Why don't they go back to wood racquets? Then we would see the best tennis to be played.

I'm sure a lot of players say it, but winning is almost so you don't lose. The thrill of winning is not as great as the pain of losing.

There's always a concern when you play the week before a major. That's not the easiest time for a scheduler or a promoter, I would think.

If you look at the top 100 players, you would see that the great majority of them have had at least a couple of surgeries. That tells me that we have to protect the players.

Kyrgios has got to look in the mirror if he wants to become a top player and win Grand Slams.

I was always taught that you needed to be intense and never lose your focus.

If people do things without thinking them through, that rubs me up the wrong way.

The good part of having six kids is, there's always one who wants to hug you and say, 'Daddy, I love you.'

I thought doubles was a good way for me to practice and get some reps in - I didn't like to train in the gym as much as players these days.

One of the things I respected about Connors was that one second he would be spewing a four-letter word, the next second he would do something that had people falling off the aisles. Yet he never seemed to lose his concentration.

I happened to be one of those guys who doesn't play much golf.

The mistake, if I made one, in the late 1980s, was thinking I needed to change my game.

In general, people are administered drugs too readily.

If you're out there and things are going badly, are you going to cry or break down?

I believe there's only one autobiography you can do.

I went on safari in South Africa just after apartheid had ended.

I would put tiebreakers in the fifth set, no question about it.

Roland Garros is the only one of the four majors that is 15 days, and that is too long.

If you yell at your box, I'm not really sure it's something where it should be a penalty. It seems like you hurt yourself.

Of course for your main rivals, you're going to get extra motivated for it, particularly if you haven't played him for a long time.

I'm generally happy, although my kids and wife may sometimes argue with that.

I can't speak for other people, but I still hate losing. When I did lose, I found it easier to yell than to cry. Guys aren't supposed to cry, are they?

When you are growing up to even be involved in a Scotland squad is a massive achievement, to go on and play for your country is an amazing thing, something I will never take for granted.

I'm ambitious, which is why I chose Villa.

Hibs are such a brilliant club, amazing training ground, good coaches, and a great platform for Scottish players to get better.

For every Scottish player and whoever qualifies to play for Scotland, it's important to put in the performances and, when a squad is coming up, to stay on your toes and prove you deserve to be there.

It's never nice looking over your shoulder and needing other results but sometimes that happens in football. It's a lot better to know your future is in your own hands.

If you get too high it comes back to bite you on the backside so I was always aware in spells before when I've done well in a season, eventually there was a wee dip.

Hopefully I can challenge myself and establish myself as a Premier League player for Aston Villa.

When a Scottish player goes down the road you're always going to get doubters. You always get people saying you're from a pub league.

Going to places like Tynecastle, where you're so close to the crowd, you get reminded how ugly you are and stuff like that!

All you want to do is first and foremost a job for the team but if you can entertain the people in the stands, and make then enjoy their day, then it helps.

Sometimes a manager will assess the other team through the warm-up and try to get an inkling as to what way they are going to be playing.

People do like to talk us down, it's a Scottish thing. We are pessimistic, we look for the negatives all the time.

We don't want to have to rely on last-minute goals every time!

I think it's really hard to replace what Scott Brown brought to Scotland. He was one of a kind and there aren't too many players like Broony. But for me, the more you try and replicate him, the more difficult it becomes.

You will always have people to prove wrong. I always have done and I always will. I use that to spur me on and stay hungry and that's the big aim.

I know I have been compared with Broony and he is a player I've looked up to massively. When I first went into the Scotland squad he took me under his wing.

If you've not got the doubts to go and prove people wrong, that's when you get into that comfort zone and stop progressing.

In Scotland you can enter a comfort zone. I felt I had already developed a reputation there and felt it was important to prove I can play elsewhere.

Well I'm still a massive Celtic supporter. And I always will be. That will never leave you.

You want to be challenging for titles and in semi-finals and finals. Everyone is excited by that.

You learn more from defeats and it makes you hungry to go and improve the next time. That's the way I have dealt with things during my whole career.

No matter where it is or who it's against, I will always be available for Scotland as long as I am fit.

I've worked under a lot of managers, whether it's the national team or at St Mirren and everyone has their moments. I think it is important, you can't just let things pass if they are not good enough.

There's always going to be that question going up a division. Can you do it? Are you only good against the players in a lower division?

We can take these things for granted, when we have everything on a plate.

I think people maybe had a perception of me that I was just a hard working player, just a runner. Don't get me wrong, I think I am that but I've got a lot more to my game than that.

There's something special about big midweek games at Easter Road, under the lights, that makes us have that little bit extra about us.

Every young kid growing up playing football dreams of playing in those big famous stadiums.