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

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.

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.

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

The program for this evening is not new. You’ve seen this entertainment through and through.

I’m just doing what I wanted to and what feels right and not settling for bullshit and it worked. How can they be mad at that?

You feel your strength in the experience of pain.

You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It’s all in how you carry it.

I wouldn’t like me, if I had to be around me.

There are subtle ways to punish a person for daring to feel. You see that everyone around you has destroyed his true feeling nature. You imitate what you see.

Music inflames temperament.

I want to feel what it’s like. I want to taste it, hear it, smell it. Death is only going to happen to you once; I don’t want to miss it