You know my dad pushed me to believe that I was going to be the best. I just never thought of life without tennis, even looking forward.
Tennis was always sort of a – a learning. It was a vehicle for me to discover a lot about myself. And the things that I sort of discovered at times I not only didn’t want to see it for myself but I certainly didn’t want millions of people to see it.
It has meant a lot to me to challenge the best players in the world and to beat them. And it means a lot to me to be out here and fighting for the title and, you know, it hurts not to win it.
I can live with losing, I can’t live without taking my chance.
Yes, for a long time but I admired her and respected everything that I could sort of see in her from a distance, the pillars of her life, the loyalties, the relationships. It all got my interest and also the looks.
Well, you know, I’ve bonded with a lot of people over the years, you know. We played the same tournaments year after year and we go back to the same place and many times the seats have been full and that has meant the world to me for sure.
Pride is bad, stress is good. I don’t want to feel confident. I want to feel rage. Endless, all consuming rage.
Well, I actually tell my son that I don’t have any hair because he asked me the same question that I gave it to him when he was born, so he actually still believes that. He’s five years old.
It means a lot to you, to be out there. The highs are pretty high, and the lows are pretty low. You know, it’s easy to feel like you let the team down. I mean, at the end of the day we still got to figure out a way to get through the tie.
That’s the greatest applause that any person will ever receive in their life when it comes from their peers.
I’m going to wake up tomorrow and start with not caring how I feel.
My father actually moved out from Chicago just so he could play tennis 365 days a year, so it was – it was a place we played every day. We played before school. We played after school. We woke up. We played tennis. We brushed our teeth in that order.
Hitting a ball dead perfect – the only peace.
There’s no such thing as an open draw. At least for me – I mean, obviously for Roger Federer, I think every draw feels open for him – but for me there’s no such thing as an open draw.
My only good result in 1997 was marrying Brooke Shields.
My feelings are Yevgeny Kafelnikov should take his prize money when he is done here and go and buy some perspective.
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Now that I’ve won a slam, I know something very few people on earth are permitted to know. A win doesn’t feel as good as a loss feels bad, and the good feeling doesn’t last long as the bad. Not even close.
He thinks it’s his day, and when you think it’s your day, it usually is.