Who is Ivan Lendl? Are you kidding?

A beast. A beast. His pocket on the forehand was from the ground to his head. You hit anything near his forehand, good luck. He just didn’t miss balls.

He was the toughest guy for me to ever be on the court with. The 16th time I played him, I told myself: “Nobody beats me sixteen times in a row.”
And I totally chocked.

I’m sitting in the training room, with three bags of ice on my foot, and Lendl came over to me and he goes: “You know if I had 110 degree temperature and I was on my deathbed, I wouldn’t lose to you.”

— Brad Gilbert, in the 30x30 episode “American Son” commenting on the 17 year-old Michael Chang’s victory over in #1 player Ivan Lendl in the French Open in 1989