When you are a professional sportsman all the guys are great competitors in the top 50.

To be a professional tennis player you need to put in these sort of hours.

More than specific memories of achievements, for me I remember the feeling you get when you were just at your very best - when you felt like you were floating across the court and could put the ball wherever you wanted.

It's a tough world out there and all the guys are fighting hard and the competition is really tough.

Oh, my father's had a huge, immense impact on my career. I grew up on movie sets that he was working on, and it just become a part or was a part, was the only part of my life because I spent my whole childhood traveling and being on film sets.

I certainly never intended for myself an academic career and, were the academy to suffer, I'd just go do something else. I don't have a commitment to it or to really, frankly, almost any institution that assumes that it has to be stable forever.

If I give up my career as a skater simply because I fear I won't show my best performance, I would be really sorry later in life.

I think my mum wanted me to join the army or something, or become a surveyor - something with good career prospects.