“I’ve always led a pretty simple life, with few extravagances. The money in tennis never drove me.”

“I made it look so easy on court all those years. No one realized how hard I had to work. No one realized how much I had to put into it. They underestimated my intensity.”

“I may be a step slower than I was before reaching 30, but I’m doing all the right things. I guess there are some guys who would take it easy in the latter part of their careers, but I’m stepping it up.”

“The years that I was # 1, I was probably a little bit too much consumed with the sport. I’ve lost enough hair to all the stress I put on myself. I’m married now and things couldn’t be better.”

“You need the game, you need the heart, you need the mind.”

“I want to end my career on my terms, not on what people think I should do.”

“I feel like as I started losing, I started getting more fans.”

"At times I felt I was pretty close to playing perfect tennis.”

“I had nothing left to prove to myself. My heart wasn’t where it needed to be. I’m at peace with it.”