Growing up not being the biggest guy around, you learn different ways of playing tennis. I’ve learned to adapt."

You can’t look in the future and can’t dwell on the past. It’s all about the present and what you do each day.

I am a strong believer in looking at the positives of everything and setting up your image for the long-term.

My long-term goal is to get as high as possible in the rankings, and to improve my game each day. If I am able to do that, my ranking should get better and better.

I would say, look, any fighter that's out there or any star athlete - not star athlete in the sense of a baseball player, but like a Brock Lesnar - that really wants to fight, we're going to have a conversation with them. Because if they can move the needle, we're going to want them on Spike TV.

Football will always be my foremost passion.

That's the thing with me being a former athlete: in the way I attack characters and attack poetry is from the base of being an athlete.

My parents were not big sports fans, but my mother loved Barry Sanders, but she wasn't a huge fan. Now she likes Calvin Johnson. He's such an amazing athlete and such a wonderful, humble guy.