Lleyton Hewitt Quotes

“Oh, I get pretty fired up on the court. I try to play with a lot of emotion, especially when I'm playing in front of a large crowd. I want to go out and do my best, and to do that, I have to play with the most energy possible.”

— Lleyton Hewitt

“I'm not a guy who needs to read motivation books.”

— Lleyton Hewitt

“Matches are won and lost so many times in the locker room.”

— Lleyton Hewitt

“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.”

— Lleyton Hewitt

“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.”

— Lleyton Hewitt

“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.”

— Lleyton Hewitt

“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.”

— Lleyton Hewitt

“My video game character is a bit better looking than me, actually. I don't think he has to worry about his hair getting messed up.”

— Lleyton Hewitt

“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.”

— Lleyton Hewitt

I'd much rather win in three or four sets than go the distance all the time; I seem to put everyone through the wringer quite a bit.

— Lleyton Hewitt

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.

— Lleyton Hewitt

“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.”

— Lleyton Hewitt

“I have sometimes played my best Davis Cup matches away from home when you stay in the moment a bit more. But it is tough when half the crowd are spitting on you.”

— Lleyton Hewitt

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.

— Lleyton Hewitt

“I'm fortunate: I can play as long as I want to play. There's no coach or trainer who is going to say to me that I'm dropped or sacked, it's time to move on. I can play as long as I want to play.”

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“I'm not to eager to play tennis in my spare time. I'm more interested in doing gym work and stuff like that. We have a lot of schools and courts around where I live, so if I really want to play, I don't need to go too far.”

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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.

— Lleyton Hewitt

I'm one injury away from hanging up the racket at any time.

— Lleyton Hewitt

“When I was a kid in Adelaide, I dreamed of becoming No. 1 in the world, winning a grand slam and the Davis Cup for Australia.”

— 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.”

— Lleyton Hewitt

When I go out to play, I still believe I'm as good as anyone out there. I don't have to prove anyone wrong. I know what I've done and how well I can play.

— Lleyton Hewitt

“That's when you've got to grit your teeth and hang in there and try and find a way to win when you're not playing your best tennis - that's what I can be proud of”

— Lleyton Hewitt

“Everyone has to call 'time' at some stage.”

— Lleyton Hewitt

“That's what you do all the hard work for, to play in situations that put your body through gruelling times. If you're not up to it, pull out.”

— Lleyton Hewitt

I don't know. Haven't I always been mature?

— Lleyton Hewitt

“Maybe I have to work a bit harder on clay. It's a challenge and I've always liked challenges. Whether I will ever win the French and master playing on clay, who knows? But I'll give it a shot.”

— Lleyton Hewitt

“Ten minutes? That's the women. It's not for the men; not for the real game, mate.”

— Lleyton Hewitt

“Grand Slams are funny things. You have to try to find a way to get through the first week and put yourself in a position in the second week. A lot of strange things happen.”

— Lleyton Hewitt

“I think I was as mentally tough as I've ever been. I felt like I handled the situation both on and off the court extremely well. I felt like I needed to.”

— Lleyton Hewitt

“He'll go down as one of the guys who changed our sport in a lot of ways, not only the way he played the game, but also the way that he conducted himself on and off the court.”

— Lleyton Hewitt

“(Andy Roddick's) a different kind of guy. I don't spend a lot of time with him. His coach in the past (Tarik Benhabiles), I didn't have a lot of time for at all. He was a bigger problem than Andy.”

— Lleyton Hewitt

He's up there. But (Marat) Safin, on his game, is as hard to beat.

— Lleyton Hewitt

“Finally I'm really happy with the way I'm playing again after a couple of frustrating years.”

— Lleyton Hewitt

“I was actually really happy with where my game was at. That's probably the most disappointing aspect.”

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“Grand Slams are different. If you can get through a few matches, the draw opens up and you get confident. You just need a little bit of luck early, you get through those opening matches and you never know what could happen.”

— Lleyton Hewitt

“I feel like when I'm match tough and match hard and played a lot of matches I got that competitive winning spirit going and I can get on some rolls like I did last year. I won San Jose, Indian Wells and made the semifinals in Miami so it can happen for me.”

— Lleyton Hewitt

“I'm an outside chance at Roland Garros but my focus is really on Wimbledon where it is realistically between me and Roger Federer to win.”

— Lleyton Hewitt

“Maybe if you're playing in London or America, you don't feel that pressure quite as much.”

— Lleyton Hewitt

“I wanted to work towards the four majors and the Davis Cup. I know to a lot of people it may not mean too much, but to me (Davis Cup) means an awful lot.”

— Lleyton Hewitt

“Why'd you leave the match, huh?”

— Lleyton Hewitt