Success is a nice thing because it always means you’ve taken a step forward and it gives you a sense of pride, which in turn gives you confidence and experience-a positive circle, so to speak.
Once you reach a good level in tennis it fills you with a lot of motivation. I hope I can do it for a long time.
I’m playing great tennis. I’m enjoying the tour, having fun with the fans off the court. I’m loving it now.
I have two lives, and all the problems I might have, I feel like I drop them once I step on to the match court.
I love tennis! I’ve always felt like this because it is such a classy sport with a great, competitive flair to it.
You can be stubborn and successful or you can give it up a bit and change things around. For me it’s important to have a bit of both.
I’m not the kind of guy who wakes up angry.
My family is the thing I miss most on the tour.
It’s not so simple to just stay in the moment and trust your game and your strength that you can turn it around.
Being down match point, it’s just not fun.
One of my big, big strengths I think early on in my career was that I could learn very quickly. You wouldn’t have to tell me the things 10 times or 50 times until I would understand them. You would only have to tell me two or three times.
I am thinking more and more about what I want to and can do after my days as an active athlete. Thoughts like family and marriage also cross my mind more and more often.
Hopefully I can just have another terrible year with only the one Grand Slam and that will be just fine.
Before, I guess, mum and dad were everything, but now, in my case, I had two new girls and all of a sudden they’re completely dependent on you and there’s a third generation. It’s a funny shift all of a sudden. You have the babies, you have yourself and then you have your parents.
One should just be able to play a perfect game.
I feel a bit awkward playing in a red shirt out at Wimbledon. But I don’t dislike it.
You can’t expect yourself to be already peaking like crazy in an exhibition tournament.
I’ve done so many interviews over the years in so many different languages. Radios. Papers. Magazines. There’s always another interview to do. It’s quite something, I have to say.
Oh, my God, I don’t think any player can look forward to or expect to a career of so many Grand Slam wins or title wins or being so long at the top of the game.
It is always in my mind still that I can crush anybody. That’s not an issue. But I think that is the same for most athletes. If you don’t believe you can win tournaments anymore, then you can’t do it.