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I would be really excellent in a horror film because I have a great scream. I'd be really good in a comedy too. I'm top, top, top quality.
I grew up watching my mom in the kitchen, that's how I know anything about cooking. I've always wanted to go to a culinary class actually.
The on-site catering facilities at Wimbledon are absolutely fantastic. Whatever your dietary requirements are, you can find what you need.
People sometimes come up to me and call me Tiger Tim. Why am I called that? I don't know, it starts with T and I don't know. It has stuck.
I have always considered tennis as a combat in an arena between two gladiators who have their racquets and their courage as their weapons.
The time during bombings was definitely difficult for everyone. My parents, they really protected me from it, and we came through together.
Everybody always talks about the pressure of playing at Wimbledon, how tough it is, but the people watching make it so much easier to play.
I loved to play, I was competitive, I wanted to win, that was all I knew. In the first few years tennis is a game. Later, it becomes a job.
It is a big adjustment but I've always loved that old saying of Jack Nicklaus: 'I retired from golf to go to work.' That sums it up for me.
I think, losses, I think they teach you the most, but it's tough. I'm not gonna lie. It sucks. It's terrible. You can't sleep for two days.
There are certainly great cities in America that don't have ATP and WTA events. Our fans are very provincial. They want American champions.
I thought doubles was a good way for me to practice and get some reps in - I didn't like to train in the gym as much as players these days.
I can't say I don't like acting, but I can't imagine a career when I have to spend 70 percent of my time in a trailer eating Snickers bars.
I'm 17 years old and there are many great things ahead. If I don't win the U.S. Open this year, it's not going to be a disaster in my life.
I mean, I think I'm doing a lot better than other people that have had shoulder surgery in their careers. Some people have never come back.
I went through very emotional things this year, like being in the French Open finals already feeling like you got it and kind of losing it.
I think I have a newfound respect for what my parents did, to create two players - one who was really good and another who was pretty good.
Everyone is fighting like crazy because it's the last Grand Slam. When you play the Grand Slams, you just have to give everything you have.
It's simple - I love food. I am travelling all-year round, so I have the chance to eat every food possible, so I am really lucky with that.
Tennis has always been my hobby and I love to play but it's also not a bad way to earn your living and it might help if children knew that.
Every Olympics is something special. If you're fortunate enough to play for your country - there's just so much energy. It's truly amazing.
That's what you feel as an athlete. Pretty much our job is to make the impossible happen every day. It's like magic, you know. I like that.
You can either feel sorry for yourself and lay down and cry, or you can actually learn from it and move on and find all the positives in it.
Playing against someone like Roger Federer is not easy. I had my chance today, but I guess I made a lot of errors. But I have no complaints.
I don't care now if I ever win a match in my life again. Whatever I do in my life, wherever I go, I'm going to be always Wimbledon champion.
I have always been the kind of guy to adjust to anything. I never cared where I was going to sleep or what court I was going to practise on.
We never got much in the way of material things, but if you can be spoiled by good cooking, my mom spoiled me three times a day all my life.
There is so much that goes in to being a good tennis player. It's not just what you can do well on the court, it's between the ears as well.
No one cares about the Davis Cup. How many people know I won five Davis Cups and seven majors, but that I rarely played the Australian Open?
I didn't get along with most of the players I played against, but the one guy I did get along with was my greatest rival, so it can be done.
I started faster today which was good. I returned well but my serve was good, which was the key. I think I'm getting used to the conditions.
I stopped thinking too much about what could happen and relied on my physical and mental strength to play the right shots at the right time.
I love women's tennis, and I want it to do well. But I don't want to pander. I don't have to be warm and fuzzy. I just want to be respected.
I'll never have a tattoo - I just don't like them, and when you're old they can look a disaster. As for piercings, I don't like them on men.
I've been getting my reel together. I think they are looking at me more as an actress because I have a lot of potential and a lot of skills.
The opponent has the chance to win the match, and I have a chance to win the match. It's open, and I have just to do everything I can there.
I've always enjoyed playing in Switzerland. The crowd support is amazing here, and Basel is one of the best indoor tournaments in the world.
I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I just want to be reasonably successful and live a normal life with all the conveniences to make it so.
I think I have done enough for sports and made enough of a name for myself to deserve some sort of backing - most of the other girls have it.
I lift weights. I'll do a lot of running, a lot of cardio and strengthening. I use my body weight, a TRX sometimes. A lot of it is endurance.
Being from Serbia makes us tough and eager to prove that we can come from this country that has been through so much and still be successful.
I'll be the first to admit it, the life I'm leading is basically a joke. I should probably be cooler about it, but I can't fake it, you know?
I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments. That's no contribution to society. [Tennis] was purely selfish; that was for me.
The most important words that have helped me in life, when things have gone right or when things have gone wrong are 'accept responsibility.'
When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman.
I've played this game from 12-under to the over-70s. So when they say tennis is a game from the cradle to the grave, you truly have it right.
I don't really care what the man on the street thinks. I never did anything to please him in the first place, and I'm not going to start now.
I start laughing every time because the media talks to me like I'm finishing my career and I only have one year left and time is running out.
I like to bake, so sometimes I do the desserts. I don't eat too much desserts, though, because I need to be able to move around on the court.
I have always been an admirer of Feli, Feli Lopez. He's just - I mean, every time - he's, like, fit and good and his long hair and the beard.