Because in order to beat Jimmy, I had to get around the ball a little bit quicker so I wasn't always on defensive and catching the ball on last stride, that I had little more time. Once I was able to get little bit quicker, then it has helped me a lot.
- Ivan Lendl Quote

But to be fair, if you take players from my era to now, the game has changed and the players have many more shots. They use them differently than we did. The speed of the game has changed.
- Ivan Lendl Quote

I don't make a habit of watching tennis matches, but I try to watch all the major finals. I try to make time for that. So unless I have something going with the kids where I can't, I try to watch, and I enjoy that.
- Ivan Lendl Quote

I got bad calls every match, and I never got an apology. So I thought it was rather strange.
- Ivan Lendl Quote

I just travel all the time. And I was just looking at the schedules now and starting the first week of October I will be every weekend with somebody at tournaments through Christmas. So it gets very difficult to just go away and not do that.
- Ivan Lendl Quote

I think talent is dangerous to have if you take it for granted. If you use it well and put hard work with it together, it's hard to catch that guy. And I think that's what you're seeing right now.
- Ivan Lendl Quote

I was between 2 and 3 in the world for two, three years. That's not exactly where I wanted to be.
- Ivan Lendl Quote

I'm certainly not sorry that there were some things I missed. You may think you're missing something at that time but later when you look at it, you didn't miss anything.
- Ivan Lendl Quote

If I don't practice the way I should, then I won't play the way that I know I can.
- Ivan Lendl Quote

If you go to school and practice for five days a week, it still gives you two days you can go and see your friends, you can go to the movies, you do whatever you like to do.
- Ivan Lendl Quote

Many times the players get in there and it's just about as well as they could have done, and other times they get in there and they favorites and they don't win.
- Ivan Lendl Quote