I let my racket do the talking. That's what I am all about, really. I just go out and win tennis matches.
I hate to lose, and I do whatever I can to win, and if it is ugly, it is ugly.
Winning is about taking your opponent's heart out and squeezing it until all the blood has come out, even the very last drop. There are no prizes for a funny loser.
If I win and play well, then the ranking will take care of itself. Defending points is really not a problem. Just go out and play and not worry about it.
Choking is being in a position to win, and then experiencing some critical failure of nerve or spirit. That never happened to me. And I can't help but think it was because I was never afraid to lose.
All I cared about in tennis was winning.
I feel much more respected in Europe than I do in the States from the press and from the people. Americans expect me to win every match I play.
In tennis, you can make a couple of mistakes and still win. Not in golf.
As long as I feel like I can win majors and contend, I'll continue to play.
When you struggle winning matches all year and you don't really get into a groove or rhythm, you just can't expect to just come in here and have it click.
After I went through two years of not winning an event, what kept me going was winning one more major. Once I won that last U.S. Open, I spent the next six months trying to figure out what was next. Slowly my passion for the sport just vanished. I had nothing left to prove.
My serve was there, everything was just clicking. Those are the days you dream about, especially in a final.
For so long people have just taken what I do for granted. It is not easy to do year-in, year-out, to win Grand Slams and be No. 1.
