I never wanted to be the great guy or the colorful guy or the interesting guy. I wanted to be the guy who won titles.

I'm not worried about the weekend, I'm worried about Saturday.

People wrote me off, but I believed in myself. I got the confidence back, and it grew and grew. I won my first major and my last at the place that changed my life.

Golfers are forever working on mechanics. My tennis swing hasn't changed in 10 years.

Once the fifth set comes, it's a matter of nerves.

I hate to lose, and I do whatever I can to win, and if it is ugly, it is ugly.

It's one-on-one out there, man. There ain't no hiding. I can't pass the ball.

I let my racket do the talking. That's what I am all about, really. I just go out and win tennis matches.

Success is walking out of here with the title, and anything less is not good enough in my book.

You kind of live and die by the serve.

Anybody who has played sports and says they have never choked is lying to you.

The only person that I have met, that I have ever been in awe of, is Eddie Vedder.

I always insist on my jeans being ironed. Is that a problem?

People don't seem to understand that it's a damn war out there.

From where we lived, to practise in St Louis was an hour-and-a-half drive each way, so that took a lot of the time. So really, our lives just took different paths.

Tennis would be much more exciting if they had pitching machines firing Tennis was given to me to keep me off the street corners of east St. Louis.

With everything else that would swirl around me when I got involved in it, tennis was my main concern.

People say I'm around because I have a lot of heart, but I know all the heart in the world couldn't have helped me if I wasn't physically fit.

I like any title with the letters U.S. in front of it. To me, the U.S. Open is the most important tournament in the world.