My parents paid me small amounts for cleaning my room or cleaning the dishes and stuff, but I never really had a real job before I started on my professional tennis career.

It's very expensive to be a professional tennis player with all the travel and the flights and the hotels and everything.

There are periods when you feel really good. You feel the ball is bigger. The court is larger. You feel like you can't miss. And then there are periods when you feel, 'OK, I'm not feeling great.' But I still need to try to find a way to win.

If you think negatively, it's hard to get out of tense moments.

Football and chess can seem like sporting polar opposites, but there are so many similarities with the modern game.

I was always raised as a student first and an athlete second. I think that's the main purpose in college. Some athletes lose that perspective.

What I've been telling everyone that loves Carolina football is that we are going to put a team out there that, number one, is in good shape. We're going to be fit, we are going to be able to play the whole game and we're not going to poop out.

I have a prominent platform and I want to use it to promote respect for human rights, democracy, and personal freedom. For me, this is bigger than basketball.