Occupation: Tennis Player Birth: August 12, 1971
When you come back strong, you are going to have little nagging things that you can usually play through, but every now and again, it is to the point….
I don`t know why, but I love the dog eat dog nature of tennis. It`s real, it`s brutal and there`s no hiding place - it's like a one to one street fig….
After I went through two years of not winning an event, what kept me going was winning one more major. Once I won that last U.S. Open, I spent the ne….
I guess I get my strength from my legs, which are also important in tennis..
In tennis, you can make a couple of mistakes and still win. Not in golf..
I am here for the goal, and the goal is to try to do it again..
There is no doubt about how hard it is to stay on top in any sport, but to do it in an individual sport for the majority of your career, it is not ea….
I'm enjoying my retirement, enjoying my life. I have two kids and a lot of my time is spent chasing these two animals..
I did it my way, and I have no regrets when I look back on my career that it was just a big focus for me..
A couple hundred people around, and I'm shaking..
That's not what I'm looking forward to, just being home and just kind of not really sure kind of what to do with myself..
If I win and play well, then the ranking will take care of itself. Defending points is really not a problem. Just go out and play and not worry about….
When you retire you want to get as far away as possible from the game for a couple of years..
The future is flying home. That's the immediate future. But long-distance future, I plan on being back. I'm not going to end my time here with that l….
I loved Wimbledon and what it meant, but the surface felt uncomfortable. I just didn't like it, I was a hard-court guy, a Californian kid..
As long as I feel like I can win majors and contend, I'll continue to play..
I don't think it really matters, who plays first. Whatever they do, they do..
I'm not going to give in to the critics. I'm going to stop on my own terms, not on when someone else thinks I should..
I want to end my career on my terms, not on what people think I should do..
Throughout my career, my mind rarely wandered, and I was never sidetracked by distractions, no matter what I was going through off the court..
I've always led a pretty simple life, with few extravagances. The money in tennis never drove me..