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

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.

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

You have to remember that I played longer than anybody else on the main tour; I played until I was 40, and then played another six years or so on the seniors tour.

Playing in front of 25,000 people and millions more on television, and performing and doing what I worked so hard to try to accomplish was, in my opinion, the ultimate. Do I miss it? Of course I do.

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

The trouble with experience is that by the time you have it you are too old to take advantage of it.