“When people are coming to Krakow and we show them how and where we practice, they are like, ‘Seriously?”

I really played a lot this year. Sometimes it’s really hard to stay focused all the time because you’re really tired after the whole season.

It’s always difficult, especially the U.S. Open, the last of the Grand Slams. It’s always tough because you know, the season is very long.

I’m staying in my hometown and my home country because that is where I feel comfortable. I feel good there.

If somebody knows me, they know for sure I’m from Poland because I’m playing for my country every tournament, every match.

Sometimes you can really serve well and win the match because of the serve. I have the opposite thing now, so it’s kind of hard. I can just really play with my forehand and backhand.

Are you kidding me?’ But we’re always saying that what matters about the courts – the lines, the nets – are the same. I’m practicing in Poland even when I don’t have good facilities.

I am a businessman. This is what I do each and every day. I love it. I love coming to work. I never have a bad day.

What is the world coming to?

One mustn’t close one’s eyes to difficulty and to shortcomings; the more one recognizes them, the less they upset one.

Spending a weekend with Hitler would have been boring in the extreme, although you would have had a greater certainty in coming back alive.

How do the stems connect to the roots?’ ‘Where is the mist coming from?’ ‘Why does one tree seem darker than another?’ These questions are implicitly asked and answered in the process of sketching.

There’s more coming tomorrow than there was today. Quite a few people coming from Ottawa to watch.

I like the guitar-driven music of Nirvana at its peak. At that point, I thought there was a lot of really exciting music coming out.

When the Constitution was written, the founders had no way of anticipating the new technologies that would evolve in the coming centuries.