I used to think that losing made you more hungry and determined but after my success at the Olympics and the U.S. Open I realise that winning is the biggest motivation.

There is a fear of emotion in tennis.

You are always talking about yourself and tennis and how you are feeling. I try to avoid it when I don't have to.

Normally I sleep for 9, 10 hours a night.

One of the worst things sin did for man was to make him selfish, for selfishness cannot love.

I never read. The paper or anything. I watch a lot of movies, and TV series and stuff. But I never, never read.

I am not stroppy at all.