If I win and play well, then the ranking will take care of itself. Defending points is really not a problem. Just go out and play and not worry about it.

For so long people have just taken what I do for granted. It is not easy to do year-in, year-out, to win Grand Slams and be No. 1.

Baseball is America's pastime, and that record is absolutely huge in the States.

After I went through two years of not winning an event, what kept me going was winning one more major. Once I won that last U.S. Open, I spent the next six months trying to figure out what was next. Slowly my passion for the sport just vanished. I had nothing left to prove.

The only person that I have met, that I have ever been in awe of, is Eddie Vedder.

Once the US Open is over in the States, mainstream America doesn't really follow tennis, unless you are a true tennis fan.

My goal one day is to be in the same sentence as Rod Laver and Ken Rosewall.