In an upcoming segment on the TV show 60 Minutes, Novak Djokovic recounts spending hours hunkered down in a basement during NATO’s bombing of Belgrade. He admits to losing focus "because we were waking up every single night more or less at 2, 3 A.M. for two-and-a-half months. But the best thing about it...I always try to remember those days in a positive, in a very bright way...We didn't need to go to school and we played more tennis…"[The war] made us tougher. It made us more hungry, more hungry for the success…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. We have to dig deeper."
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