Gael Monfils
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I think I'm both lucky but also unlucky, because sometimes I miss so many matches.
Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Luis Suarez all play at a really impressive level and are consistently excellent.
It's not easy to recover from jet lag.
Well, I'm never on time.
When the guy is too good - you know, playing clean and you're playing very bad, I mean not that good - you need to change.
For me tennis is a sport, you know? It's not a job, it's a sport.
Well, sometimes I just feel like I want a Coke, you know? And I drink a Coke.
The dream is to win a Grand Slam and that is what I'm playing for and training for. It's tough, but I believe that maybe one day I'll be lucky enough to win one.
France is my home.
I play very tough tennis, you know.
I think when I dive on the court, I dive not for people. To be honest, I gonna hurt myself for people?... I dive because I want to win the point.
When you have movies who help, who give belief and show strength, it's good.
Basically every match I receive some racist comment, and you can cross some racist person.
Each sportsman behaves differently.
God gave me such great abilities, and sometimes that's a strength and sometimes it's not a strength. It's just the way it is.
I think people, they love me because I play with my heart, I fight.
I'm just myself on the court.
It's always something special with me. You never know how and what I can do on the court. I think that's why the people like that, a little bit a mystery part of me.
I have always known about the quality of Asics products, so when they approached me, I was really receptive. They explained what they would like to do with me, both in terms of design and marketing activities around the world. They came with a long-term approach, which is very rare in this industry, which appealed to me a great deal.
Asics shoes are known to be the best in the world and I am sure they will limit some of the injuries that I had before.
Asics has a machine that measures every single angle of my feet. With this information they made customized shoes for me and I have felt great the minute I put them on.
People need to understand that if I dive, it's because I know I can dive.
I'm a believer but to reach the top I have to believe more, endure more. When I do two hours of practice, I need to add 30 minutes more. I need to feel something inside to go further.
When you change, you change with what you got. What I got is my speed. I got a little bit of my instinct and flair.
Sometimes luck is on your side, and everything works.
I think I'm a guy always pumped up.
Any energy, I take it. Even if it's for me or not for me, I take it.
Grass is not natural for me, but I am getting better. I have to focus on not falling, not injuring myself. I cannot take off as fast as I want to and I have problems braking.
If you want to do big things, it's never easy.
There are so many tournaments when I started this way. I was so shy. I didn't really play well. And then all of a sudden I found the very strong, powerful Gael Monfils.
Everybody's talking a lot in my ear, so it's tough sometimes. I try to stay with my team in my bubble.
Sometime haters would say or misunderstand how lucky I am to doing what I'm doing, to be healthy and play my sport and passion.
When I'm on the court, it's a blessing.
You have to push yourself.
When I fight for a cause and I know it, I fight for it. I'm not scared to say something. I think some tennis player, maybe they're a bit scared, whatever is the reason. Definitely, some athletes, they fight for big cause. They speak it loud. I think it's great. It's great for sport. It's great for life.
I'm just saying sometimes great to play smaller court, with the crowd very close. We can feel their energy, the passion, yeah, the love in it. I love it, to be honest. It's great.
Yeah, I just a lucky man.
I come from nothing.
I'm happy. I'm always with a smile.
I think I know how to try to play the best, and to play the best sometime is to improve.
I create music; I create painting; I create whatever I want to create. I create, what you say, clothes. I create, I don't know, dance move. I create anything.
I think everything I do in my life I try to have fun, and I try to be creative on the tennis court, outside the tennis court.
People think that jumping or do trick shot is gifted. Yes, it's gifted but is a lot of work. I won't say I work on the trick shot, but it's like I think physically I'm one of the best.
I'm very blessed genetically, you know.
You know, when you make the show, honestly, it's to entertain, but it's to win. So what's the point to make the show and lose actually?
I'm not a sore loser.
I think I want to show fans what it is actually like to be an athlete. Tennis is a part of it, but there is also another job that people are not aware of, the media commitments we have, and I want them to understand this.
For me, it is easy, I love sport. Tennis is something I enjoy. I love playing tennis. For me, working out is pure pleasure, every day if I could play tennis, I would love it. I have been doing this since I was 2 1/2-years-old, it is quite easy.
Like all designers, sometimes my mood can be very flashy, but sometimes it can be dark. Or happier. It all depends on my mood.