A biography for Mardy Fishhasn’t been written yet.
“I'd certainly like to feel I'm a better player than three titles, but it is what it is.”
“Physically, I definitely needed to change some things, get fit and get in position where I could be consistent without injury, and I've put in a lot of work to stay fit.”
“If I had three pancakes in the morning I'd be like, Oh, I feel a little full, did I eat too much? Maybe I ate too much, I don't feel perfect, what's going on?' It just snowballs.”
“I'm pretty lucky. I know I'm really good at what I do, and it's fun for me.”
“I played as many golf tournaments as I could. I killed time by playing and practicing. It's something I love to do; it's fun and I was good at it.”
“I'm obviously struggling to go out on my own terms.”
“If I never had any mental health issues, there's no doubt in my mind I'd still be playing.”
“There is no tournament to win for mental health. There are no quarterfinals, or semifinals, or finals.”
“It took me months and months to get back to normalcy - to have a glass of wine at dinner, to go out to a movie with my wife. Just those normal things that you take for granted I wasn't able to do for a long time.”
“It's been well chronicled that I've had a lot of losses in finals.”
“In those years between 2010 and 2012, I was so consistent, not only on all surfaces, but just in terms of entering a tournament and winning matches.”
“The truth is you want stress in your life. You don't want an actual anxiety-free life. What would the fun be there?”
“For the first three months after the U.S. Open, I had retired and nonretired in my head almost every week. And there was a while where I was done. I had gotten it through my head that I was done, when I was just trying to get my normal life back.”
“I regret not being able to mature quicker.”
“It's just been kind of hard trying to figure out what I can and can't play. Everyone is so competitive and you watch your friends doing well and you feel helpless at times.”
“My diet wasn't terrible but it wasn't great either.”
“Everyone is in their own bubble with stresses, pressures, and expectations on themselves - no matter what job title they have. Mine just happened to involve playing in front of a lot of people, but my issues would be no different from any other person's.”
“With my anxiety, I essentially need to be around someone at all times.”
“Anytime you can beat a player that's going to go down as one of the best of all time, that's a good win.”
“The more and more I spoke about it, the more I found out how many people deal with it, the more I read about it and researched it, the more you start to realize how many Americans deal with some sort of mental illness on a daily basis. That gave me comfort.”