I can walk around screaming, 'I have 17 Grand Slams. I have the record here or there.' When you can play for history and you do it, that's what is so really cool, is that you can then be compared to other greats or you've passed another great, even though it doesn't mean you're better than him. But it's just like that moment you've gone into the unknown where nobody else has ever been before.

Mentally, I'm not ever going to go away.

I always had the dream that, once I became No 1 in the world, that if I had a child I hoped I would have it early enough so the child can see me playing.

One of my big, big strengths I think early on in my career was that I could learn very quickly. You wouldn't have to tell me the things 10 times or 50 times until I would understand them. You would only have to tell me two or three times.

You can be stubborn and successful or you can give it up a bit and change things around. For me it's important to have a bit of both.

Seriously. I'm not playing to prove anything to journalists. I'm playing for myself, for my fans,to make people happy.

What I think I've been able to do well over the years is play with pain, play with problems, play in all sorts of conditions.