When you’ve done everything you can to train yourself for competition, you’ll sleep well when the tournament is over, win or lose.

The exercises helped get the flexibility back in my ankle and also increased my overall flexibility. As I was getting into my 30s, I wanted to do everything I could to improve my longevity.

I never did. I only prepared to win the next day.

A lot of guys are out there with their iPods. I'm not one of them. I just never really got into it.

It's hard to give a career like this up, when I tell my wife I'm going to the office, and it's the beach.

It was really an exciting time trying to find my way from being a boy to becoming a man—being toe to toe and eye to eye with grown men, even though I was only 11 or 12.

I want to be as self-reliant as possible and do it all from within.