Stan Wawrinka Quotes

All you can do is trust your game and not wait for the opponent to give you the match.
As a child, I was lucky to have the support of my parents because starting a tennis career is a very expensive adventure.
As a tennis player, you have to get used to losing every week. Unless you win the tournament, you always go home as a loser. But you have to take the positive out of a defeat and go back to work. Improve to fail better.
As far as fitness is concerned, you have to enjoy it, do good exercises, and integrate them into your tennis practice. The preparation for the season is as crucial as doing good blocks when switching from one surface to another.
By growing up at a center for people with special needs, I learned to always fight hard to achieve what I want. In this regard, I was incredibly lucky.
Coaching is very complex: it's like a puzzle, and many things need to come together to make it work.
Doubt can be good because it means you want to improve: you want to be a better person, a better player. But it's also good not to have too many doubts on the court.
Every match I won in a Grand Slam, I take confidence of that, and when I arrive in a final, I know my game is there.
Every minute counts. Being on time or not can mean the difference of a win or a loss and even of something positive or negative happening in life.
Every time I step on the court, I know I can beat my opponent.
For me, motivation is easy. I enjoy what I'm doing, and I'm lucky to play tennis. I enjoy the suffering. It's something quite natural for me to go on the court and suffer, and to go in the gym and to suffer, and to know the only way to get better is to work out - that's what I like.
I always try to find the positives in losing a match, but it's not always easy.
I don't really care if I play really well, well, or okay. I want to win.
I don't take anything for granted. In the beginning, my parents put a lot of money on the table so I could live my dream, without putting any pressure on us. We made our own way. But I've seen so many players come and go that I never, not for one minute, thought I could rack up millions on the tour.
I enjoy Indian cuisine a lot. It's delicious.
I enjoy putting myself in situations where you are nervous, but you need to enjoy yourself also. I've done skydiving, bungee jumping. I quite like those sensations - when you feel a little bit nervous and you don't really know where you are going. It's a quite good sensation that I love. I like the speed; I like everything.
I grew up surrounded by tennis, so I was obviously more interested in it than football - particularly as it's the most popular sport.
I had a very happy childhood. I was lucky to grow up surrounded by nature and animals, to be outside all the time, and to work on a big farm with my dad.
I have many good friends on tour.
I just have to play my best game. Not think about anything else - that is the only concern I have and that we should all have.
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Stan Wawrinka
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28 March, 1985
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