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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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 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?

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

In general, people are administered drugs too readily.

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

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

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 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.

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

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