"Everyone wants to start the year off well."
"A lot of times when I'm confident and relaxed on the court, I'm going to be a pretty tough out. But when I'm not so confident and not so relaxed, I tense up and my balls fall short and everything. It just sort of unravels."
"You can't not love it here in Paris. It's amazing."
"It is very hard to stay up there in the Top 20."
"The good wins are still great, and you are on cloud nine when that happens, but the losses sting."
"My marriage and my career are my two top priorities."
"Any time you get to come to New York and be near New York City, that is a very cool opportunity."
"I've always stayed hungry."
"Tennis is a funny sport."
"It's very important to be rested."
"You cannot just play tournament after tournament like maybe I did when I was 23, 24 years old."
"Davis Cup is a completely different animal."
"In any match, making a lot of first serves is very important, especially for me."
"I know where I'm ranked, but I don't look at it that much, I don't study it that much. You really can't look at it that way, you've got to try to win as many matches as you can, and it's cliche, but you've got to take it one at a time."
"When you're out on the court, you're fighting against yourself and it can be tough."
"I always have to play very aggressive on the court. It's something that's easier said than done."
"There's a lot of times I'll just play too passive and since I'm not going to play defense as well as most guys can, I can't get away with passive play."
"I grew up in a nice neighborhood in Greensboro, N.C., which is not too big, but definitely not a small town."
"When I fly overseas, I usually fly business class. If not, my knees are going to be at my chin."
"I always ask for the exit row when flying. Airlines are pretty accommodating and most of the time I'll get it."
"I try not to eat too much, but I always get hungry before a match. I make sure I have enough fuel in my body. I'll eat pasta and a little bit of protein usually. I'm pretty much eating a full meal."
"I felt a ton of pressure in '08. A lot of great things were expected of me right out of the gate, and I brought some of that on myself with those great early results. But I wasn't a good enough player to make a run every fourth or fifth tournament. I wasn't as good a player as my ranking indicated."
"Up until I was a junior at Georgia, I felt that when all was said and done, I'd at least have a college degree to fall back on when tennis was finished."
"We never got much in the way of material things, but if you can be spoiled by good cooking, my mom spoiled me three times a day all my life."
"I think college tennis makes you tough."
