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.

I have adrenaline going and then focus on what I have to do and do it well. I know we'll have a good chance to win the match that way. I don't concern myself with the other team.

It's a serve and pass game.

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 didn't want to use anything as a crutch and ever have excuses heading into a match.

I had a bunch of different colored hats I wore. When I started wearing a pink one, we won five or six tournaments in a row, so I stuck with it. It started as superstition and now it's tradition—my hideous trademark that I always wear.

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