The 5-Minute Interview: Fernando González , Tennis player
'I try to do what is best and not to worry what others think of me'
Monday, 18 June 2007
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Fernando Gonzalez, 26, is currently ranked No 6 in the ATP Rankings. At last week's Stella Artois Championships, he made the quarter- finals.
If I weren't talking to you right now I'd be ...
Resting, because I have to play later.
A phrase I use far too often is ...
I don't really know. Maybe when I'm speaking in Spanish there are some but not in English.
A common misperception of me is ...
I don't really know. I don't really care. I try to do what I think is the best and not to think about what other people think of me.
I wish people would take more notice of ...
Many things. Like what? I don't know ...
The most surprising thing that happened to me is ...
I'm too young. I haven't seen anything very surprising yet.
I am not a politician but if I were I would change ...
So many things! Too many to say. But firstly I would help poor people.
I'm good at...
My best thing is tennis but I also like fly-fishing. I've been doing that for one or two years but I don't have enough time to do it as much as I want to.
But I'm very bad at ...
When I'm living in a hotel I leave my clothes everywhere - all my stuff everywhere - and I can never find anything.
You know me as a tennis player but in truer life I'd have been ...
Maybe a football player. I'm quite good. I used to play when I was a boy.
The ideal night out is ...
When I travel, I miss my people and my places, so when I go home I like to spend time with my friends and my family.
So my ideal night would be dinner with my family and afterwards I would spend time with my best friends. At home, my family have a lot of barbecues. I love to do that. And then with my friends, we would maybe play cards, have a good time, do what we want.
In moments of weakness, I ...
Try to think.
The best age to be is ...
The one that you are. When you get older, you realise that at every age you have a different stage of life. I have a lot of good things to remember of when I was very little but as you get older things can be good too.
In a nutshell, my philosophy is this ...
You should try to be in peace with your world: Do 100 per cent with whatever you do and give it everything you have.
Alice-Azania Jarvis
