The suit-and-tie job is very nice, but it's not really who I am in my heart.
Every time you are not practicing someone else is.
Its silly to say it about a tennis player, but Im an unbelievable hero in Germany. And Germany needs heroes more than any place.
Does anyone ask their parents how they are conceived?
Tennis is a psychological sport, you have to keep a clear head. That is why I stopped playing.
When you are thrown onto the stage at 17 in such an enormous way, it becomes living on the edge because every step you take, every word you speak, every action you do becomes headline news. And it became, for me, life or death.