“I used to do a lot of video analysis early on, but more for pleasure and looking at my own technique.”

My dad said if you become a tennis professional just make sure you get into the top hundred, because you have to make a little bit of money. You make a living so you can pay your coaching and, you know, your travels.

I’m at the top of my game so, when I win or lose, I don’t freak out…I don’t think we can call it a rivalry yet. There’s just to many great players around.

I’ve always been aware that the image you patiently construct for an entire career can be ruined in a minute. It scares you a bit, but that’s the way things are.

It’s just unreal, I’m shocked myself. I’ve played good matches here, but never really almost destroyed somebody.

No, I’m not (disappointed). There’s no reason to be because I’m on an incredible run. You always expect a loss once in a while. So when it happens, why be disappointed if I win over 90% of my matches.

Being down match point, it’s just not fun.

When I won in 2003, never in my wildest dreams did I ever think I would win Wimbledon and have my kids seeing me lift the trophy, so this is pretty surreal. And yeah, I was almost shocked in the moment that it all came together so nicely.

You’ve never seen me dance, have you?

I’ve done so many interviews over the years in so many different languages. Radios. Papers. Magazines. There’s always another interview to do. It’s quite something, I have to say.

When you do something best in life, you don’t really want to give that up – and for me it’s tennis.

Sometimes you have to accept that a guy played better on the day than you.

I can’t stay No. 1 for fifty years, you know. We’ll see what happens.

There is no way around the hard work. Embrace it.

I don’t mind fans coming up in a friendly, respectful way. That’s all part of the fun of being a top tennis player. But if people take pictures without permission, particularly if my children are in the shot, I feel uncomfortable.

Seriously. I’m not playing to prove anything to journalists. I’m playing for myself, for my fans,to make people happy.

I fear no one, but respect everyone.

Both to the rich and poor, wine is the happy antidote for sorrow.

If you like her, if she makes you happy, and if you feel like you know her – then don’t let her go

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved – loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Doing what you love is freedom. Loving what you do is happiness.

My decision to end my marriage was such a risk to lose ratings and lose my fan base. I had to take that risk for my inner peace and to be happy with myself.

If a man speak or act with a good thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him.

A healthy country is a happy country.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.