Grigor Dimitrov Quotes

If I'm going to be out there, I want to be in the top 10 and really have a chance of winning a Grand Slam.

I always wanted to be a professional player, but when I started playing well in Challengers and, for the first time, I did well at ATP tournaments, I saw that these guys are also beatable.

I think tennis is very different than most of the other sports when you have the opportunity to go pro. For me, it was pretty simple. Tennis was always an individual sport, and your direct results determined where you could go and what you could do.

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

As a kid, I wanted to be a pro tennis player. I was pretty good; at the tennis academies I attended, I always 'played up' against older age groups.

Being world No 1 would be fantastic but you'd like to do it by finishing the year as No 1 without anything happening off the table to someone else's ranking.

I moved to Spain, and at all the tournaments I'd play, I would be really good in my age. That made me realize that I could be a pro.

I never thought I was going to make a career out of tennis, to be honest, until I was 10 or 11 years old. One of my earliest memories is when I was seven, and I was competing against players that were three, four years older than me. I didn't take it too seriously at the time. I was having a lot of fun.

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

I want to play my best tennis and see how far I can go.

To be a professional tennis player you need to put in these sort of hours.

You always want to win. That is why you play tennis, because you love the sport and try to be the best you can at it.

I like playing tennis. I've always enjoyed the process of being a tennis player; I'm just not sure that I enjoyed the travel at the end, and my body didn't recover from the day-to-day grind.

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

In tennis it's easy to get greedy - and one Grand Slam doesn't feel enough any more.

Before I got addicted to comedy, I was seriously thinking about playing tennis full time. I joined the tennis team and played with a lot of professionals.

I once played amateur tournament tennis six months without double-faulting.

I saw Kyrgios down in Australia. He played some very good tennis, won two or three matches, and has done the same here at Wimbledon. I think Australia's got a good prospect in Kyrgios.

Of course, I want to win a Grand Slam.

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

That's the ultimate goal - to try to go deep into the Australian Open and deep into the other slams throughout the year.

The most important thing is definitely success on the tennis court. I know that if I win matches, everything else will fall into place, and the money and sponsors will follow.

All I want to do is to play my tennis and try to do the best possible on the court.

Tennis is my dream. It is what I love. And it is what I want to be best at.

I want to have better results at the Grand Slams, and of course, one day I want to be No. 1 in the world.