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Everyone has got demons and stuff they’re dealing with.
I practice kickboxing and Muay Thai right now, like, come on, I’ll take anyone on in the ring. You can punch me in the face all you want, and I’ll hit you back.
I realized that if I could shed some extra weight, it would make a huge difference for my knee.
I realize there are a lot of people putting in a lot of time and effort for me, and I want to do well for them, too.
I always wanted to be a professional athlete and really did not necessarily care which sport.
My diet wasn’t terrible but it wasn’t great either.
You can’t replace Davis Cup with something else. Its love and lore won’t be surpassed any time soon.
I do want to play again. I’m just not sure if I’ll be able to.
Some days are better than others, some weeks are better than others.
You can be pretty selfish as tennis players, being an individual sport.
I want very badly to have a success story at the end of it, at the end of my career and say, regardless of how many matches I can win this summer, I want to go to the U.S. Open – for that be my final event – and say I went out on my own terms, instead of it being taken away from me in Winston-Salem in 2013.
I don’t want to play on the grandstand. I want to play on the stadium.
I was 21 when I made the the finals of Cincinnati and finished 20 in the world, and thought it was going to come pretty easy.
Everyone is in their own bubble with stresses, pressures, and expectations on themselves – no matter what job title they have. Mine just happened to involve playing in front of a lot of people, but my issues would be no different from any other person’s.
I’d love to go back to the U.S. Open, where it sort of all came crashing down for me in 2012, and sort of conquer that place. And by conquer, I mean just get back out on the court there. I have a lot of demons from that place.
There were times I felt I’d never get my life back. Am I ever going to be normal and go out with my friends and have a beer and not think I am going to wake up at 3 A. M. and have anxious thoughts about what normal people are doing?
It was just crazy anxiety, crazy, crazy, just how am I going to walk out on this court?
I put my head on my pillow now, knowing that in the later stages in my career, from 2010 on, I did everything I possibly could do to be as good as I could possibly be, I know it sounds really cheesy but it was actually true.
In those years between 2010 and 2012, I was so consistent, not only on all surfaces, but just in terms of entering a tournament and winning matches.
I learned that I had the willpower and ability to reshape my body and my lifestyle.
I do enjoy the experience of a 10 or 12-day competition.
Anytime you can beat a player that’s going to go down as one of the best of all time, that’s a good win.
You can’t play this game without being fit, and without being mentally fit and ready.
It’s just really humbling to know that your story can help people.
It’s hard to play somebody who is wounded.
I’m very comfortable knowing how hard I have worked in the later stages of my career.
The more and more I spoke about it, the more I found out how many people deal with it, the more I read about it and researched it, the more you start to realize how many Americans deal with some sort of mental illness on a daily basis. That gave me comfort.
It’s just health. They call it mental health, but your brain is part of your body. It’s an injury. You just can’t see it.
I’d certainly like to feel I’m a better player than three titles, but it is what it is.
I don’t feel like in my head I have anything to prove.
I’m pretty good at golf and I enjoy trying to get better and learning without the stress on your body, without having to be in incredible physical shape.
Showing weakness and showing fear and letting people in was a huge part of my comeback.
I would not complain very much if I didn’t feel well. I’d fake it on the court, not show that side of it.
It’s just been kind of hard trying to figure out what I can and can’t play. Everyone is so competitive and you watch your friends doing well and you feel helpless at times.
That’s one of the things that I need to do on the court, is to be pretty even-keeled, and positive.
It took me months and months to get back to normalcy – to have a glass of wine at dinner, to go out to a movie with my wife. Just those normal things that you take for granted I wasn’t able to do for a long time.
Physically, I definitely needed to change some things, get fit and get in position where I could be consistent without injury, and I’ve put in a lot of work to stay fit.
I have some great memories from the Olympics I also have some tough memories from it as well, where I was so close to winning a gold medal.
I don’t want people to think I missed the French Open because I didn’t want to go because I was just tired.
There are certain circumstances where I feel a little unlucky or why did this happen to me but I’m sort of transitioning from that and finding ways that I can learn from it and help with it.
I was at the bottom, man. I was in a deep, deep place. It wasn’t like I needed a little bit of medication and a couple of therapy sessions, and then we’re back.
I regret not being able to mature quicker.
I had my job, which I loved to do, which I was really good at. I was at the top of my career, and I had it all taken away because of a mental illness.
We’re trained from a very young age not to show weakness. And I was very good at that throughout my career.
If I never had any mental health issues, there’s no doubt in my mind I’d still be playing.
I feel very blessed to play a sport for a living.
Mental health doesn’t care what your name is or what you do for a living.
The sport, my job, was taken from me so abruptly that it took me a long time to get my life back.
I always felt gratified as a player when Jim Courier was captain, and I knew he had been in any possible scenario I might face on the court. It’s amazing to sit with someone like him, and to draw confidence from what he says, or even just nothing.
I’ve got a big serve, a hard serve, and quicker points as opposed to longer points.
I played as many golf tournaments as I could. I killed time by playing and practicing. It’s something I love to do; it’s fun and I was good at it.
Yes, it was fun playing the quarterfinals of Wimbledon. But I just wasn’t satisfied. To have that one big win in a big tournament on that big stage – I don’t have that.
It shouldn’t matter, but I want to play the big matches on the big courts.
I’ve been to all these places all over the world: Portugal, Vietnam, you name it.
Mental health is not a very easy thing to talk about in sports. It’s not perceived as very masculine.
I just feel like a completely different person confidence-wise, just being able to walk around feeling like an actual athlete that’s in pretty good shape.
To show weakness, we’re told in sports, is to deserve shame. But showing weakness, addressing your mental health, is strength.
There is no tournament to win for mental health. There are no quarterfinals, or semifinals, or finals.
I’ve got an incredible family, I’ve been blessed to play a game for a living, and even more than that, I’ve been blessed to have the ability to play it and the ability to play two sports at the same time. There’s not many people that are able to do that, so yeah, I feel very lucky.
Sports end in a result. And life keeps going. Mine, I hope, is just getting started.
I’ve retired 15 times in my head, I mean literally.
I used to be very hard on myself at times – a lot of times, really.
I had a really great career. I have won over 300 matches, won a bunch of tournaments, almost won a bunch of big tournaments, beaten a lot of good players and done more things than I ever could have imagined.
I love playing competitive golf because it’s really the only thing left that I’m still pretty good at.
I’ve worked very hard to put myself where I am: in the top 10, the top American in an American event – two American events – and I haven’t played on stadium court.
You sort of look yourself in the mirror and ask yourself if want to do things if you want to do some cool things and achieve things you’ve never achieved before.