Andy Murray Quotes

Wimbledon, for me, is the most important tournament of the year, so you know there’s always going to be people expecting me to do well.

You have to go into each match believing you can beat all of the players.

Obviously you try to keep as much of your private life as private as you can.

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.

When I’m at home, I enjoy going go-karting.

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.

To be honest, I think bananas are a pathetic fruit.

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 play any tournaments to come second best.

I’ve realised over the years I play my best when I have time to prepare for each tournament as best as possible.

I am not stroppy at all.

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.

For me, by far, the Olympics is the biggest sporting event in the world.

I used to think that losing made you more hungry and determined but after my success at the Olympics and the U.S. Open I realise that winning is the biggest motivation.

You are always talking about yourself and tennis and how you are feeling. I try to avoid it when I don’t have to.

A lot of athletes use sports psychologists.

When I’m training in December, I have to eat like 6,000 calories a day to maintain my weight. It’s a bit tiring.

I had great success with Ivan Lendl. Was he a perfect coach? No. Was he a very good coach? Yeah. He had some very strong qualities and some things that weren’t so good.

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.

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 believe you should give 100% on the court, so I chase every ball.

One day for dinner I’ll have fish, then the next day chicken, and then I’ll have steak. I just try to mix it up all the time. I don’t eat the same thing every day.

Boxing, mixed martial arts and tennis are the hardest sports to train for.

I just enjoy watching tennis. And there’s things that you can learn from the men’s and the women’s game.

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.

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.

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.

Having a normal knee would make life a lot easier.

Earlier in my career, I used to spend a lot of time practising my tennis on court. Now I’ve learned that it’s better to do just a couple of hours on court and two gym sessions a day. That’s what’s made me fitter and stronger.

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.