With everything else that would swirl around me when I got involved in it, tennis was my main concern.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
It was very hard for me to practice and enjoy my tennis, and I didn't know the why, so I worked with psychologists to try and see what was happening. They pushed me really hard.
Tennis is my life, obviously; I need to focus, I need to win. But it's not the only thing. I'm not going to play forever.
The tennis wasn't really very much on my mind, so it wasn't like I was thinking about it all the time.
Tennis is for me joy, nothing less than that.
Tennis doesn't owe me anything. Tennis is one of the fairest sports. It's given me so many extraordinary feelings.
Tennis is what I do and is part of who I am.
Tennis was never work for me, tennis was fun. And the tougher the battle and the longer the match, the more fun I had.
To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
I've been around tennis, and I have a feeling for the sport. I still play tennis, and I can still do a lot of harm to a lot of people.