I like any title with the letters U.S. in front of it. To me, the U.S. Open is the most important tournament in the world.

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

Nothing is like being out there and playing and performing and winning - nothing. But to have an interest in the player? The nerves and everything that goes with it? Seeing what he's learned and how he's done it? That's the second best thing to playing. I think.

What works for the person you're imitating may not work for you.

Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it.

With everything else that would swirl around me when I got involved in it, tennis was my main concern.

Tennis was always there for me, which was lucky. I would go play baseball, basketball, football, hang with my brother, do whatever, and at the end of the day I'd come back and say, 'Hey, Mom, would you hit 15 minutes worth of balls with me?'