Jo-Wilfried Tsonga Quotes

If you play tennis it is to have these moments, moments of adrenaline, where it gets dangerous. It is a bit masochistic.

I think Roger Rasheed is helping me to be more serious. Also, he can convey his passion for tennis. He loves the game. Also he’s enthusiastic about everything, about tactics, about what is happening on the court, and also physically he’s really pushing me. He wants me to do my best every day.

I’m not the most talented on the tour but I like to go to war.

Everything can happen in tennis.

Stupidity cannot be controlled, only contained.

I don’t need much to be happy.

Sports, it’s beautiful, because you can always do something.

As I always say each time I start a tournament, I want to go as deep as I can.

I try to be consistent in my work, and I’m sure it will give me some rewards.

I like to dress fashionably, it’s great.

Well, I like characters, players with personality, I don’t like flat people.

The court is where I can express something that I’ve got deep inside me.

Djokovic against Tsonga in 2008 is not the same as in 2010. He knows that I can play well and he knows that I can beat him if he’s not at his best.

I give a lot of myself every day. I never get rewards. That’s why sometimes, it’s tough.

Don’t spend your time dreaming, live life now.

Well, we’re working hard all the time. We have ambitions.

It is always something special to play Roger.

No, I’m not a bad loser.

When I come to London, it is always quite relaxing for me in a way, not just because it is one of my favourite cities but because it comes immediately after the French Open, which for me is a very significant tournament with lots of pressure.

You need the life of a champion. It’s always useful to have people around you who can help you doing that.

You can see Bjorn Borg, but when I watch some game of him I want just to take a nap, no?

I love being able to pass from a feeling of euphoria to one of calm and serenity.

It’s quite a good feeling when you win against 10,000 people.

Not everybody can beat the players I beat.

In regular life, I’m somebody pretty simple, pretty calm.

I’ve had good results on clay during my junior years and I enjoy playing on clay to the opposite of what many media can say.

Having a child changes your priorities. I am convinced, for me, it will be something very positive and give me even more motivation.

You can’t really hit on grass. There are lots of bad bounces, so when the guy plays deep into the spot where the grass has been worn down and he doesn’t leave you the time to play, you don’t have time to play fast yourself.

When you have the ball above the net height on grass, it’s easier to play, and when the ball comes at you more slowly, it’s easier to play. But when a guy hits hard and deep, I think you have to have been out there playing to understand, but it’s hard to really hit the ball.

Janowicz is more than just a big server. He moves well, has a fantastic forehand and good hands.

I like to be in Le Mans during the summer, of course because I have my family over there but also because the nature is just beautiful at this time and it’s in the country. There is a relaxing spirit in this place.

I love skateboarding and rollerblading, but I’m not really allowed to do it because of my tennis.

I like to play against Juan Monaco.

I hope I will have a family. A house, with a garden, will be nice. And I would love a barbecue! Just very simple things and a passion to work hard.

In our job you are constantly travelling, going in and out of different temperatures.

People have a different impression sometimes because of the way I’m on court, but outside, I’m nothing like that.

I’ve got a bit of the eccentricity of Africa and a bit of Western calm.

The most important for me, it’s to fight, give my best on court until the last point.

Facing a great server makes a match so much more difficult, even for the best players in the world.

I like to listen to Congolese music because when I was a kid with my father, he took me to play some tournaments in the car and always put on this music. I always fell asleep with this music so it’s good things that I remember.

Sometimes you go through a few tournaments without having a five-setter.

When I fly, it takes me two, three days to recovery, to be good physically.

I have been regularly confronted with racism, very regularly, and since my earliest childhood.

Sometimes you cannot do anything because the guy in front of you is playing well and he’s doing the right things to make you play in a bad way.

I played soccer and could have probably made it to the top league.

Among the things I love about London is that there is a lot of green space and that the buildings are not very tall.

We can all play on the court and share the courts with the girls.

When you play against Roger, it’s always special. First, because you play in a big area, in a big stadium anyway. And every time the crowd is for him, so it’s quite a good sensation.

My parents always taught me not to be a good tennis player or the best in what I’m doing, but to be polite.

I think the best match I played was against Roger Federer in the quarter-finals at Wimbledon in 2011, especially because I won this match after being two sets down.