You can work really hard, but if you're not training in the right way you're not going to improve and get to the level that you want to.

I was always really strict on myself about doing everything possible to prepare for competition.

Maybe sometimes I'm such a thinker, I reevaluate too much. Sometimes when it comes down to it, I really don't need to do anything, I don't really need to change anything. I need to just keep plugging away, working at it.

That's what really seems to be the more difficult aspect - to have the men break through and challenge the best players in the world.

It has been a difficult road this year, but still I look at every day as a new opportunity.

I think Pete Sampras has really reached his peak. About the only thing he doesn't do is cook.

It's difficult sometimes when you have somebody who is of a different culture trying to make light of something that is maybe not quite something that they understand.