When you make the schedule, you're not planning on playing deep into every single week, or at least I haven't in the past. I'm not physically or mentally ready to pick up my bags and go to Monte Carlo. I definitely have to look at what's best for my chances at (at the French Open).

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At one point in your life, you'll have the thing you want or the reasons why you don't.

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Most players who play tennis love the game. But I think you also have to respect it. You want to do everything you can in your power to do your best. And for me, I know I get insane guilt if I go home at the end of the day and don't feel I've done everything I can. If I know I could have done something better, I have this uneasy feeling.

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I'm convinced being a tennis analyst is the easiest job in the world.

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I enjoy hitting tennis balls. I haven't lost any of the innocent parts of tennis. I just do it in front of less people.

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The key to the match might have been his serving. Maybe I should have concentrated harder on watching them go by me, I don't know.

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Once you get to a certain level, anybody can beat anybody else on any given day.

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For every bad moment I've had, there have been 25 positives.

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I do understand that when someone gives you a [expletive] load of money, you take that money. Someone like Larry Ellison wants to invest into his event and make it the biggest possible, and he gets stopped by the ATP. If you're a start-up, what would make you want to navigate through that and to go through that firing line? How can you step into tennis with any confidence? It's the stupidest thing I've ever heard of.

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I cook a little - I've never taken classes or anything - but enough to get by.

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I've become better at the net. I've got a 135 mph serve so I'd be stupid not to follow that in. Overall I'm a better player than I was last year.

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No, if I wore a sleeveless shirt, people would try to feed me after the match. If you got the guns, go for it. I got two breadsticks sticking out of my sleeve. I'll stick with sleeves.

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My serve has killed a small dog ... I'm joking, I'm joking! The dog was huge!

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The only pressure I feel is what I put on myself.

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You can get the true essence of New Yorkers by just hanging out in Central Park

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Tennis analyst is the easiest job in the world because whatever the person does, if it works you just say that's what's good, and if it doesn't work, you guys go, 'He should have done the other things.'.It just doesn't take much thought. If I'm grinding and I'm winning, you guys are like, 'He's reinvented himself.' If I'm playing like crap and pushing, then, you know, 'He's horrible and he needs to hit the ball.'

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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.

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If nothing else, I'm a decent quote.

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If I can break one out of every three return games, I'm going to give myself a shot in a lot of matches.

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I still don't believe I won the U.S. Open. It's so far-fetched for me.

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It's pretty high up there on the list. Being able to return a serve at that speed is one of the biggest things that separates the professionals from the recreational players.

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