That's the key to success, isn't it? It has to be fun.

I never really did Christmas before. Christmas Day? I mean - what's that? What's it all about? I was always flying on Christmas Day

You will never have great tennis champions from England because of the cold and dark, but most of all because people only care about the sport for two weeks a year, and then they're on to something else. There's just not a great love of the sport there

I don't believe in playing hurt, in taking injections to cover the pain.

Tennis has to become everything to you if you're going to make it to the top. You have to live it.

I don't like salads: I like the strong food.

People think I must have been so talented at an early age, but I don't know - was it talent or hard work? Who knows?