Nick Kyrgios Quotes

I take pleasure in tennis and the hope that it requires.

No other game combines the wonder of nature with the discipline of sport in such carefully planned ways. A great golf course both frees and challenges a golfer's mind.

Tennis is a big puzzle. It's not any more physical or mental; you have to have all the pieces first, and then you have to put all the pieces together. For me, it took me time.

Wrestling just comes naturally to me. It wasn't like there was this moment where I said, 'This is what I'm going to do.' It's just what I did. It was my life.

It was a big pleasure to play a Grand Slam match on my birthday.

To have Serena in the Wimbledon final, I think, is the hardest match you can have.

The challenge for young players is always stepping into the next level in terms of how much faster the game is.

I started playing on a tiny table when I was 3 and then started playing properly when I was 10 or 11.

I was born a footballer. Before I could walk, I was chasing balls.

I've always been fast, it's God-given talent. I just try and use that to my advantage, but I'm learning more and more positionally so I don't have to rely on my pace so much.

You have to adapt and find your niche, in terms of the type of player you can become, both on and off the pitch. I always knew I'd have no chance against a 1.90m, 90kg defender in a duel, so the key is to avoid these situations altogether. You have to pick your space and time.

Some of the authorities would like to remove rhythmic gymnastics from the list of Olympic sports and turn it into art. I think this would be wrong, as rhythmic gymnastics is a true sport - we train around six hours per day and sometimes spend entire days in the gym.

I always just thought of myself as a tennis player.

I realised, 'I'm not going to dribble past five payers and score', so for me it was about having something different, and being two-footed was it. I pride myself on that now.

Whether I'd stopped playing professionally at 17 - or if I stop at 35 - tennis will always be a part of my life.

I box two to three times a week. I don't like going to the gym because it's boring. I really like boxing because you have to combine concentration and imagination. I feel like I'm actually learning something that's useful.

That's my every day: putting things aside and going out there and have two hours of concentration of tennis.

Fencing and shooting kind of came naturally. From the start, I knew that I had it in me.

I just turned 34 and feel like the best striker I've ever been.

I mean, I've definitely found my thing, what I'm good at. Certain things that guys do keep them in the NBA a long time, but I've found what I'm good at, and I'm only going to continue to get better at that.

With wrestling, I'm working all the time, I'm wrestling all the time, I'm performing all the time, and I'm making money all the time.

I just wanted to become a better player at everything - someone who is a real tough matchup to guard.

Tennis is very tough.

Tennis always fascinated me, because it made every demand: technology, tactics, physique, endurance. The competition of one against one has a very special charm.

I like a match that shows strength, stamina, scientific technique.