Jo-Wilfried Tsonga Quotes

If you take the chance to get to know me off the court, you'll see that I'm not the bad guy that everybody wants me to be on the court.

People are surprised that I'm nice and it helps me out a little bit; it's easy to be nice when everyone thinks you're going to be a jerk but if people think you're a nice guy then it's tough because it's what they expect.

I wanted people to see me, to change their minds about me.

People always think I'm so calm and ethereal. But my family certainly doesn't feel that way all the time. They tease me about it.

I would worry if people always associated me with Larry Sokolov.

I understand people have preconceived notions of who I am or what I do.

I suppose the common idea of me is that I'm going to be someone who's hyper and cracking jokes all the time, but people who meet me are soon disabused of that notion.

Usually when people see me, they see me as more of the soft-spoken one rather than being the witty, smart-tongued character.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

I think my own look makes people think I'm tough, but when they get to know me I'm very different.

All the people know Tomba, but not the real Alberto.

My public persona is badly warped and bears little resemblance to the person those closest to me know.

I am very different to how people think I am. It's the characters I play that they are responding to.

I read all the time that people think I'm arrogant. They say I am cocky, a bad character. I had that from a young age. But when they meet me, they say, 'That image doesn't fit you.'

People who don't know me look at my world as something very hard-core, and I don't feel it that way. It's not what attracts me.

Many people think I'm a television personality. I never have been! Just someone who acts it.

When I was in the ring, you really saw the best of me. Outside the ring, I was really some terrible fellow.

Actually, the curious thing is that the more you become a subject of admiration or loathing, the more you're examined under a microscope, the distance seems to open up between who you really are and the portrayals that people impose on you.

There's always going to be a separate version of you that people will create, and you have no control over it.

People think they know you. They know the things about you that you have forgotten.

People don't really understand who I am. They always think that I'm very dark or depressed, but it couldn't be further from the truth!

I don't know why people think I'm this ad-lib dude.

I think for such a long time people had this misconception of who I was and what I was about.

I think people are a little surprised sometimes at the level on which I actually talk. I don't talk like Caine. And every once in a while, somebody is surprised because I smoke and I drink. But I don't feel that is a contradiction.

There's probably some misunderstanding of who I am and how I roll.