RICKY DIMON GATHERS MEMORABLE QUOTES FROM WIMBLEDON, MEN’S VERSION, INCLUDING ANDY MURRAY, ROGER FEDERER, NICK KYRGIOS, AND BERNIE TOMIC

Written by: Staff on 16th July 2016

RICKY DIMON GATHERS MEMORABLE QUOTES FROM WIMBLEDON, MEN'S VERSION, INCLUDING ANDY MURRAY, ROGER FEDERER, NICK KYRGIOS, AND BERNIE TOMIC

epa05405559 Nick Kyrgios of Australia scores against Feliciano Lopez of Spain in their third round match during the Wimbledon Championships at the All England Lawn Tennis Club, in London, Britain, 03 July 2016. EPA/GERRY PENNY EDITORIAL USE ONLY/NO COMMERCIAL SALES |

Aljaz Bedene, on not feeling well during his first-round loss to: “Got the runny nose again today.”

Nick Kyrgios, on if he has an unfair reputation with chair umpires: “I’m not going to answer that question. Next question.”

Taylor Fritz of the US returns to Stan Wawrinka of Switzerland during their first round match of the Wimbledon Championships at the All England Lawn Tennis Club, in London, Britain, 28 June 2016. EPA/FACUNDO ARRIZABALAGA

Taylor Fritz, after being told that his mom also debuted at Wimbledon as an 18-year-old, and lost to Billie Jean King 6-1, 6-1: “I did not know that. That’s why I haven’t heard about it.”

Liam Broady, on Marcus Willis: “I think he used to be–I don’t think he’d mind me saying–a bit more of a social butterfly.”

Andy Murray, on not having to worry about the length of his shorts like some of the women with their Nike dresses: “I’ve never had too many issues with the shortness of any of my shorts or anything like that. Yeah, it’s obviously nice we don’t have to worry about that. Yeah, I don’t really know what else to say.”

Tomas Berdych, on the Zika virus: “Even if they are saying they are like 95 percent sure that it’s all fine and all clear, I mean, who’s going to tell you that those five percent or that mosquito with the virus is not going to bite you?”

Bernard Tomic, on arriving to the court seven minutes prior to Fernando Verdasco: “Unfortunately I had to stand on court like a retard.”

Roger Federer, on Willis: “This story is gold.”

Willis, on what memento he could take away after losing to Federer: “I can say I lobbed Roger Federer.”

Fabio Fognini, when asked for his thoughts on Italy’s soccer team even though “this has nothing to do with tennis”: “So don’t ask me.”

John Isner, on the advantages of playing on grass: “If I hit my spots on my serve, a lot of times it’s night‑night.”

Isner, on the Wimbledon towels: “I think that I was able to make out with six of them in this last match. Shhh. 1‑All, left the court. There’s two. Finished 7‑6, 1‑3, two more. Then today. There’s two more. I’m dishing them out like candy right now. Be nice to me, guys, I can give you a towel.”

Dan Evans, on if he had spoken to Willis: “Are you kidding me? Don’t get a word out of him. He’s a celebrity now. Just looks at his phone. Spoke to him yesterday; it was like speaking to a brick wall. Doesn’t speak. Just looks at his phone.”

Gilles Simon, on what he said to a tournament supervisor who ruled that the court was not too slippery to stop play: “So in the match you just see me on TV, like I’m pissed, yes, I’m pissed because I want to destroy him.”

Bernard Tomic of Australia returns to Fernando Verdasco of Spain during their first round match of the Wimbledon Championships at the All England Lawn Tennis Club, in London, Britain, 28 June 2016. EPA/HANNAH MCKAY

Tomic, after beating Radu Albot in four sets: “I wasn’t expecting the guy to play as good as he played.”

Tomic, on facing Roberto Bautista Agut: “You’re not playing a Djokovic, not playing a Federer. So I have to look at this match and go for it. Because if I do that, I should come out on top.”

John Millman, on facing Murray: “We start off at 0‑All…. But like I said, we start off at 0‑All…. So we are going to start at 0‑All.”

Stan Wawrinka, after losing to Juan Martin Del Potro: “It’s great for the tennis to see him back. He’s a great guy, a really good player; big champion.”

Kyrgios, on getting a code violation for telling the umpire he did a horrendous job: “Is that bad language? Have you never said a swear word before? Have you never said a swear word in your life?”

Kyrgios, at the end of his second-round press conference: “Great questions, guys.”

Viktor Troicki, to chair umpire Damiano Torella following an overrule that went against Troicki: “No! No! No way! Look at it! Come on, please! Look at it–once! What are you doing? What are you doing? Tell me, what are you doing? What are you doing there? What do you want to talk about? You’re the worst ever! Do you know what you did? In one moment, do you know what you did? You saw the ball, and I showed you the ball. It’s out. You didn’t see anything today. Are you aware of that? You made 30 mistakes.”

Isner, on the chances of Sam Querrey beating Djokovic after Querrey won the first set: “I would be a little surprised. I would not be shocked.”

