Ana Ivanovic Quotes

You have no time to do the science if you're talking to the media.

Always be nice to bankers. Always be nice to pension fund managers. Always be nice to the media. In that order.

There has been evolution in many different areas - the way I read the game; the way I prepare the game; the way I train; the methodology... I feel better and better. But there is one point where I cannot change: when I face the media, I am never a hypocrite.

My goal isn't to be a top junior. It's to be a top pro.

A lot of people have said, 'Why not take a smaller school head job?' I honestly feel my growth was better being in a large program, being around Coach Saban, and learning how to manage a lot of the tough situations you deal with in the media.

I'm not afraid of the media. I think I know how to handle them because I've been around them enough.

You have to help your players understand that when they speak to the media, or when they tweet or text or e-mail, a lot of times, they become public knowledge.

I can deal with the media; I can deal with some of the criticism I get and still focus on what I need to do.

Every media appearance is a learning experience about the media outlet and their journalists and their feelings about you, so treat it as such.

I am very diplomatic when I'm in front of the media or when I am going out for promotions and stuff. But, usually, I'm a very straight forward person.

I am open with the players, with my media officer, and also the media.

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.

Before I started playing more on the WTA tour, I actually won most of my Challengers on the clay, especially at the very beginning.

Management is all-encompassing. That's something I've learned since starting this job. I find it very difficult to switch off. I can be at the cinema or out for a meal with my wife, and I'm thinking constantly about what my players are doing.

I always focus on what is next in my career.

I never thought I was going to make a career out of tennis, to be honest, until I was 10 or 11 years old. One of my earliest memories is when I was seven, and I was competing against players that were three, four years older than me. I didn't take it too seriously at the time. I was having a lot of fun.

As a business owner who is looking to market his or her company, you should be on the lookout for opportunities to get face time with movers and shakers in your network.

Journalists know other journalists - that's the only reason my engagement made it into the papers. I don't think real people are interested - just the media, just Twitter!

I did interviews with tennis greats, like James Blake and John Isner. I also interviewed tennis pros who aren't well - known but who made all the same sacrifices but had just a little spark of a professional career and are now still orbiting the sport, either as a teaching pro or a coach.

I don't like giving interviews unless I have something to talk about. Why bore people and why bore media?

I'm focused on football and my career. No one really has to doubt that. Outside, I do other things that make me happy.

My father and I talked every day. He coached me on how to cold-call companies I wanted in our portfolio, how to network at public events, to cultivate senior journalists at important outlets, and how to run a profitable P&L. But, more or less, he allowed me to make my own mistakes.

When you're a young manager and trying to build something, you work very, very hard.

I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.

This is what I've always wanted to do. I've always wanted to be a professional tennis player.