The tennis wasn't really very much on my mind, so it wasn't like I was thinking about it all the time.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It wasn't my tennis that made me lose, it was a lot of different things going on, high drama, high emotion.
Tennis was always sort of a - a learning. It was a vehicle for me to discover a lot about myself. And the things that I sort of discovered at times I not only didn't want to see it for myself but I certainly didn't want millions of people to see it.
Tennis was never work for me, tennis was fun. And the tougher the battle and the longer the match, the more fun I had.
If I was the type of person who had tennis, tennis, tennis all the time and I went to bed and ended up dreaming about tennis, I would go nuts.
I never thought tennis was going to give me so much satisfaction.
It was so inspiring for me to watch tennis growing up. I thought I was really good playing, until my brother told me I wasn't!
There was never anything I wanted to do more than play tennis. Never once walked out there and thought, 'I wish I was doing something else.' Not once.
You know my dad pushed me to believe that I was going to be the best. I just never thought of life without tennis, even looking forward.
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.
With everything else that would swirl around me when I got involved in it, tennis was my main concern.