Zitat des Tages von Lleyton Hewitt:
I've probably put up with more criticism than a lot of people out there. At the end of the day, you block out everything, especially with your personal life.
I am two different people. What you see on the court is just natural for me. I wear my heart on my sleeve. I have always said 'C'mon' purely to fire myself up. Off the court, I am a lot shyer. I stick to my team and my family and people I trust.
There are people who love you and people who hate you, but for me, more so, people only think they know me by how I act or perform on a tennis court.
I'm more in that Rafa Nadal high-energy high-octane mold out there. I wear that emotion on the court. That's how I play my best tennis. People either like that or not. And I can't change that: that's who I am on a tennis court.
I don't have too much spare time, but I try to play games as much as possible. I played a little growing up, but I never played any tennis games before.
You always love playing in finals at any tournament. The grand slams and stuff like that are obviously the priorities but any titles go on your record.
I'm one injury away from hanging up the racket at any time.
I was lucky enough to win the Davis Cup in my first year in 1999. I won my first slam at the U.S. Open in 2001 and became world No. 1 later that year. By the age of 20, I'd done it all.
Even when I was No. 1 in the world, I was taking it one match at a time. I never was a player to look too far ahead, the way draws can pan out.
I'm not a guy who needs to read motivation books.
I liked Pat Cash, and I loved Mats Wilander. I went to the Australian Open with my parents, and I used to watch Wilander being cheered on by the Swedish fans, and with his game style being like mine, I drew comparisons with him.
Tennis players go into a press conference, and almost every one of them is the same. We do very little differently on a day-to-day basis.
Matches are won and lost so many times in the locker room.