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

You have to want to play it all day, every day to get to the top.

Tennis is so competitive. I guess that's the way it has to be.

I never knew I was grunting, it was just part of my strokes.

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

I decided that I want to live the rest of my life happy with what I'm doing. So when I play tennis again, I have to play it for the right reason. I don't want to play to get my No. 1 ranking back. I don't want to play for the attention, or to earn more. I don't even want to play because the world wants to see me do it, even though it's nice to know that the world is interested. I only want to play because I love the game, which is the reason I began to play at age seven in the first place.

Life is not worth living if I cannot have pasta or bread again.