A strong body listens. It obeys. A weak body commands. If your body is weak it tells you what to do. If your body is strong it'll actually listen to you when you tell it to do something. If you build it right you can overcome some of the obstacles of age and recovery.

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

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

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.

I've been criticized for not having perspective in the past and I thought that of myself many times but not there.

It never seizes to amaze me how much I enjoy playing here and how much you fans have meant to me over the years.

Pride is bad, stress is good. I don't want to feel confident. I want to feel rage. Endless, all consuming rage.