00:00He was grinding, giving a hundred percent,
00:02fighting every single point of every single match.
00:04Nothing could stop him.
00:09I think what Andy Murray showed the most is mental qualities.
00:14And I would say values.
00:15He's one of the ultimate champions in terms of mindset.
00:18When he has become number one in the world,
00:20he fought so hard.
00:22He was playing every single week,
00:24having incredible matches.
00:26He was completely exhausted, but he was so resilient.
00:28He never gave up until he got what he wanted.
00:31That looked like crazy from outside.
00:32I mean, to my point of view, he was too much.
00:35I thought, wow, how is he going to recover from that?
00:37The injuries that, in a way, destroyed the end of his career
00:41and that he will carry forever
00:42because he had huge surgeries
00:44are the consequence of the fact
00:46that he really passed the limit of what a human can do,
00:50which is incredibly beautiful in terms of sports values.
00:53If I have one word to describe him,
00:55I would say resilience.
00:56In sports and in life, actually,
00:58this is one of the most important qualities.
01:00It is what will stay when we will talk about him,
01:03think about him, of course, his achievements,
01:05the three Grand Slams he won,
01:06the number one in the world ranking,
01:09the two Olympic gold medals on grass in Wimbledon.
01:11In a way, he achieved all his dreams,
01:14playing at the same time as the three giants,
01:17Novak, Rafa, Roger, which is something incredible
01:20because only two guys during that whole period
01:22were able to win three Grand Slams,
01:23him and Stan Wawrinka.
01:25Even towards the end,
01:26and that's probably the reason why he couldn't give up,
01:30even though clearly he was struggling
01:32and the chances to do well in a Grand Slam
01:34were decreasing year after year,
01:36but he just couldn't give up.
01:38I don't know if people understood or not
01:39that he wanted to be back at the top of the Grand Slams,
01:41but that's what he wanted.
01:42If he had thought my best would be a second
01:45or a third one in a Grand Slam,
01:46he wouldn't be interested,
01:47but he really deeply believed,
01:48and that's also one of his trademark,
01:50he believed in him deeply,
01:51he deeply believed he could make it
01:53and until he would reach it,
01:55he would not give up,
01:56he would give everything,
01:57whatever tough experience he would go through
02:01because he went through crazy pain,
02:02physical pain because of his surgeries,
02:04then multiple other physical problems,
02:07a lot of disappointments with early exits
02:10in many tournaments,
02:11matches he could have won,
02:12but nothing could stop him.
02:14He was constantly back on court every day,
02:17grinding, giving 100%,
02:19fighting every single point of every single match.
02:21Again, that's his trademark.
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