Many times the players get in there and it's just about as well as they could have done, and other times they get in there and they favorites and they don't win.
If you go to school and practice for five days a week, it still gives you two days you can go and see your friends, you can go to the movies, you do whatever you like to do.
I'm certainly not sorry that there were some things I missed. You may think you're missing something at that time but later when you look at it, you didn't miss anything.
It's flattering to be compared in any way to Tiger Woods, because he's the best player in the world.
Many tennis coaches are enablers. They need the job more than the player needs the coach, and if the coach needs the job more than the player needs the coach, he can't effect change.
If you lose, it hurts, but as long as you have fought hard, you can still feel good about yourself.
Not winning at Wimbledon is not going to bother me forever.
Tennis is basically a game where you try to create an opportunity for yourself to finish the point, because you can't wait for the opponent to miss anymore. Well, if you create an opportunity and don't take advantage of it, you let the opponent back to even, then you are just starting the point over, so you have to take advantage of them.
My serve and my forehand I pretty much always had, but my backhand was a made backhand. I worked on it for years.
You know how kids are. They like to do what parents do.
I like to compete.
I enjoy life. I always enjoy jokes.
If you become great, then you can become happy. If you're happy first, it's much more difficult to be great.
You have to focus on the process. You cannot be glued to the results.
It's very nice to see when somebody who wanted to work hard and is willing to put the work in gets rewarded for it.
I certainly don't lose any sleep if I lose a tennis match.
