I won two ITF tournaments in Japan in two weeks. I had to qualify for both of them, which meant that I won 16 matches in 15 days.
My job is to persuade people to toe the line and play within the laws of the game.
I think I have handled things pretty well last year and this. What I have to do now is try do it even better.
Everybody always talks about the pressure of playing at Wimbledon, how tough it is, but the people watching make it so much easier to play.
When I'm training in December, I have to eat like 6,000 calories a day to maintain my weight. It's a bit tiring.
Failure doesn't means falling down; it means hiding somewhere to safeguard own interest.
What breaks you down is not the amount of pressure you feel at one time, but it’s the way you perceive and handle it.
I think if I believe in something strongly enough, I'm pretty outspoken about it.
I got to play in a crowd, play in Wimbledon finals, be the guy on a Davis Cup team for a while. Those are opportunities not a lot of people get.
The selfish thing about an athlete is you always look at the side of things where you say I could've done that better.
I don't have much interest in being on a senior tour. I don't think I retired so that I could be on tour.
I don't know that I've ever been someone who's interested in existing on tour. I have a lot of interests and a lot of other things that excite me.
The world is beset by many problems, but in my opinion, this hijacking of our brain's reward centers by electronic media is potentially one of the most destructive.
Giving gifts to others is a fundamental activity, as old as humanity itself. Yet in the modern, complex world, the particulars of gift-giving can be extraordinarily challenging.
I think instead [of happiness] we should be working for contentment... an inner sense of fulfillment that's relatively independent of external circumstances.
It's not easy to part with the trophies. However, I do need to have some long-term financial security for those close to me.
Basically I started playing double handed on both my forehand and backhand side because my first racket was very heavy.
My first, big, silly role at school was as Arthur Crocker-Harris in Rattigan's 'The Browning Version,' where my job was to make school-masters' wives weep with recognition.
There will be no politics, no ifs and buts; if we see something and feel that work needs to be done, we will get people here we can rely on and ensure it is done in the same thorough way as our other projects.
I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?
Most Italians who came to this country are very patriotic. There was this exciting possibility that if you worked real hard, and you loved something, you could become successful.
