But why should I read what somebody else thinks of my life when I know the real story?

Nothing's perfect along the way [in life], and you ride the ups and downs. It's how you come out of those and continue on that I guess really matters.

From where we lived, to practise in St Louis was an hour-and-a-half drive each way, so that took a lot of the time. So really, our lives just took different paths.

I am not looking to be understood or liked. Like me or not, I don't care. I am an outsider, that is the way I was brought up.

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

[In the modern game] you're either a clay court specialist, a grass court specialist or a hard court specialist... or you're Roger Federer...

People don't seem to understand that it's a damn war out there.