My dad said if you become a tennis professional just make sure you get into the top hundred, because you have to make a little bit of money. You make a living so you can pay your coaching and, you know, your travels.

I've always been aware that the image you patiently construct for an entire career can be ruined in a minute. It scares you a bit, but that's the way things are.

I have two lives, and all the problems I might have, I feel like I drop them once I step on to the match court.

With all the injury problems we have in men's tennis at the moment, I'm happy to still be standing.

When you do something best in life, you don't really want to give that up - and for me it's tennis.

Once you reach a good level in tennis it fills you with a lot of motivation. I hope I can do it for a long time.

I am a very positive thinker, and I think that is what helps me the most in difficult moments.