For the last five or six years the most important thing in my life has been my family.

Rather than viewing a brief relapse back to inactivity as a failure, treat it as a challenge and try to get back on track as soon as possible.

I've been kicked in the teeth more times in tennis than the law ought to allow.

Big money encourages tanking. In my opinion, tanking is going on even with a lot of the top guys today - it's quite evident.

Equality? They ought to play the women's final on opening day. Everybody knows who's going to be in it.

No, like I said, my dad was never really part of the tennis. His involvement around what I did with the tennis and with my mom and my grandparents was really not a part of my life.

Greatest thing in life: Winning a tennis match. Second greatest thing in life: Losing a tennis match