Grigor Dimitrov Quotes

In practice, there is no consequence. If you miss a ball, you just pick up another ball and serve again, or you come back the next day and play. In the matches, every point has got a consequence. If you lose, you don't come back the next day and play.

If I'm ever in a position where I'm serving to win a grand slam, I'm sure that I will be feeling giddy inside. I will have sweaty palms.

It is always pressure out there when you are favourite for the match.

Every match I go into, I'm the huge favorite. I lose a set and it's, like, crazy.

I would say you feel a lot more pressure at a national tournament than a state tournament. This is more of a fun weekend out with the guys. The national tournament is more business.

When you are 16 there is no fear whatsoever. As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.

I'm more nervous about doing this than anything I've ever done before, because it is so prestigious.

As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.

I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large.

At this level, you put a lot of pressure on yourself as a player to perform and do well.

It's not a break until you hold your serve.

Before I pitch any game, from spring training to Game 7 of the World Series, I'm scared to death.

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.

Sometimes you can really serve well and win the match because of the serve. I have the opposite thing now, so it's kind of hard. I can just really play with my forehand and backhand.

In TV, you always feel you are standing on the tracks of an oncoming train.

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

The Olympics were the most pressure I've ever felt.

You can take 100 penalties in training, but when you go out on that pitch in front of all those people and the television cameras, it's completely different.

Pressure is when you play for five dollars a hole with only two in your pocket.

A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.

The best feeling is when you finish a point at the net.

Once you are on court, everything is different. I focus on the match.

I think the stress of being No. 1 in the world is more of a motivating factor for me just because I don't want to lose it.

I would hate to be in a situation where my entire focus was obsessing around the issue of whether we're going to win best picture.

I think I'm always nervous, even if I play not on the center court.