Mats Wilander Quotes

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I always feel that if you were the best in any generation, you most likely would have been close to the best in any other generation too.

Mats Wilander

The conditions change so much at the French Open, you know, you have to be prepared for something you really don’t know what it is. You can practice in the morning and it’s fine, and the weather is great then you come to play in the afternoon and it is drizzly and the conditions are totally different.

Mats Wilander

I decided to work really hard in 1987. I hired Matt Doyle, a former pro player, and he helped me with my physical training. Lendl was the first to focus on that. He used to be weak, physically and mentally.

Mats Wilander

In Sun Valley, people play tennis and then go for a hike. You should be too tired to go for a hike!

Mats Wilander

I really enjoyed playing Yannick Noah – he was and still is my favourite. In the heat of the moment he was very fair and very physical. He was strong, big and he moved unbelievably well. He was also mentally tough.

Mats Wilander

Usually if you haven‘t figured out how you want to play tennis yourself, it is hard to accept the failures of playing five sets.

Mats Wilander

Federer can be off for six months but knows how to win matches.

Mats Wilander

Rafael Nadal, I see no demons in him. None. Unless he picks up the racket with his right hand.

Mats Wilander

I was a really good ice hockey player when I was a kid. Now in the aftermath I think I wasn’t maybe big enough, and I couldn’t have put on enough muscle to actually be able to play with the better guys, but I was a really good skater.

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Everybody gets bored or rather emotionally flat sometimes, but most players are not so honest as Tomic. They have sponsors that need to be happy, and they want to keep the tour happy.

Mats Wilander

Wimbledon is not the easiest tournament in which to make a comeback.

Mats Wilander

It is basic, serve at the weak point of your opponent.

Mats Wilander

Guys like Roger Federer and Rafa Nadal know how to win matches, they don’t need to have as much confidence as other players.

Mats Wilander

Borg had an American attitude, which I think is not so good. He only enjoyed winning and he was out of tennis when he was 26.

Mats Wilander

I love my life. I commentate for Eurosport, so you could say I’ve reached the final of every grand slam since 2002 when I started that. I love what I do, and I love playing tennis with amateurs, regular guys, helping to teach them to enjoy tennis more.

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I am willing to take chances. I miss more, but I am going for it.

Mats Wilander

I think people expect me to be around at the end of a tournament.

Mats Wilander

I think someone like Denis Shapovalov on a fast court and being left-handed is a massive, massive danger to everybody.

Mats Wilander

Everyone has a temper, but in Sweden, no one throws a racquet or screams. We show more manners and common sense. This is a game, not war.

Mats Wilander

There is no such thing as bad luck in tennis. Just bad technique.

Mats Wilander

I don’t think there is anything missing from Tsitsipas.

Mats Wilander

I think every human being has good intentions in one aspect of life and some in every.

Mats Wilander

The point is to win the biggest tournaments and beat the biggest guys head to head. Then, if the computer ranking works out that you are No 1 in the world so be it.

Mats Wilander

That’s why the tactics are so hard against Kyrgios because no one knows what he is going to do.

Mats Wilander

If it doesn’t mean more to a normal human being like Dan Evans, who could change his life and career by winning not a gold but a bronze medal for Great Britain, if he doesn’t want to take that chance, I would say something is wrong with the Olympics in what it’s worth in tennis.

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Nadal is going to break all the records.

Mats Wilander

Maybe we can see more men’s and women‘s combined events so the young players can be marketed better.

Mats Wilander

Miloslav Mecir – best anticipation of any player in our generation for sure. The most flexible… and then crazy good hands. He is the best player in the world to not have won a slam, for sure. No question in my mind. He should have won three or four.

Mats Wilander

The biggest mistake we usually tend to make with young players is over-coaching.

Mats Wilander

I like to camp and to not have to check in to airports and hotels and I love to just drive, man.

Mats Wilander

The goals become harder to focus on when there isn’t a specific number in mind, or a title that you haven’t won.

Mats Wilander

Sure, it comes with a lot of bonus rewards, whatever it may be, some of it may be financial. And it is great to have been No 1 in the world, when you get a bit older you can reflect on it. But I was No 1 in the world before I actually was No 1 in the world, in my mind at least.

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There’s no way you can go out there and have a killer instinct on court, be selfish on the court, when there are more important things going on in your life, or in your heart.

Mats Wilander

I have fun playing tennis and I understand that the good things from tennis go hand in hand with attention. But it’s not important to me.

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I couldn’t ever be a better player than I was in 1988.

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I’m not Borg Two, I’m Wilander One.

Mats Wilander

The more happy you are off the court, the more you will get out of yourself on the court.

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I’m a private person and being recognized makes me uncomfortable.

Mats Wilander

To me, there are only a few tournaments that are important. The Grand Slams, Davis Cup, the Swedish Open; that’s about it.

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The slide is tennis.

Mats Wilander

When I first retired from the game, I had times in my life when the days just wouldn’t move.

Mats Wilander

More than half of the matches are won in the dressing room for him. The guy he’s playing against is sitting in the locker-room thinking ‘oh my God, I’m going to play Rafa Nadal on clay in five sets, that’s going to be painful.’

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The really top guys play within themselves 99 percent of the time.

Mats Wilander

Some tournaments wouldn’t work as men’s and women’s event but others would.

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You should play all the slams you physically can.

Mats Wilander

Ivan Lendl was the best player I ever played. He was the first guy to bring the game to more of a power level and you could know that if he played really well you could get blown off court and that wouldn’t happen against John McEnroe, Jimmy Connors or even Bjorn Borg or Guillermo Vilas.

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Maybe being number one has got to me, because from there you can only go down.

Mats Wilander

Nick Kyrgios, physically, is a monster. When he is on the court and he runs, he flies. And he has got a massive arm.

Mats Wilander

I think it’s bad in a way for junior players and college players to feel they must be number one.

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You have to hate to lose.

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