"I always tried to hide the fact that I was an athlete. I just wanted to be normal."

"I was never a prodigy."

"While I was always successful... I never thought I'd be one in the world."

"I couldn't imagine being from a country where all the pressure is on a particular player."

"I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days."

"I mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coolest dad. He did everything for his kids, and he never made us feel like he was pressured. I know that it must be a great feeling to be a guy like that."

"Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family."

"My father was a very unhappy person, very sarcastic, and my mother was very nervous and worried about what people thought. They weren't monsters, but it wasn't a good childhood."