I'm going to have to pick my shots and play great tennis.

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.

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.

Few of us are granted the grace to know ourselves, and until we do, maybe the best we can do is be consistent.

Tennis is at an amazing time when you've got two of the best players ever to play the game. You can argue the two very best playing in the same generation. It's a rivalry I think that we've never seen in our sport.

Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work

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.