There have been some dark times. But what I've realised is that I love this sport.
I think I'm realising that careers for tennis players are very short. On the women's side now, players are starting to peak later on, but the average age is about 31, 32 when you finish playing, so I want to make the most of it while I'm young, fit, and healthy. I don't want to waste any time.
I'm a football coach. I'm not a doctor ... They don't call plays, I don't do surgeries. We have a great deal here.
The street to obscurity is paved with athletes who can perform great feats before friendly crowds.
You've got to turn over every stone; you've got to look for every advantage. You need to make sure you're doing everything you possibly can, not just on the field but off it, to give your team an advantage - from having a sleep expert coming to talk to your team to having an independent analysis of your team done.
The thing with sledging is it very rarely goes well. Usually, if I was sledging, I was struggling.
Ninety percent of hockey is mental and the other half is physical.
Golf is a mental disorder.
I want to play football at a high level.
There's definitely a lack of self-belief in many players, which is the only complaint I have about men's tennis.
Australia played some good cricket, but they have forgotten how to win.
You don't want to be a streaky shooter.
In the U.S., my whole life, I felt like I had to be the best and score more goals and run with more fitness so I could be the one in the limelight. I think that when I went to Sweden, I found the joy of being part of a team and contributing to everybody's success.
What personality does it take to drive a car around a track 100 times or hit a ball back and forth. That's not very personality is it?
Slump? I ain't in no slump... I just ain't hitting.
The only difference between a winning team and a losing team is one game. The winning team can win two out of three games...the losing team can only win one out of three.
I was always hugely into sport before I started boxing. I played rugby, football, cricket, athletics, swimming.
Coaches who have been players in the league, they get so attuned to playing how they were successful and who their coaches were.
I was a different kind of player as a kid and didn't do too much shouting and screaming. If things didn't go my way, I tended to get a bit overwhelmed. All I wanted to do was cry on my mom's shoulder. I didn't know how to handle defeat in front of a crowd, and I didn't want to be the loser.
No matter how much you've won, no matter how many games, no matter how many championships, no matter how many Super Bowls, you're not winning now, so you stink.
I've seen young guys break down in those situations. They're cruising along, playing great, then their minutes get funky and they fall apart. Some of them never recover.
People study and play sports side by side. So, most of the talent exists in schools and universities.
We, as sportsmen, we're not used to just sitting at home and being at home all day. We want to go out. We want to play sport. We want to be in the gym, want to train; we want to hit balls, and when you're not physically able to do that, it's really tough. It starts playing on the mind a lot more.
In the NHL, 95 percent of success is confidence.
I knew I wanted to coach at an early age.
