As I got older and started moving up the ranking, the matches got more important, and my emotions ratcheted up. I guess I hid my real feelings behind the anger.
When your back is against the wall, your brain has to function at a high level.
The fifth set is not about tennis, it's about nerves.
I think there is no better way for our players to improve and learn to perform under pressure than playing regularly with India.
I seem to get the best out of myself when the pressure's on. My senses are heightened. I feel sharper. I do better things.
I've beaten a lot of great fighters, but people say the big ones, I've lost them all. I don't want to go down as a guy who loses his big fights.
I work best after the deadline has passed, when I'm in a panic.
I'm really excited about Jordan Spieth. Like a great in any sport, when the moment is the biggest, he performs his best.
You live for those pressure moments. Through an international career, you have ups and downs, but you always feel you are going to be tested in moments like that. It has taken me years to feel comfortable and to feel like I have good composure in those situations.
When things are tough, French athletes tend to pull out great performances.
I didn't do anything spectacular when I won the Open in 2001. I hit the ball good, not great. I putted good, not great, but I think I missed maybe two putts inside eight feet all week.
When I'm sitting in bed watching 'Chopped' - that Brie I know. But I don't know the Brie in sky-high heels on a carpet with a bunch of people screaming at me. I wonder what she's like.
I'm used to being under pressure... luckily I perform well under pressure.
The hardest thing in golf is trying to two-putt when you have to, because your brain isn't wired that way. You're accustomed to trying to make putts, and when you change that mind-set, your brain short-circuits, especially under pressure.
To be a Barca goalkeeper, it's not enough to have quality. You have to make decisions and execute them.
Playing at Kentucky, before 24,000 people, you have to learn how to grow real fast and play under pressure and playing on ESPN with millions of people watching. Right away, you learn how to play under control.
The first time I played the Masters, I was so nervous I drank a bottle of rum before I teed off. I shot the happiest 83 of my life.
When Phil Taylor is in the field - no matter whether it's tiddlywinks or the world championship at Alexandra Palace - he is the man to beat.
I loved to hit with men on base and with the game on the line.
New York, playing in the Garden, I've always been a player who likes to play with a lot of people watching.
Every step of the way I think you learn something that makes you a better player, and all those lessons really come out when it matters the most in a championship.
For me, I do better in Grand Slams. I like when there's more people watching.
Sometimes when you get frustrated, your back is against the wall, and you come out fighting and knock out three songs in as many days.
It is the best feeling in the world to have a close game come down to just a couple of plays and you are able to do it.
Bill Russell is one of the great names in basketball, an all-American... and the only athlete to ever win an NCAA Championship, an Olympic Gold Medal, and a professional championship all in the same year-1956...But Bill Russell had this one problem: He threw up before every game.
