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Tennis is so competitive. I guess that's the way it has to be.

Tennis has to become everything to you if you're going to make it to the top. You have to live it.

Tennis: the most perfect combination of athleticism, artistry, power, style, and wit. A beautiful game, but one so remorselessly travestied by the passage of time.

Seems like most of the kids today are into other sports other than tennis.

With tennis, you can go pick up a racket, take a lesson, and understand how much talent and skill it takes to be as good as the top pros. Same with golf: pick up a club. But not many can go out and get in a race car and experience a drive at over 200 miles an hour.

In the pros, tennis is all about individuals. In college, it's getting individuals to make points for the team.

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.

Well, I think, you know, the university and the high schools are also important, but depends how I'm going to do in tennis - well, I hope. I mean, it depends, so I don't know yet.

Tennis is what I do and is part of who I am.

When you are very little tennis should be fun, it should be a game.