Being number two sucks.

When you deal with somebody in the heat of battle, you see the best or the worst of them. So when you get through all that there is a great deal of respect.

I don't always choose to stay fit by playing tennis, because that comes with its own wear-and-tear.

I had my moments for sure but I wasn't confrontational. And sometimes you get on the court and you'd find yourself very confrontational. It was all a discovery.

I got a hundred bucks says my baby beats Pete's baby. I just think genetics are in my favour.

In tennis you're on an island. Of all the games men and women play, tennis is the closest to solitary confinement.

No athletes talk to themselves like tennis players. Pitchers, golfers, goalkeepers, they mutter to themselves, but tennis players talk to themselves-and answer. Tennis players look like lunatics in a public square.