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I don't play to sweat, I play to win.

It's real nice and exciting for me to break the records, but it's more exciting for me to be on a winning team.

I don't feel right unless I have a sport to play or at least a way to work up a sweat.

I think that more than the winning, the weeks where I don't play well are what drive me the most.

The reason why I love to win is because I don't have to go through that feeling of losing. It's those times where I lose that feeling that will stick with me.

I never think about records. I focus on my race and try to get onto the podium consistently. It's hard enough to do that.

I've always said winning's the great deodorant, and conversely, when you have a bad record, everything stinks, and everything starts to unravel, and everything falls apart.

It wasn't my plan to create such a record. All I did was put in the effort to win every match I played and it went on for weeks, months and years until my defeat to Ross Norman in Toulouse in 1986.

I sweat. If anything comes easy to me I mistrust it.

When I woke up Sunday morning at the Open and stepped outside and felt the wind and rain in my face, I knew I had an excellent chance to win if I just took my time and trusted myself.