Grigor Dimitrov
In order to be the best, you have to be around the best.Collection: Best
It's good to have a good teacher, but you always need a pretty good student.Collection: Teacher
With the right set of mind, with the right people, with the right support, things happen.
I have so many different interests in so many areas that sometimes I just need to chill, step back, and let it be.
I am always wearing a bracelet, necklace, and watch. I don't even care if they don't match.
As long as I don't overindulge, it's OK for me to eat burgers and ice cream occasionally. As for alcohol? I've never tried it.
Tennis players have the ugliest feet.
There is always a dream, for me, in the locker room before matches as well during the day. If you have a strong mind, a strong tendency to keep you strong, I think your dream is coming.
I'm just going to have to keep working on what I have to and keep chasing my goals.
I'm the kind of guy that I cannot just lock myself in the room and just think tennis for 24 hours.
There is no shortcuts. Play your best tennis, give your heart out, and anything can happen.
I think the first step is definitely Top 5. From there, you can sort of see the end, and that's the top. In order to do that, you need to win Slams and big tournaments. That's just proven. There is no other way.
You're going to play a lot of tournaments during the year, a lot of traveling. If you have a good set of mind, you're committed to the work, you want to do that work, and you definitely got to do it. Doesn't matter if you have four, five, six losses in a row, that doesn't have to discourage you to stop all of a sudden.
I love design; to create stuff from ground zero is the best for me. I'm always so intense when I talk about that.
I have always been an admirer of Feli, Feli Lopez. He's just - I mean, every time - he's, like, fit and good and his long hair and the beard.
I think, losses, I think they teach you the most, but it's tough. I'm not gonna lie. It sucks. It's terrible. You can't sleep for two days.
One of the scariest things for any athlete, I think, is pretty much the off season.
I think 2014 was, like, throughout the whole year, I had this fantastic year.
At some point, you have worked so hard in your life and your tennis that you don't want to be too much up and down. You want to do what you have done and eventually get better.
You've just got to take things the way they are and accept them and strive.
Of course there is a lot of things you can work on and change and all that, but first I think you should look at yourself before you actually start trying to find excuse in the other people, whether it's going to be coach, physio, family, or whoever else is on your side.
Wimbledon is a very special tournament, and for me, it's one of the best events.
You have to forget you are playing against your idol, because the guy on the other side also wants to play better than you and beat you. I don't think you should allow yourself to think like this when you go against any player.
You never know how many times you're going to be able to come out on Rod Laver Arena and just play.
I am always focusing on what I can do better for years down the line.
It's always tricky to play against a player who you've never played against.
One tournament can change everything for you. You never know when that tournament might be.
Tennis is one of those sports: whatever you put in, you get out.
There's a lot of distractions in New York.
I think people enjoy seeing my kind of game.
My dad taught me how to play tennis, and I owe that to him. But the better you get, the higher you climb, and the more lonely you get. I've had to sacrifice a lot of personal relationships, but that's the choice I made.
I'm terrible at relaxing and holidays. For me, a day off is going to the gym. I could never just lie on the beach and read a book.
I'm a very good sleeper, especially during a tournament; I usually get eight hours a night, even before a big match.
When you step out on the grounds of Wimbledon, you feel that respect, you feel that heritage, feel the history.
I know what I have to do in order to do good.
Who wouldn't want to practice with the No. 1 player in the world?
The first time I heard 'Baby Federer,' I was maybe 16. After that, it sort of took off.
At some point in your life, you need to sit down and say, 'What do I want to do? How do I want to be remembered? What's my legacy? And what's important to me?'
It's very hard to look at the man in the mirror. Because you can't hide anything.
I can take five showers in one day.
I don't like taking showers in the locker room after a match.
I get manicures and pedicures because I don't want to be one of those guys with messed-up hands and feet.
I think when I was younger, I was struggling to kind of differentiating love from a personal love or a tennis love or whatever else. There was time that I wasn't sure how to deal with both things in the same time. But you learn. I guess we grow. I mean, I don't want to say I've learned from my mistakes, but I've learned myself a little bit better.
All I'm focused on is playing my game. Everything else will take care of itself.
I've always been a very easy-going person.
I don't want to say 'gullible,' but when I saw someone, I always thought that person is the way they present themselves.
The majority of decisions, I've always taken by myself.
I even remember the first contract I ever signed. I was 13 or 14... my dad said, 'It's your choice. It's your life.'
It would be difficult to pick out one shot as my main strength, as I like all my shots, and I can do anything on any surface.
I believe in my abilities, as when I get things right, things happen for me.