Without a doubt, there's huge satisfaction when a relatively smaller nation can take on a bigger nation and defeat them. There's a lot of pride in that.

If they had rankings in baseball, maybe I would have been able to do the math and figure out my chances of being a professional baseball player versus a tennis player. But that was the decision-maker for me, I just thought I was better in tennis.

Focusing on one thing can be tough, and people with fewer options are more apt to concentrate on what they're doing. There's probably something to hunger.

Tennis is still very successful in spite of itself.

There's no evidence that says that the money a federation has translates into success. I hope that that will change.

The airplane has had a big impact on my life.

It does take a great hunger to be successful at anything.