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When You Deal With Somebody In The Heat Of Battle, You See The Best Or The Worst Of Them. So When You Get Through All That There Is A Great Deal Of Respect.

It's No Accident, I Think, That Tennis Uses The Language Of Life. Advantage, Service, Fault, Break, Love, The Basic Elements Of Tennis Are Those Of Everyday Existence, Because Every Match Is A Life In Miniature. Even The Structure Of Tennis, The Way The Pieces Fit Inside One Another Like Russian Nesting Dolls, Mimics The Structure Of Our Days. Points Become Games Become Sets Become Tournaments, And It's All So Tightly Connected That Any Point Can Become The Turning Point. It Reminds Me Of The Way Seconds Become Minutes Become Hours, And Any Hour Can Be Our Finest. Or Darkest. It's Our Choice.

The Scoreboard Said I Lost Today, But What The Scoreboard Doesn't Say Is What It Is I Have Found. Over The Last 21 Years, I Have Found Loyalty. You Have Pulled For Me On The Court And Also In Life. I Found Inspiration. You Have Willed Me To Succeed, Sometimes Even In My Lowest Moments, And I've Found Generosity. You Have Given Me Your Shoulders To Stand On To Reach For My Dreams, Dreams I Could Never Have Reached Without You.

First Of All, In Any Sport Where You Can Measure Distance, Height Speed And All Of That, You See How Athletes Have Changed Their Sport And Made It Better. I Believe, With Every Generation, The Sport Has Improved. Certainly, In The Men's Game, That Has Been The Case. I Think That I Played Pete [sampras] At His Best, I Played Roger [federer] At His Best.. I Believe Wholeheartedly That Roger And [rafael] Nadal Have Pushed The Game Much Further Than Myself Or Pete Ever Did. Their Options On The Tennis Court Are Considerably More Than Ours.

Tennis Is One Of The Only Sports In America Where The Sport Doesn't Grow With The Size Of The Person - It Just Forces You To Swallow The Whole Pill.