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What I want out of tennis is not necessarily just winning.

If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life.

I think the tennis is only a game. You can lose. You can win. After that? In life, there are much more important things than tennis.

I really try not to read the tennis articles, because a lot of times they're guessing at how a player is feeling, and I like to keep myself kind of open minded about how I'm feeling, rather than have someone else explain to me what's going on.

I have always believed that my job is to try and give my best on the tennis courts.

As a tennis player, you have to get used to losing every week. Unless you win the tournament, you always go home as a loser. But you have to take the positive out of a defeat and go back to work. Improve to fail better.

I think it is very important to have a life off the court, and to me, it wasn't that hard to balance tennis and a relationship.

I have always been guided by striving to show the best that I could. That is what kept me going in tennis and it is the same now.

The first rounds of a tournament are always tricky because playing tennis takes a lot out of you.

When you start playing tennis, you don't imagine there's a whole bureaucracy behind the tournaments and all of that. You just think about winning the cups.