But it's very difficult, I can tell you I played the Czech Open a few times and it's very difficult just to go on to a scene where the course is prepared differently when the greens are fast and he's not used to it and they're hard as a rock and he's not used to it.

Ivan Lendl

Olympic gold is obviously right up there with a grand slam. It's a big win. You can say it's more, you can say it's less, you can say it's equal. It's very much up there.

Ivan Lendl

If you lose, it hurts, but as long as you have fought hard, you can still feel good about yourself.

Ivan Lendl

If you look at any superior athlete, you will find a strong parental influence. Parents introduce their children to a sport, and then they support them.

Ivan Lendl

I don't make a habit of watching tennis matches, but I try to watch all the major finals. I try to make time for that. So unless I have something going with the kids where I can't, I try to watch, and I enjoy that.

Ivan Lendl

I think talent is dangerous to have if you take it for granted. If you use it well and put hard work with it together, it's hard to catch that guy. And I think that's what you're seeing right now.

Ivan Lendl

Many Czech people are very talented. They can do many things, but when they get to a certain level, they are satisfied. I am not like that, thank God.

Ivan Lendl

It's very nice to see when somebody who wanted to work hard and is willing to put the work in gets rewarded for it.

Ivan Lendl

If you become great, then you can become happy. If you're happy first, it's much more difficult to be great.

Ivan Lendl

You have to focus on the process. You cannot be glued to the results.

Ivan Lendl

It's flattering to be compared in any way to Tiger Woods, because he's the best player in the world.

Ivan Lendl

Many tennis coaches are enablers. They need the job more than the player needs the coach, and if the coach needs the job more than the player needs the coach, he can't effect change.

Ivan Lendl

But to be fair, if you take players from my era to now, the game has changed and the players have many more shots. They use them differently than we did. The speed of the game has changed.

Ivan Lendl

I enjoy life. I always enjoy jokes.

Ivan Lendl

I like to compete.

Ivan Lendl

Not winning at Wimbledon is not going to bother me forever.

Ivan Lendl

I certainly don't lose any sleep if I lose a tennis match.

Ivan Lendl

Tennis is basically a game where you try to create an opportunity for yourself to finish the point, because you can't wait for the opponent to miss anymore. Well, if you create an opportunity and don't take advantage of it, you let the opponent back to even, then you are just starting the point over, so you have to take advantage of them.

Ivan Lendl

You know how kids are. They like to do what parents do.

Ivan Lendl

People may say I developed an iron will, but what really happened is that I made myself much fitter. I think an iron will is always supported by fitness.

Ivan Lendl

Because in order to beat Jimmy, I had to get around the ball a little bit quicker so I wasn't always on defensive and catching the ball on last stride, that I had little more time. Once I was able to get little bit quicker, then it has helped me a lot.

Ivan Lendl