Top 40 Andy Murray Quotes

The only pressure I feel is the pressure I put on myself to win.

It’s not the end of the world to lose.

Earlier in my career, I used to spend a lot of time practising my tennis on court. Now I’ve learned that it’s better to do just a couple of hours on court and two gym sessions a day. That’s what’s made me fitter and stronger.

I’ve never felt nervous in front of big crowds and in big stadiums.

Normally I sleep for 9, 10 hours a night.

I hate losing.

Tennis is an individual sport, and I am quite a self-conscious person.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I’ve realised over the years I play my best when I have time to prepare for each tournament as best as possible.

I do some 400 m. repetition running for endurance on the court. I’ll be in the gym lifting weights, or I’ll be putting in a lot of core stability to work to improve my balance.

I’m definitely open to change, but at the same time I am quite stubborn.

I just enjoy watching tennis. And there’s things that you can learn from the men’s and the women’s game.

I love music. I listen to a lot of it.

I believe you should give 100% on the court, so I chase every ball.

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.

I feel like I’m more a fan of tennis rather than it being men’s or women’s. I enjoy watching doubles as well when it’s on. I think that there are certain players that I enjoy watching on the men’s and women’s side. There’s some players that I don’t enjoy watching on both sides.

Well, my mum’s been a tennis coach – she coached me till I was 12.

It’s easy to start over-thinking things and over-analysing things.

I don’t play any tournaments to come second best.

I think most players would love, at one stage in their career, to say, ‘I’ve been No. 1 in the world.’

I play fantasy basketball and fantasy football, soccer.

You have to go into each match believing you can beat all of the players.

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.

When I’m in Miami I like to go and watch basketball, the Miami Heat.

I am Scottish. I am also British.

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.

I am not anti-English, and I never was.

Boxing, mixed martial arts and tennis are the hardest sports to train for.

There is a fear of emotion in tennis.

When I’m at home, I enjoy going go-karting.

For me, by far, the Olympics is the biggest sporting event in the world.

Sometimes you’re looking to play perfect tennis but it’s not going to happen all the time and you have to accept it.

I used a lot of sports psychologists when I was younger… sometimes it helped, sometimes it didn’t.

A lot of athletes use sports psychologists.

In tennis, it is not the opponent you fear, it is the failure itself, knowing how near you were but just out of reach.

One day for dinner I’ll have fish, then the next day chicken, and then I’ll have steak. I just try to mix it up all the time. I don’t eat the same thing every day.

I tend not to argue about things that I don’t believe in.