That's when you've got to grit your teeth and hang in there and try and find a way to win when you're not playing your best tennis - that's what I can be proud of
He'll go down as one of the guys who changed our sport in a lot of ways, not only the way he played the game, but also the way that he conducted himself on and off the court.
He's up there. But (Marat) Safin, on his game, is as hard to beat.
Tennis players go into a press conference, and almost every one of them is the same. We do very little differently on a day-to-day basis.
That's what you do all the hard work for, to play in situations that put your body through gruelling times. If you're not up to it, pull out.
I'm more in that Rafa Nadal high-energy high-octane mold out there. I wear that emotion on the court. That's how I play my best tennis. People either like that or not. And I can't change that: that's who I am on a tennis court.
There are people who love you and people who hate you, but for me, more so, people only think they know me by how I act or perform on a tennis court.
I'm not to eager to play tennis in my spare time. I'm more interested in doing gym work and stuff like that. We have a lot of schools and courts around where I live, so if I really want to play I don't need to go too far.
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