Grigor Dimitrov Quotes

I like my groundstrokes, I can say. I like it. That's my game - I'm a groundstroke player and I play pretty aggressive.

I first started out by hitting a ball against a wall when I was four.

We had a court in our backyard, and I would mess around with the players on my dad's team. I hit with two hands on both sides, which I didn't stop doing until I was about 8.

I'm a decent tennis player. Good backhand.

Tennis is basically a game where you try to create an opportunity for yourself to finish the point, because you can't wait for the opponent to miss anymore. Well, if you create an opportunity and don't take advantage of it, you let the opponent back to even, then you are just starting the point over, so you have to take advantage of them.

I watch the ball fiercely to see its height and speed off my opponent's racket so I can decide how I want to hit it.

I served, she came to the net, it was a passing shot.

I think I'm a very powerful player; I can hit good groundstrokes.

I think I have a lot of room for improvement. My serve is okay, but I need to work on a lot of things: return, transition game, backhand.

Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.

Tennis is a running game, not a hitting game - it's not golf.

Against Serena, you never know how she's serving.

My serve - it's really important for me.

My serve is my biggest weapon.

I started by hitting balls against walls with an apple crate board.

I have been working on my backhand since I was the age of five. And it's a disaster, my backhand, so I'm working on it.

I'm really happy to be back on the court to play tennis, to really do what I love.

Most guys aren't getting a racquet or putting balls back in off my serve most of the time.

My favorite shot is always gonna be the forehand. It used to always be my favorite shot when I was young, so it's the one I've won all the points with.

My serve and my forehand I pretty much always had, but my backhand was a made backhand. I worked on it for years.

Good shot, bad luck and hell are the five basic words to be used in a game of tennis, though these, of course, can be slightly amplified.

Tennis is for me joy, nothing less than that.

I have a strong tennis arm.

Well, I like to - the game of serve and volley, but it's very tough, you know, against the best players because they return so good and their passing shots are really good. So it's really tough to get there with those players.

I grip very close to the butt of the racket. This allows me to get a lot of wrist action to create more spin and whip.