Tennis Player

Even when I played, if they gave me the microphone after a match, whether a doubles final or a singles final, I'd handle the microphone pretty well.

The pace of play is very important whether I'm watching baseball, tennis or golf.

Have a living will if you don't want long-term life support. It makes the decision easier for the family.

When you're in the second set and you start thinking I have to win this and get it over, the pressure to finish quickly can get to you.

I haven't always been as gracious a loser as I could have been.

People all the time try to take my outside interests and make them a negative. My life has always been like that and it always will be like that. I don't think it necessarily means that while I'm concentrating on tennis I can't put 100% into it. If I didn't have 100 different interests, I probably wouldn't be as good a player.

I've learned to really appreciate the courtside position and the art of picking up certain subtleties. Player expression you can't see from a camera angle, or the booth.

Living in Los Angeles and having three little kids, it's hard following the Orioles.

I got to one Grand Slam final, and that's what you shoot for as a player.

Living in Baltimore at age 11, I was still not single-focused on tennis. I still played other sports. It was becoming a bigger part of my life, but it was still mainly my summer hobby.

I've learned to really appreciate the courtside position and the art of picking up certain subtleties. Player expression you can't see from a camera angle, or the booth.

The microphone is open. There is no delay. If I see something and want to say it right now, I can.

In regular tournaments, players throw in the towel occasionally for one reason or another.

I haven't always been as gracious a loser as I could have been.

I think my best tennis is good enough to win.

I hate sitting still.

I feel that I can make certain shots, tough shots, and that I can play better when things aren't going well.

I was given advice early in the quarantine: Don't focus on what you don't have. Focus on what you do have and will have again, and I've said that to myself over and over again.

I didn't mean to offend anybody. It's my filter. I constantly work on it.

Living in Los Angeles and having three little kids, it's hard following the Orioles.