Grigor Dimitrov Quotes

The minute you think you've got it made, disaster is just around the corner.

I've always felt happy at Newcastle. But things have gone a bit differently for me since we got a new manager.

Stand-up and boxing are very similar. You're the only one out there, you're going into a fight, and you're going in with a game plan.

Just make the right estimation of your own strengths and weaknesses, and also that of your opponent.

Find out what the other team wants to do. Then take it away from them.

I like to go on the court and have a little bit of information about my opponent.

Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air.

Present asymmetrical advantages to the enemy before he presents asymmetrical advantages to you.

What you end up doing is you try to match your guy's strength against a place they can be successful. They're doing the same thing against us. Sometimes they have the edge, sometimes you have the edge.

Sometimes when you get to the press conferences, you hear you're going to play this person in the semifinals, and in the quarters, you're going to play her. And I'm like, 'Hold on a second.' First of all, you have to make it there. Second, your opponent needs to make it there. It looks easier on paper than it is in real life.

If you're playing against an aggressive side, you need to play an aggressive game.

You always have to reflect how you can become an awkward team to play against.

I think we can keep people off-balance and ultimately we have to go score points, score one more point than the other team.

Crisis is not a nine-to-five job... Crisis happens when you least expect it.

It's a scary thing when a team don't know who to match up to, whose night it's going to be on the offensive end.

We have to let our defense dictate our offense.

I'd rather be an athlete than a fighter, an athlete is going to go there and figure out the ways to win, see the holes in the game.

My approach is going to be all about winning games. All the rest of that stuff will take care of itself.

I try to exploit things against everybody; that's part of the game: beat the guy that guards me while you're beating their team.

This business can be so fickle, and a lot of times, hard work isn't enough.

In poker, you want to play the weaker guys. In chess, it's the opposite.

I'm not a big guy that watches technique from my opponents. I try to do what I do best and hope that my stuff is better than their best stuff.

I work a little bit of slower, methodical pace. I'm able to implement certain different styles depending on who my opponent is.

We prided ourselves at Oregon, where teams said they were going to try to beat us down and try to manhandle us, and maybe in the first quarter they were running with us, but it was just, 'Let's see how they are come the fourth quarter when they're tired, and they've had 70 to 80 plays coming at them non-stop.'

You have to be savvy. You have to be tactically aware, because that's what makes the difference in the big matches.