If you get operated, something can go wrong and you can just say bye-bye to tennis. That's what happened to a lot of soccer players in Europe. They get operated, some things, it's not the mistake of the doctor. It's just some surgeries, they just don't go the right way...My injury will never go away. It's already become so chronic there's no chance to fix it so I can play without pain.

I've lived my life the way I wanted to, whether scaling the mountains, partying long into the night or having fun playing soccer.

Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.

From now until the end of the year I would like to eke out one victory, that's my short term aim. I am sure I can be competitive in 2004. Tennis is like riding a bike, you never forget how to do it.

I'm different than another person who wants to lay back and do nothing for rest of the life and talk nonsense on ESPN... I will not do that. I want to achieve something else.

My friend, there is nothing so sexy as a woman who is angry. Perhaps when she is even throwing things.

I've realized I can't waste any moment being unhappy.