Lleyton Hewitt Quotes

I tried not to let all the criticism affect me, but it obviously does not go unnoticed.

I think it's an amazing quality to be able to roll with the punches and not be totally ruined as a person because life's been rough for you. That's a really admirable way to go through your life.

It's a healthy thing to get some bad criticism. I'm still here and I'm fine, but I'd be lying if I said it didn't get to you reading the negative stuff.

I think that all of us are 5-year-olds and we don't want to be embarrassed in the schoolyard. I've gone through things in my life. People say it must be so hard to do it in the public eye, but the truth is, when you go through hard things, it's just hard.

Some people it seems to me would like for me to crawl in a hole and disappear forever. That's just not in my nature.

There are certain things that bother me and certain things that don't. Personal attacks on me? I think I'm just so used to it.

I used to try to get revenge on the critics, but now I realize I've already won, and it doesn't matter what people say.

There's gonna be haters, but don't let them affect you, don't let them take away a part of you.

Your personal life, your professional life, and your creative life are all intertwined. I went through a few very difficult years where I felt like a failure. But it was actually really important for me to go through that. Struggle, for me, is the most inspirational thing in the world at the end of the day - as long as you treat it that way.

I am not very relaxed about bad reviews. But I am resilient. I grieve, curse and swear, put on loud music, and get on with the next job.

In my life I've gone through a lot of really hard times. I went through depression and had so many challenges that I overcame. And I overcame because I just decided to be happy.

My demons, inner strengths and physical battles have guided me through life.

We cannot always control everything that happens to us in this life, but we can control how we respond. Many struggles come as problems and pressures that sometimes cause pain. Others come as temptations, trials, and tribulations.

When you come from so many damaged places you don't ever want to spiral back there, so you gotta continue to check yourself.

For me, the stronger ground I have in my personal life, then the more will I have to fight the good fight.

I never got to the point of needing drugs or thinking about giving up myself.

When things have gone really wrong in my life, I've cried like a child. I have really, really cried. I cry it out. Two-three days I cry, and then I'm like, enough, time to deal with reality and figure a way out. This is the way I have dealt with everything.

Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?

I've been depressed many times in my life. But under it all I'm an optimist.

How you recover from what life's throwing at you is what matters.

I'm a creative person who had a lot of dark time in my life. I can still get to it: I can still go to a relationship or a time when things weren't great. But it's getting further and further from me.

I learned that you go through things, you deal with them and that's what empowers you and ultimately makes you a happy person.

The more people I reach, the more people there are that have opinions about me. Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.

It's important to talk about loving yourself and looking at your tragedies and the stuff that makes you grow.

I've got over so much. Mum wouldn't want anything to come into my life that would make me fragile again.