What separates the winners from the losers is that they can deal with doing their best while still coming up short.

It's really easy to find your friends when you're playing away. You have a close-knit group with you and everyone else is cheering hard for their side. There's more satisfaction coming away with a road victory.

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.

Tennis doesn't encourage any kind of intellectual development.

In America, we love to give people second chances too - as long as you admit you were wrong and come back and do it the right way.

Even the poor can be fat in the U.S.

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