Love Expands

You have to believe in the long term plan you have but you need the short term goals to motivate and inspire you.

I definitely need to use my chances when they come because definitely there wont be many.

I have two lives, and all the problems I might have, I feel like I drop them once I step on to the match court.

I hope so. God, I’ve practiced so much that I you don’t want to be worse five years later. I feel I have a great game today. I know how hard it is to pull off those great shots, and I know how easy it is to miss, so I’m more aware of these things. But I’m so happy I’m at the age I am right now because I had such a great run and I know there’s still more possible.

I’m not the kind of guy who wakes up angry.

The more I lose, the more they believe they can beat me. But believing is not enough, you still have to beat me.

Early in my career, I had no consistency. Now I’m the most consistent player on the tour. It feels pretty good.

But so far I have the feeling that the chances are there to repeat last year’s season.

I did all the right things in so many tournaments. But like I said, sometimes in sports it just goes the other way. Maybe you’ve already won so much that it evens it out a bit sometimes. I don’t know.

What I think I’ve been able to do well over the years is play with pain, play with problems, play in all sorts of conditions.

I had a nice dinner. I let the evening unfold, flow. I like to sit in a chair with a wine glass. When I woke up, I thought, ‘Why didn’t I go to bed at 11?’ I came back at 3 and went to bed at 5.

I used to get nervous, you know if my parents would come watch. And then I would get nervous if my friends came and watched. Today it’s not a problem anymore actually, because now I enjoy it. I see that they, you know, respect me immensely, and I try to put on a good show and show that I can still play very good tennis.