By growing up at a center for people with special needs, I learned to always fight hard to achieve what I want. In this regard, I was incredibly lucky.

As a child, I was lucky to have the support of my parents because starting a tennis career is a very expensive adventure.

I was a little bit lost in my head after winning a Grand Slam. You're like: 'So what's the next goal? What do you want now? Where do you want to be? It's not a problem if you lose.'

Stress is part of your career. You have to accept it and deal with it because there is a lot of emotion in tennis.

The beauty of football is that it's about 11, and another five, at least, are sitting outside. You cannot get competitive.

In baseball, democracy shines its clearest. The only race that matters is the race to the bag. The creed is the rule book. And color, merely something to distinguish one team's uniform from another's.

Football is violence and cold weather and sex and college rye.

Carl Pendleton's the absolute best. He's everything you want in a student-athlete.