Kevin Anderson Quotes

Even though I'm 32, I feel like I'm playing my best-ever tennis and like the best years are ahead of me.

I think I'm realising that careers for tennis players are very short. On the women's side now, players are starting to peak later on, but the average age is about 31, 32 when you finish playing, so I want to make the most of it while I'm young, fit, and healthy. I don't want to waste any time.

It was a tough year for me, '89, losing two Slam finals and losing another five finals. It wasn't until I won the Masters, or what's now called the ATP Finals, that things changed again. Suddenly I won seven tournaments in 1990 and became No. 1.

Tennis is a great platform for me to do well, and for sure, I want to be No 1, to win Slams, but there are more things that I want to do.

The key for me will be to play as long as I can and hopefully to be physically like Roger when I'm 36.

I am coming to the part of my career where I want to play more football.

There are a lot of men playing great tennis well into their thirties.

I've changed my whole life around, I've devoted my life for tennis instead of partying. I'm very happy, you know, I'm 27, I really feel like I have another 5 years left in me, and I still, honestly feel like I have still got the best tennis, best things ahead of me.

It wasn't until people started asking me what my plans were for the future - if I would go to college or go pro - that it really hit me what I wanted to do. I decided I wanted to go pro and try to be in Wimbledon.

I always knew that my best tennis was going to be in my late 20s.

Our best years are only ahead of us, so we got to continue to keep pushing.

It's not the days that are old, it's you that's old.

Don't give up on your own happy-evers.

I loved challenging myself every day. The weight room was my therapy for everyday life stresses. No matter what I was doing I always wanted to be the best.

If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.

The courage to work with ourselves comes as basic trust in ourselves, as a sort of fundamental optimism.

It won't do you any good to run if you're running the wrong way. I've developed a new philosophy...I only dread one day at a time.

There's a tendency for us to think that the secret of our success is something that is mystical and maybe someday my time will come. And it's certainly out there somewhere; it's around the bend; it's at the top of the hill.

If you take pride in your attainment or become discouraged because of your idealistic effort, your practice will confine you by a thick wall.

Attitude ... is the prophet of your future.

When I'm healthy, I can still pitch. I know I can still pitch at that level and get the results that I want.

Weve been taught that aging means decline of the mind and body , but that doesnt have to be the case. With TIMELESS YOU, I invite you to explore a different path , one where you feel youthful , vibrant and fit as you age.

I came out of that and said I don't want to go back to feeling depressed. So I asked myself, what can I be optimistic about, in terms of the course of the planet? And I discovered there was no end to the optimism I felt.

I'm like a fine wine. I get better with age. The best is yet to come.

I was a better player at 50 than I was at 30.