Isner on his dad losing by 12 votes for a Congress seat in North Carolina: “Kind of funny that another Isner goes down to the wire on something completely different than tennis.”

Evans, after losing to Federer in the third round: “Obviously everyone dreams about playing Federer on Centre Court.”

Fabio Fognini, on Feliciano Lopez being upset with Fognini’s coach: “No comment.”

Roger Federer of Switzerland returns to Milos Raonic of Canada in their semi final match during the Wimbledon Championships at the All England Lawn Tennis Club, in London, Britain, 08 July 2016. EPA/FACUNDO ARRIZABALAGA

Federer, on the advantage of playing every match on Centre Court and avoiding rain delays: “Credit to myself for maybe winning as much as I did here in previous years that I do get put on Centre Court.”

Djokovic, on if he came into press just 20 minutes after losing so that he could get out of here: ” Yes. I prefer your questions can be a little bit shorter.”

Millman, on if he saw the scoreboard show Djokovic’s loss to Querrey during a changeover while he played against Murray: “It was hard not to, because the crowd started cheering. It wasn’t because I was drinking my water in some special way.”

Tomic, on Lleyton Hewitt not being at his win over Roberto Bautista Agut: “He would have loved to be there to watch, because I was on fire.”

Murray, on the criticism Kyrgios gets: “You guys try and wind him up the whole time. Every time he’s in here you’re trying to wind him up the whole time.”

Fergus Murphy, when asked by Lucas Pouille why he didn’t do anything when Del Potro yelled “shut up!” at Pouille loud enough for just about everyone to hear: “I didn’t hear it.”

Del Potro, on how he felt after losing to Pouille: “I got frustrations. I feel sad for my loss. But in the end that means I’m still having the fire on myself, and that’s good.”

Alexander Zverev, on being projected as a possible future world No. 1: “There’s been a million future No. 1’s that never got to No. 1. There’s always going to be a lot of talk. Yeah, there’s not really pressure.”

Kyrgios, on the locker room after Djokovic’s loss: “I think as soon as Novak loses, you look at Andy and you look at Federer’s eyes light up. They think that their chances probably doubled.”

Kyrgios, on being told he behaved well by throwing his water bottles in the trash before leaving the court: “Terrible question.”

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, on if he thought of Isner vs. Nicolas Mahut during his marathon win over Isner in the fourth round: “To be honest, yeah, once I said, ‘Maybe it’s going to be long like Nicolas.'”

Federer, on a big goal he wants to achieve in tennis or in life: ” In life, gee, I need to speak to my wife about that one; not with you in the press.”

Querrey, on who is the best on the putt-putt in the locker room: ” I heard that Feliciano Lopez made 14 in a row the other day.”

Tomic, joking about his upcoming schedule after losing to Pouille 12-10 in the fifth set: “Go straightaway to the clay courts and start playing.”

Kyrgios, on his performance in a three-set loss to Murray: “It was a good first set. The rest of the match was pretty pathetic.”

Kyrgios, on if he enjoys tennis: “I don’t love the sport. But, you know, I don’t really know what else to do without it.”

Kyrgios, on if he might walk away from tennis: “That’s a diabolical question.”

Kyrgios, on his exchange with Murray at the net: “He said, ‘Sorry.’ I said, ‘It’s okay; just win the tournament, please.’ Then we hugged.”

Murray, on the notes he reads before matches: “My notes have been stolen from one of the tournaments last year, so I’m sure you can find them online if you want.”

Berdych, on the difference between now and when he reached the final six years ago: “I’m six years older.”

Federer, on how he felt about his game after beating Marin Cilic in five sets: “I prefer to be here than booking a jet.”

Federer, after beating Cilic: “Today was epic.”

Reporter, to Cilic after he lost to Federer in the quarterfinals: “How much do you credit Goran for reaching the semis here?”

Andy Murray of Britain celebrates a winner against Milos Raonic of Canada in the men’s singles final of the Wimbledon Championships at the All England Lawn Tennis Club, in London, Britain, 10 July 2016. EPA/ANDY RAIN

Murray, to his team after holding serve to begin his fifth set against Tsonga: “There’s no way I’m losing this match!”

Federer, on his press conference after losing to Raonic starting with how he missed three crucial break-point chances: “Just don’t remind me of everything. Just get to the end of the question.”

Federer, a seven-time Wimbledon champion, after losing in the semifinals: “I totally overachieved here.”

Murray, when being told that Raonic said Murray sucked him into his style of play at Queen’s Club: “I don’t know what that means. I don’t know what I was doing to suck him into my style of play. I don’t know. I generally don’t know what it is I do.”

Raonic, on what he will take out of the two weeks: “I showed guts. I showed vigor.”

Raonic, when asked to predict how many times Murray will win Wimbledon: “Depends how many times he gives himself that opportunity.”

Murray, at his press conference the morning after winning Wimbledon: “I had a rough, rough night last night.”

Ricky contributes to 10sballs.com and also maintains his own tennis website, The Grandstand.

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