"Here's what changed: everything around her changed in the blink of an eye, but the last time I checked, there's still a racket, a ball, a net, and a court, and you're still a competitor. Everything around you changed."
"You went from kind of nothing, to millions of dollars. But when you disappear like that, people just start saying all kinds of stuff and you can kind of let that bother you. If her head's in the right place, and she has the right guidance, I have no doubt she can come back into the top 10."
“I actually talked to her agent, I actually reached out and said “I’d love to help this young lady, okay, I’d like to know what’s in her head.” Okay-obviously, I'm not a travel coach. I-I'd rather help build the box, than sit in the box. Okay, that's just kind of what I do, because I run a business, and I do things very, very differently.”
“So, at the end of the day, I could help her big time; mentally, technically, strategically. Listen, you don't qualify for a Grand Slam, win a Grand Slam and never lose a set, okay, if you don't have magic in a bottle, if you're not special mentally. So that means she must have good movement, she must have the mental strength and she has the firepower,- obviously I saw her ground strokes and the way she plays. So, she has the game.”
“You don't lose the ability, you don't lose the talent. You got that Grand Slam in your back pocket, that wasn't a fluke, if anybody thinks that. I know everybody else is getting better, but she'll get better too. But it comes down to how bad do you want it, and are you gonna die to win every single point? Because that hunger has to be there and sometimes that disappears knowing if you have all these other things going on in your life.”
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