„Few people in our sport have ever trained as hard as Ivan or been as professional...People have always had the wrong impression of him. First of all, he's a very intelligent guy, very smart about tennis but just very intelligent in general...He's a fun guy, great company, someone who was completely different to the person you saw on the court. That was his office between those lines and he went out there with a job to do...No one could knock his record as a player but I don't think the media ever really wanted to get to know the other side of him.”