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A final of a grand slam is always a matter of details. Maybe a point here, a point there will make the difference. Maybe someone who is a bit more gutsy than the other player, someone who is having a better day than the others.

Winning a Grand Slam is not something I'll think about.

When it's your chance to step up to the plate, just hit it out of the park, and everybody will forget about everything that came before.

Winning a Grand Slam changes everything. There is so much off-court stuff to deal with. And there are expectations of keeping it going that make it tough.

In tennis it's easy to get greedy - and one Grand Slam doesn't feel enough any more.

I never expected to win a Grand Slam because, for me, I was not good enough to beat those guys.

He sliced the ball when he had it on a plate.

That's one of the great oddities of baseball: Success is relative. A hitter who fails 70 percent of the time at the plate is a potential member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, and many World Championship teams lose more than 70 games during their title-winning seasons.

I always tried to watch the pitcher and his complete windup from the moment he had the ball in his glove all the way through his motion, and tried to follow it all the way out of his hand, all the way to home plate.

You get to the plate and nothing is going through your mind. You see the ball, you see the seams.