"I was between 2 and 3 in the world for two, three years. That's not exactly where I wanted to be."

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"I was between 2 and 3 in the world for two, three years. That's not exactly where I wanted to be."

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"If I don't practice the way I should, then I won't play the way that I know I can."

Practice, Play

"If you go to school and practice for five days a week, it still gives you two days you can go and see your friends, you can go to the movies, you do whatever you like to do."

Friendship, Movies, Friends, Practice, School

"I think talent is dangerous to have if you take it for granted. If you use it well and put hard work with it together, it's hard to catch that guy. And I think that's what you're seeing right now."

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"I'm certainly not sorry that there were some things I missed. You may think you're missing something at that time but later when you look at it, you didn't miss anything."

Time, May

"But to be fair, if you take players from my era to now, the game has changed and the players have many more shots. They use them differently than we did. The speed of the game has changed."

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"I don't make a habit of watching tennis matches, but I try to watch all the major finals. I try to make time for that. So unless I have something going with the kids where I can't, I try to watch, and I enjoy that."

Time, Habit, Kids, Tennis

"I got bad calls every match, and I never got an apology. So I thought it was rather strange."

Thought, Apology

"I just travel all the time. And I was just looking at the schedules now and starting the first week of October I will be every weekend with somebody at tournaments through Christmas. So it gets very difficult to just go away and not do that."

Travel, Time, Christmas, First

"But it's very difficult, I can tell you I played the Czech Open a few times and it's very difficult just to go on to a scene where the course is prepared differently when the greens are fast and he's not used to it and they're hard as a rock and he's not used to it."

Adaptation, Open

"Because in order to beat Jimmy, I had to get around the ball a little bit quicker so I wasn't always on defensive and catching the ball on last stride, that I had little more time. Once I was able to get little bit quicker, then it has helped me a lot."

Time, Order

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