If you quit once, it's so much easier to quit the second, third, fourth time.

It's like one of those dreams you have when someone is chasing you. You're running as fast as you can, and someone's trotting behind you, just out of range, trying to grab onto you.

When you give your best, that's all you can ask of yourself, all that people can ask of you and all that god desires from you. No matter what the result, walk with your head held high.

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

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 didn't have the ability to blow people off the court, so I needed my legs, my preparation and the ability to think on my feet.

As long as there's pasta and Chinese food in the world, I'm okay.