Success doesn't always come in the form of a trophy. Keep striving for success.

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

Tennis is a very objective sport in the sense that the scoreboard doesn't lie.

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.

Life will throw everything but the kitchen sink in your path, and then it will throw the kitchen sink. It's your job to avoid the obstacles. If you let them stop you or distract you, you're not doing your job, and failing to do your job will cause regrets that paralyze you more than a bad back.

I'm going to go down swinging... I'm sure as heck not going to go home and say I had a bad tournament.

But, I would say when I was four years old and I was at the Alan King Tennis Tournament and I was hitting with all the pros that would come to town. They would get me on the court or take notice and that stayed with me.