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"You have to want to play it all day, every day to get to the top."
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"I have this terrible dark side to my personality, which playing tennis keeps at bay."
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"You have to want to play it all day, every day to get to the top."
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"Tennis has to become everything to you if you're going to make it to the top. You have to live it."
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"People think I must have been so talented at an early age, but I don't know - was it talent or hard work? Who knows?"
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"Tennis is so competitive. I guess that's the way it has to be."
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"Did you know that Christmas Day is absolutely the best day to fly? It is. No crowded airports and crowded planes. I always flew to Australia. That's what Christmas was for me - a plane journey to the next tournament."
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"It doesn't matter who is playing or how old they are. I just worry about what I can control. It doesn't give me more or less motivation."
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"I did realise more than ever, after the stabbing, that tennis is a business - a tough business."
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"Madonna has total control over her life, and not many women have that."
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"You will never have great tennis champions from England because of the cold and dark, but most of all because people only care about the sport for two weeks a year, and then they're on to something else. There's just not a great love of the sport there."
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