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?'

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

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

When you're hot, anything can happen.

Tennis was never work for me, tennis was fun. And the tougher the battle and the longer the match, the more fun I had.

The minute you think you know everything about tennis is the minute your game starts going down the tubes.

[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...