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Stress is part of your career. You have to accept it and deal with it because there is a lot of emotion in tennis.
Tennis is a big puzzle. It's not any more physical or mental; you have to have all the pieces first, and then you have to put all the pieces together. For me, it took me time.
The first years when I came to New York, everything was too big and too much. For me, it was too difficult here, but bit by bit, it became one of my favorite places.
The only plan is trying to push myself the maximum to be the best player I can.
The ranking never lies.
The schedule is tough in tennis.
There is always disappointment, heartache. You are losing almost every tournament. You need to just accept it and be positive because you are going to lose and fail. We're not all Nadal or Djokovic, who can win most tournaments.
There's only really one way to be at the top, and that's practicing - practicing well and practicing hard. And enjoying what you do, because if you don't enjoy it then, it's always tough to wake up and go practice and suffer on the court.
Those big matches, when you go through so much, are the best thing. Those matches are why you play tennis.
To say that I won the French Open, it's something completely crazy.
Unfortunately, some younger player doesn't understand that if you want to get through, you have to sacrifice, you have to work hard, and there is no easy way.
When I was young, I liked to spend hours and hours on the practice court.
When I was younger, I was a little bit fat. I wasn't, like, big-time fat; I was just overweight - maybe around when I was 13 or 14. At that time, I wasn't practicing that much; tennis was just a hobby. But it wasn't easy to feel that way.
When I'm back home, I try to do as little as possible because I want to take time with my family. That's the most important thing.
When you don't play those big matches for a few years, it's tough to play back-to-back after that.
When you win a big title like the French Open, it's tough. The emotion in doing this is really up and down. Afterwards, you feel a little bit lonely, a bit of depression mentally. Because it's so much stress and emotion, so many people around - and then it's completely empty.
You always need to try hard to find solutions. It's the same in life or tennis.
You can always learn when you lose.
You can't underestimate rest. Sometimes in tennis we don't realize that to rest your body is as important as it is to practice. We are traveling so much, all year, in different conditions, different courts, different surfaces, different balls - so we always have to adapt.
You have to make sacrifices. You have to work out, to be relaxed in your mind, to focus on what you're doing.
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Al McGuire
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BirthDate
07 September, 1928
DeathDate
26 January, 2001
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