but the people watching make it so much easier to play.
A lot of times, the press guys ask why I take an hour and a half to come to the interview room, but if you don’t do the massage and the ice baths and the stretching and the cooling down and the eating, and your opponent is doing that stuff, they already have an advantage.
Everyone has to try to give back as much as possible because I think in all sports it helps kids to have role models or people to look up to. Someone like Jess Ennis, I know a lot of young girls have started to get into athletics stuff because of her, because of her success.
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.
I am Scottish. I am also British.
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.
I tend not to argue about things that I don’t believe in.
I play fantasy basketball and fantasy football, soccer.
I just enjoy watching tennis. And there’s things that you can learn from the men’s and the women’s game.
I do some 400 m. repetition running for endurance on the court. I’ll be in the gym lifting weights, or I’ll be putting in a lot of core stability to work to improve my balance.
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.
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.
When I’m in Miami I like to go and watch basketball, the Miami Heat.
Like most guys, I’ve always liked watches. I can always check the time on my phone, but having a watch is so much better.
