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

Ivan Lendl

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Ivan Lendl
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: March 7
Art Collector
Tennis Coach
Tennis Player
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Too many people asking too many questions in tennis. Golf is better.
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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.
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I certainly don't lose any sleep if I lose a tennis match.
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I just travel all the time. And I was just looking at the schedules now and starting the first week of October I will be every weekend with somebody at tournaments through Christmas. So it gets very difficult to just go away and not do that.
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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.
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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.
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Not winning at Wimbledon is not going to bother me forever.
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What I like about golf is there are no bad calls.
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I got bad calls every match, and I never got an apology. So I thought it was rather strange.
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I enjoy life. I always enjoy jokes.
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I just travel all the time.
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If you go to school and practice for five days a week, it still gives you two days you can go and see your friends, you can go to the movies, you do whatever you like to do.
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I believe the brain is like a muscle - like any other it can be improved.
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In tennis you move a lot. Golf you dont. In tennis, you can have a bad half-hour, but you cant in golf. You can lose the first set in tennis and still win.
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I have seriously thought about retiring, but that was on a good day. On a bad day I've thought about killing myself.
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I am not playing Wimbledon because I am allergic to grass.
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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.
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I was between 2 and 3 in the world for two, three years. That's not exactly where I wanted to be.
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Many times the players get in there and it's just about as well as they could have done, and other times they get in there and they favorites and they don't win.
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It's flattering to be compared in any way to Tiger Woods, because he's the best player in the world.
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