I think my serve and trying to come forward a little more are what I need to work on.

You start to take those opportunities when you do get a wildcard, but also you're allowed to say no - just because you get a wildcard doesn't mean you have to say yes. Some weeks I think its OK to take a wildcard, some weeks its not.

All these pros are getting better every day. You just want to catch up to them.

Some days, obviously, I am like 'Today is not the day,' but you got to push through, especially when my aspirations are to be pro, you can't have any bad days.

USTA helps me out a lot, the Tennis Center. I can't thank them enough.

Being the number one seed, you're thinking you don't want to lose in the second round.

Playing in a main draw Grand Slam is something you dream about as a kid.

It's hard to win Grand Slams.

There are a bunch of young players coming up and doing incredible stuff.

Hopefully my era can help build the game.

I don't want to be playing on Court 17 for the rest of my life.

I think Kevin Durant being that humble is huge.

Since I was like eight, I always wanted to be playing pro tennis.

While turning pro had a lot of upside, for me, it could also have turned out to be a disaster.

When I told people that I wanted to grow up to be a tennis player, they laughed at me. My dad has always been supportive, but he was laughing, too.

My mom actively did not want me to play professionally.

I was born into a poor family but my family's good. I'm good and I'm going to do something great.

Serena's arguably the best athlete of all time, so getting to know her was surreal.

It was not until I got sponsored at 12 that I finally owned a racket.

The thing is, everybody wants to be famous. Everybody wants to be successful. Everybody wants to be that dude, but not everybody wants to do the work for it. And I think that's probably one of the reasons why there's so many juniors and only a couple that make it. Because I really wanted it. I wanted it real bad.

I want young kids to play tennis because of me.

I want to really change people's lives with what I do for a living.

People in tennis, they've been in a certain bubble for so long they don't even know who they are, because obviously it's just been tennis, tennis, tennis. And let it be just tennis, tennis, tennis. Be locked into that. But when tennis is done, then what? It's kinda like: Let's enjoy being great at the sport.

My mom, she wanted me to go to college and then after that you could do what you want.

There was always a purpose in what I did on the court because at the end of the day, my parents, they sacrificed for me and my brother. I had to do it for them.

I'm a pretty good problem solver.

I want to win titles like Delray and even bigger.

Love the people that want to support you, love the people who are there for you, because you definitely earned that right.

I don't think our priority should be on immigrants. Obviously, they come to the States for a better life, so the last thing they want to do is rob a bank or do something bad.

You can't forget your roots.

I try to treat everyone with love and respect. If you do that, you get the same back, if not more.

My academy did a great job of getting my story out there for people to hear about me, get interested and wanted to fund me.

I just want to be great.

I've played so many matches in my career so far where I played unbelievable, came up just short.

It's Roger Federer - this guy has about a million Grand Slams and done everything.

I have fun when it's the right time to have fun, but when I lock in for practice and matches, I'm not worried about fun.

I have always done exercise because I was a dancer, and it is probably good for you. I have done yoga consistently.

I'm trying to learn to smoke, which is rather weird when everyone is trying to stop. I'm not a smoker. But my character only smokes as an affectation.

The minute anyone's getting anxious I say, You must eat and you must sleep. They're the two vital elements for a healthy life.

Eat well and sleep well. That will feed your nervous system and your psyche. As you get older, you look how you feel.

I think people should do whatever they want to do. That's the point. Why should you care what other people think or say? You're not living in their pocket.

From one till seven, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese. But I can't speak a word of it now.

I used to suffer from excessive pride. Well, I got over that one.

My mother was madly adventurous. My father was an actor - he worked with Gielgud - and my mother came from a very wealthy family. She definitely wasn't meant to marry an actor, but she eloped with him one lunch-time.

Having children with someone is the real bond.

I don't believe in expending energy on something you can't do anything about. If there was some easy way of fixing things, I'd probably do it.

You can love more than one person in your life, but things will be different. There'll be a different dynamic. Needs and desires change.

Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.

I go on giving interviews because I've been brought up to support the projects I'm involved in. When you've enjoyed working on a production, you want to do them a favour.

Sometimes sushi is just superb, and other times there's nothing like a great big steak. It depends where your taste buds are at the time.