Trophies separate the winners from losers, and life is about winning and losing. Go into business and you see. You're competing every day.

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.

I think all of us who kind of live within the sport recognize that Davis Cup certainly could be a little more visible if perhaps there were some adjustments made to it, and it was made a little bit more easy to understand for the fans, if there's a little bit more of a start and finish line.

Trophies separate the winners from losers, and life is about winning and losing. Go into business and you see. You're competing every day.

We lose a lot of young athletes because tennis is such a difficult sport. It's not like kicking a soccer ball.

If you don't want to practice, unless you have a hard-nosed coach, you don't have to.

It's unfair to expect the USTA, just because they make this pot of money, to just snap their fingers and make champions. It's not simple, and anyone who thinks it is hasn't really looked underneath the hood to see how the engine works.