Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game – and do it by watching some high school or small-town teams.
No one is perfect. Everybody does stupid things.
I’m always searching for new music, and I change what I listen to on a regular basis.
If you don’t lose, you cannot enjoy the victories. So I have to accept both things.
Everyone is entitled to have their own opinions.
Honesty, willingness to exert oneself, friendship – all these things shaped me too.
Tennis has to be very careful.Not everyone is a computer, it is very good we have John McEnroe. I hope we have a couple more.
I think the tennis is only a game. You can lose. You can win. After that? In life, there are much more important things than tennis.
I am happy with being a tennis player and the choice I took when I was 12. But clearly, if I wouldnt have been a tennis player, I would have loved to be a soccer player. But again, I am happy with the choice I made.
I love basketball.
I don’t think we are so ugly that we should be seen as the devil and I don’t think Arsene Wenger and David Dein are so beautiful that they should be viewed as angels.
However great your dedication, you never win anything on your own
Some people may learn something from the way I play tennis. But there are also players who are better than me in certain techniques.
My serve can get better, for sure. It’s not just about serving bombs, but positioning, variation in speed, in spin.
Hard courts are very negative for the body. I know the sport is a business and creating these courts is easier than clay or grass, but I am 100 per cent sure it is wrong.
Where do you go when you’re the best in the world? What’s next?
All sports are continuously developing, but what they all have in common is that the speed is increasing. That’s also true of tennis; the ball is getting faster and faster.
I just try to win the match by fighting for every point, and running down every ball.
My uncle developed the training philosophy. His idea of good tennis training is basically quite simple: you must try to gain time.
For me, it is important to win titles and for that I need to work hard, stay healthy and be able to compete. The rest, I always say, it comes.
That’s the hard part about sport: as men we haven’t started to be in our prime, but as athletes we are old people. I needed support. I lost trust and did stupid things.
