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

Hell be lucky to last five or six years on those knees. What it might have to come down to is playing less on hard surfaces and playing more on forgiving surfaces.

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

There are things we can't control - like the wins and the losses.

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.

There are certainly great cities in America that don't have ATP and WTA events. Our fans are very provincial. They want American champions.

You can drill down on where hunger comes from and figure it out from there, but there absolutely has to be a sense of urgency if you're going to play tennis because you're the team - there's no one for you to rely on but yourself.