A biography for Mardy Fishhasn’t been written yet.
“I used to be very hard on myself at times - a lot of times, really.”
“I'd love to go back to the U.S. Open, where it sort of all came crashing down for me in 2012, and sort of conquer that place. And by conquer, I mean just get back out on the court there. I have a lot of demons from that place.”
“I was 21 when I made the the finals of Cincinnati and finished 20 in the world, and thought it was going to come pretty easy.”
“The most trauma I had was on the tennis court.”
“Some days are better than others, some weeks are better than others.”
“A lot of it is maturity and getting older. You know, sort of getting married and realizing you're not out there for yourself anymore.”
“It's hard to play somebody who is wounded.”
“I was at the bottom, man. I was in a deep, deep place. It wasn't like I needed a little bit of medication and a couple of therapy sessions, and then we're back.”
“It shouldn't matter, but I want to play the big matches on the big courts.”
“I love playing competitive golf because it's really the only thing left that I'm still pretty good at.”
“I was in the spot where you work your butt off to get to: the fourth round of the U.S. Open against Roger Federer on Labor Day. That's why you work so hard in this game and sacrifice so much - to get to that position.”
“Yes, it was fun playing the quarterfinals of Wimbledon. But I just wasn't satisfied. To have that one big win in a big tournament on that big stage - I don't have that.”
“All of a sudden, it wasn't quite good enough to make the fourth round of a Grand Slam, when my whole life before that it was an incredible achievement and something that I had only done a couple of times.”
“I was a guy who loved to be on my own at times and to travel and some of the most comfortable times were in the middle of my career flying overseas, where you have to turn your phone off and no one can get to you for 10 hours. It was just a really comfortable place for me.”
“I always wanted to be a professional athlete and really did not necessarily care which sport.”
“You see a lot of guys going downhill as they get older, but I'm going the other way, and that's because of diet.”
“There were times I felt I'd never get my life back. Am I ever going to be normal and go out with my friends and have a beer and not think I am going to wake up at 3 A. M. and have anxious thoughts about what normal people are doing?”
“You gain more and more confidence every time you go through tougher situations like traveling alone and sleeping alone.”
“I have some great memories from the Olympics I also have some tough memories from it as well, where I was so close to winning a gold medal.”
“It's just really humbling to know that your story can help people.”