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To be a tennis champion, you have to be inflexible. You have to be stubborn. You have to be arrogant. You have to be selfish and self-absorbed. Kind of tunnel vision almost.

Tennis is an individual sport, and I am quite a self-conscious person.

It's that I have a good personality and am a good tennis player.

With tennis, no one's going to give it to you. You have to be determined.

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.

You are always talking about yourself and tennis and how you are feeling. I try to avoid it when I don't have to.

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.

When you do something best in life, you don't really want to give that up - and for me it's tennis.

It's one thing if you live in London and you're rooting for Chelsea or you're in New York and you love the Giants or Jets and no matter who's on the team you're into it. It's different in tennis; you're sort of your own guy, so you have to reach out and grab a person in a different way.

It's important to understand that you have to dedicate time to your sponsors, to have relationships with the people and the media, but it is also hard when you are first coming up and your primary focus is on tennis.