Daniel Nestor Quotes

I actually wanted to be a tennis player.

Winning a Grand Slam is not something I'll think about.

I want to win a major, and hopefully I can win the four majors in one year.

I definitely think about lifting the big trophies, and I dream about winning slams or making it.

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

I won my second Grand Slam in one year. That is the best year in my career.

My goal is to be No. 1 and to win Grand Slams.

I didn't know I could even be a professional tennis player, honestly. All this is actually very, very unexpected.

To play 18 years as a pro and have a great college career, it's awesome.

If I was to win the U.S. Open or something, I won't play again for the rest of the year.

Since I was like eight, I always wanted to be playing pro tennis.

Of course, I want to win a Grand Slam.

I've always said that winning a Grand Slam title is what is most important.

The point is to win the biggest tournaments and beat the biggest guys head to head. Then, if the computer ranking works out that you are No 1 in the world so be it.

When I was a kid, I was always dreaming to one day be the No. 1 player in the world, to win Grand Slams.

Of course it's tough to reach the number one place and also winning grand slams.

Every athlete wants to win an Olympic gold medal, and I'd be lying if I said that's not what I wanted.

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

Of course it's one of my goals to win another grand slam. Wimbledon was great - so if it's Wimbledon again, that's fine - but I think I have the game to win the other grand slams as well.

You know, that's what every player strives to do is have a great career.

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 was a professional tennis player in my teens. I played mostly in Europe. I was top 10 in the world in juniors, and then I messed up my back. I had three herniated discs and that put a stop to it.

There's three things that as a professional athlete you want. You want to get to the big leagues, and I accomplished that. Winning a World Series ring, I got that. And then getting to the Hall of Fame. That's everybody's dream. Every athlete, they want to be up there in the Hall of Fame, mentioned with the greatest players to ever play this game.

I'm not the next Kournikova-I want to win matches!

The Olympics is not for tennis and tennis does not need the Olympics. It is not my goal in life to win a gold medal.