Success doesn't always come in the form of a trophy. Keep striving for success.
I suppose you could never say never, but my experience would tell me that the most successful players in the world are gonna come from an environment that is more competitive at an early age.
It's easier to live with disappointment than regret.
You don't cheat anybody out of their experience, whatever it is.
Tennis is a very objective sport in the sense that the scoreboard doesn't lie.
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.