3 December 2020 Novak Djokovic The tradition in Serbia has always been team sports – football, basketball, handball, volleyball and water polo, individual sports are not supported.
3 December 2020 Novak Djokovic It’s always easier if you have the support of your family, if you’re not alone. I came from a country that has been through a lot of troubles in the last 20 to 30 years, but we have been through them together.
3 December 2020 Novak Djokovic Serbian history tells that the family is the most important thing and you have to stick with the family.
3 December 2020 Novak Djokovic Imagine a part of the U.S.A., from which the U.S.A. started – where is the cradle of your history? This is Kosovo for Serbia.
3 December 2020 Novak Djokovic My mother is a special story. She went through so much to bring us up, four men at home, especially when our country was going through really difficult times.
3 December 2020 Novak Djokovic We have a harder way to succeed in life as Serbs because of the past that we had and because of the history we had.
3 December 2020 Novak Djokovic I want to help children in Serbia and around the world so they can realize their dreams.
3 December 2020 Novak Djokovic My father had never watched tennis, never liked tennis too much. He said, ‘OK, we buy a racket, we watch together,’ because we didn’t know anything. It was a process of learning together that made it more interesting.
3 December 2020 Novak Djokovic Those born into poverty or on the margins of society require our extra support to realize their dreams.
3 December 2020 Novak Djokovic The history of our country is cruel. We have to face those issues or, should I say, we had to. Not anymore I hope, because we are going in the right direction, and we are ready to forgive, ready to move on.
3 December 2020 Novak Djokovic People look up to me as somebody who is able to switch the image of our country from negative to positive.
3 December 2020 Novak Djokovic I stopped thinking too much about what could happen and relied on my physical and mental strength to play the right shots at the right time.
3 December 2020 Novak Djokovic My nutritionist has done a great job in changing my diet after we established I am allergic to things like gluten – I can’t eat pizza, pasta and bread. I have lost some weight, but my movement is sharper and I feel great.
3 December 2020 Novak Djokovic But, it’s because we have a harder way to succeed in life as Serbs because of the past that we had and because of the history that we had. We have to dig deeper and we have to do much more in order to be seen and to be spotted.
3 December 2020 Novak Djokovic My father never talked about the sacrifices that the family made for me.
3 December 2020 Novak Djokovic I’m a happy man, because I am successful in what I do, of course but what makes me most happy is I have people around me that I love and who love me back. This, for me, is the most important thing. Nobody likes to be alone.
3 December 2020 Novak Djokovic Even though now I’m pretty popular in my country and tennis is the No. 1 sport, and I’m very flattered that the people recognise me and come up and give me compliments, I’m more a person who likes to have privacy and peace.
