David Goffin Quotes

I want to play my best tennis at the Grand Slams.

In Grand Slam, you play every two days, five-set match. You have a little bit more time to make mistake.

These days, men's singles is very hard. If you lose the first, you might lose everything.

It's hard to win Grand Slams.

It's a joke how tough it is to win a Slam.

To win a Grand Slam, you have to win seven matches in a row, and it's very different physically and mentally from other tournaments.

Maybe for a guy like Zverev or Federer, you could say it's open a bit. For a guy like me, every match is tough, and I'm going to have to battle it out.

You never know how long Federer is going to play, but in my opinion he has at least one or two more grand slams to win. It depends how long he stays motivated. For me, he is the greatest player to ever play the game.

I began playing in the Pacific Coast Indoor Tennis Championships.

I'd rather be able to play great tennis at a slam than make eight finals of little tournaments and then lose first round of a slam. That doesn't sound too good.

I think there's no reason the Davis Cup couldn't be as powerful and popular and profitable as any of the four majors are today, given some changes.

But I still serve pretty big and that's one of my biggest weapons, so if my shoulder holds up and I can count on it, I can win a few matches and then you never know how the other guys are going to react to the fatigue and the length of the matches.

As a kid, I wanted to be a pro tennis player. I was pretty good; at the tennis academies I attended, I always 'played up' against older age groups.

I think when you've played at the level that I've played, anything outside the top 10 in certain aspects is just a number, unless you're obviously trying to get into tournaments and stuff.

If you're playing someone you care about, it's tough, and I don't want to be in that situation. We are playing big matches for big points and prize money, and I take it very seriously. I relax when I'm outside tennis.

Generally, what I miss about tennis now is playing against the guys on the big stadium courts where the crowd are going nuts and roaring like crazy.

A major final to a tennis player is sacred ground. Short of any type of serious injury - soft-tissue tears, serious orthopedic injuries or a major illness like throwing up, dehydration or cramping - you keep going, especially in the final of a Slam.

The pressure of the World Series and the playoffs, it gets to you. But I hope I feel like that every year. Because hopefully we're playing into November every year.

For me, it has an extra value to be able to beat the Williams sisters in the finals, because they are just so good. For me, it's proof of being literally the best player in the tournament.

That's the ultimate goal - to try to go deep into the Australian Open and deep into the other slams throughout the year.

We've never had a hungrier player than Federer and Nadal and I would say that Nadal is probably much hungrier than Federer.

You know, Slams are tough. It's the most physical, in my opinion. You're playing three out of five.

To beat Serena, she's world No. 1, so it's always tough to beat someone like this. She's never giving up. Even if she's losing, not playing her best, it's always tough to beat girls like this.

I think women's tennis is so open. Anyone in the top 30 can do damage in the big tournaments.

That top 100 is a big barrier that every tennis player strives to break into.