Andy Murray
My fitness trainer's English, my physio's English, some of my friends are English. I don't have a problem with English people at all.Collection: Fitness
In tennis, it is not the opponent you fear, it is the failure itself, knowing how near you were but just out of reach.Collection: Failure
I'm definitely open to change, but at the same time I am quite stubborn.Collection: Change
For much of the year, you're just trying to maintain your fitness. It's not often you get a lot of time to really concentrate on improving it.Collection: Fitness
Staying more controlled mentally stemmed from taking my fitness more seriously. When you're doing track work, sprints and so on, it's pretty painful, but that does make you feel better prepared and therefore mentally stronger when you're going into a match. You know, without a doubt, that you are strong enough to last.Collection: Fitness
I play fantasy basketball and fantasy football, soccer.
I've been asked a lot lately if tennis is clean or not. I don't know any more how you judge whether a sport is clean. If one in 100 players is doping, in my eyes that isn't a clean sport.
It's not the end of the world to lose.
If you want a player to serve and volley more, you need to teach them to do that more, how to move at the net.
The only pressure I feel is the pressure I put on myself to win.
Like most guys, I've always liked watches. I can always check the time on my phone, but having a watch is so much better.
Sometimes you're looking to play perfect tennis but it's not going to happen all the time and you have to accept it.
When I lost the Wimbledon 2012 final, I didn't know if I'd ever win a slam.
You have to go into each match believing you can beat all of the players.
It's easy to start over-thinking things and over-analysing things.
For me, by far, the Olympics is the biggest sporting event in the world.
Normally I sleep for 9, 10 hours a night.
A lot of times, the press guys ask why I take an hour and a half to come to the interview room, but if you don't do the massage and the ice baths and the stretching and the cooling down and the eating, and your opponent is doing that stuff, they already have an advantage.
I tend not to argue about things that I don't believe in.
One of the things I would have loved to have had was a family that worked better together, although I love my mother and father to bits.
I don't play any tournaments to come second best.
To be honest, I think bananas are a pathetic fruit.
I believe you should give 100% on the court, so I chase every ball.
Well, my mum's been a tennis coach - she coached me till I was 12.
I don't want a flashy car, just something that would allow me to stop using the Tube. And it would be good not to have to rely on my mum all the time, particularly when I have to listen to her singing in her car.
I am not anti-English, and I never was.
I am Scottish. I am also British.
Everything in tennis is so neat and nice but boxing has sport down to its essence; it is very pure and I like that.
There is a fear of emotion in tennis.
Tennis is an individual sport, and I am quite a self-conscious person.
When I'm in Miami I like to go and watch basketball, the Miami Heat.
When I'm at home, I enjoy going go-karting.
I used to think that losing made you more hungry and determined but after my success at the Olympics and the U.S. Open I realise that winning is the biggest motivation.
I think most players would love, at one stage in their career, to say, 'I've been No. 1 in the world.'
I've realised over the years I play my best when I have time to prepare for each tournament as best as possible.
A lot of athletes use sports psychologists.
I am not stroppy at all.
Contrary to my image, I do have a sense of humour.
You are always talking about yourself and tennis and how you are feeling. I try to avoid it when I don't have to.
I've never felt nervous in front of big crowds and in big stadiums.
Obviously you try to keep as much of your private life as private as you can.
People say to me, 'You don't seem that interested in interviews.' Well, you know, I'm not, often. I'm not going to talk tactics with the press, so you are left with talking about how you are feeling; for me, it is not the most interesting thing to be doing.
A lot of the players are very complimentary about each other; they embrace at the end of matches because the level of the tennis has been so good. I think that's something that tennis has got to be proud of.
When a lot of things are going the wrong way for a country, for a people, when you can't really think of anything worse than a war, you always try to take life on the brighter side and that's how I grew up with my parents.
Everybody always talks about the pressure of playing at Wimbledon, how tough it is, but the people watching make it so much easier to play.
Boxing, mixed martial arts and tennis are the hardest sports to train for.
When I'm training in December, I have to eat like 6,000 calories a day to maintain my weight. It's a bit tiring.
You can't focus on other people's careers. Everybody is different.
Having a normal knee would make life a lot easier.
When you have beaten guys a few times, you don't want them to think they know how you are going to play them. You have to try and find different ways of beating them. You have to do things they don't expect sometimes, put something unpredictable into your game.