Neil Robertson Quotes

If you're eight and you live in Los Angeles and everybody has toys and you go to a country that has a Marxist dictatorship and there are no toy stores and nobody speaks English and it's blazing hot every day and they only have fish, which you don't like, then you tend not to appreciate the cultural lessons you're learning.

Goals? I've achieved the main ones of winning the World Championship and being world number one.

It's a really good feeling in moving up the rankings so quickly because it's so reassuring that I made the right decision in turning pro.

There are so many really good players in the men's game that no one person can dominate year after year.

I travel to the Middle East, I travel to China, I travel to Europe. It's all very rewarding - the only problem is the travel is getting more and more difficult for me now. Ten years ago I would have enjoyed it a lot more.

My experiences of traveling abroad and going to Italy with my father, having to break down a gigantic electric chair to get on trains. You've got three minutes. You go to Pompeii and there are shockingly few accessible hotels in a city that was covered in volcanic ash.

I try not to make a habit of spending the whole year losing in the first rounds of events, but tennis is one of those sports where nothing is guaranteed.

The holidays are the worst time to travel, and ISIS aren't making things any easier.

In the late '80s and early '90s, I took success for granted, winning four or five tournaments a year. I just expected to win them.

When you play against Rafa, you have to play two hours and 40, 45 minutes.

When you play the Grand Slam, you have just to give everything you have.

You cannot just play tournament after tournament like maybe I did when I was 23, 24 years old.

The Rio experience for me is going to be completely different to London.

I found it difficult when I first started to travel around the world as a footballer. Hotels go from places you are excited to stay in to places you get tired of pretty quickly.

I guess getting used to sleeping on the tour bus has been the hardest thing - that and settling for whatever food you can get on the road.

Traveling is a part of the business. I think it's really the hardest part of the business because the wrestling part is the easy part - something I love and enjoy doing.

I love nothing better than immersing myself in different street cultures; exploring all those neighbourhoods in Tokyo was quite amazing, or visiting Morocco to see an Inditex factory.

With tennis, if you're very good at a young age, you don't even go to your prom. You're down at some tennis academy in Florida where you're on the court 8 hours a day. It's brutal.

I always watched these tournaments and want to be seeded and get the bye and be in the second week of Slams and all that.

I couldn't imagine being in Slipknot and not going to Peru or Argentina or Moscow or St. Petersburg.

I spent seven years in France. Then, I went to Asia for five years. I came to London in 1984 and then America in 1985. In 1991, I opened my first restaurant in New York City.

I have celebrated major successes with Germany on the pitch, but not only that, I have experienced so much off the pitch too, visiting countries and cities all over the world.

It's amazing to go World No. 1 on a win. I think is something I've always wanted to do.

But you are always remembered for how many Slams you win, not weeks at No. 1.

I'm a city girl from Seoul City, where I grew up, to Tokyo & Paris.