Lendl Of Tennis Quotes & Sayings

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

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

Tennis is not like other sports where the coach is hired by an independent entity, and that makes a huge difference in the dynamic. — Ivan Lendl

People are hurting out there, perhaps they are ready to start a conversation about whether an AR-15 belongs in the hands of a citizen, whether a citizen should be able 6,000 rounds on the internet. — Brian Williams

You think the greatest thing in the whole world would be to become a baseball player - if best things already happened, what's next? — John McGraw

Lendl has remained throughout as calm as the proverbial iceberg. — Dan Maskell

Ralph also took some classes in philosophy and literature and felt himself on the brink of some kind of huge discovery about himself. But it never came. — Raymond Carver

He's a haircut and a forehand. — Ivan Lendl

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

I visualize my hand raised at the end, and every thing in between is just having fun. — Jessica Penne

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

People look ridiculous when they?re in ecstasy ... — David Byrne

In tennis you move a lot. Golf you don't. In tennis, you can have a bad half-hour, but you can't in golf. You can lose the first set in tennis and still win. — Ivan Lendl

Children can find other children to be pals. Children need fathers to be fathers. — Garrison Keillor

Too many people asking too many questions in tennis. Golf is better. — Ivan Lendl

Ivan Lendl's never going to be a great player on grass. The only time he comes to the net is to shake your hand. — Goran Ivanisevic