Being number two sucks.

Tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love - the basic elements of tennis are those of everyday existence, because every match is a life in miniature.

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

I play tennis for a living even though I hate tennis, hate it with a dark and secret passion and always have.

Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work. I had to put in the time to get back. And it was a grind. It meant training and sweating every day. But I was completely committed to working out to prove to myself that I still could do it.

What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.

When I was 7 years old I saw Jimmy Connors make someone carry his bag, as though he were Julius Caesar. I vowed then and there that I would always carry my own.