I was a really good ice hockey player when I was a kid. Now in the aftermath I think I wasn’t maybe big enough, and I couldn’t have put on enough muscle to actually be able to play with the better guys, but I was a really good skater. Mats Wilander Read Quote
He didn’t have the best shots but the intensity of the match and the positive energy you got from playing Yannick Noah was something I didn’t get from anyone else. Mats Wilander Read Quote
Ivan Lendl was the best player I ever played. He was the first guy to bring the game to more of a power level and you could know that if he played really well you could get blown off court and that wouldn’t happen against John McEnroe, Jimmy Connors or even Bjorn Borg or Guillermo Vilas. Mats Wilander Read Quote
Del Potro is one of these miracle men he can come up with these matches where you least expect it and he pulls something out of the bag. I have no idea what it is but he becomes a magician. Mats Wilander Read Quote
I always feel that if you were the best in any generation, you most likely would have been close to the best in any other generation too. Mats Wilander Read Quote
Nick Kyrgios, physically, is a monster. When he is on the court and he runs, he flies. And he has got a massive arm. Mats Wilander Read Quote
More than half of the matches are won in the dressing room for him. The guy he’s playing against is sitting in the locker-room thinking ‘oh my God, I’m going to play Rafa Nadal on clay in five sets, that’s going to be painful.’ Mats Wilander Read Quote
When I was 14 I wasn’t even thinking of playing professional tennis. I was thinking of going to high school in Sweden then getting a job. Mats Wilander Read Quote
I play a lot of golf and I’m in a little ice hockey league at home in Idaho. Mats Wilander Read Quote
