"It's very important to take tennis to the people. For young people, they get to see the best in the world."
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"There is a fear of emotion in tennis."
"Tennis is an individual sport, and I am quite a self-conscious person."
"Well, my mum's been a tennis coach - she coached me till I was 12."
"I wouldn't say I'm a spender in the sense that I'm going out on huge spending sprees. However, to be able to function at the top of your game on the professional tennis circuit often requires an element of frequent spending."
"Sometimes you're looking to play perfect tennis but it's not going to happen all the time and you have to accept it."
"It would have been better if I had won, but reaching the final was perfect."
"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'm a terrible musician. While the band members are great, I'm tolerated and affectionately regarded because I do movies, but if I had to make my living as a musician I would starve. I'm like a Sunday tennis player."
"The thing about tennis is if you stay off for two weeks, or just for three days, you can lose your rhythm quickly. So it's just a question of constant diligence and vigilance."
"To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things."
"I think business is the same as tennis. You have to have the love, that helps, or else it's just too much pressure to be able to keep up with."
"We've been training and playing full-time since we were 18 and 19. So after tennis, we'll be excited to see what it's like to have more free time."
"I just try to stay positive and focused on the tennis, not let anything get to me, like crazy questions. But I'm tough, let me tell you, tough as nails."
"Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business."
"Tennis is a huge part of my life, but I don't base my self-value or my self-worth or the quality of my life on my results on the court."
"I know I'm good at tennis. Other than that, everything else is a wild card. I'm a wild card."
"I guess tennis is my main art, but fashion is definitely very close."
"If I didn't play tennis I don't know where I'd be."
"They call him the Streak, he likes to turn the other cheek. He's always making the news, wearing just his tennis shoes."