Tommy is in my opinion one of the best players in the world, he should be up at the top.I’ll have to play a good match.

He’s the only guy I’ve ever played against you hold serve to go 1-0 and you think all right, good. There’s a sense of urgency on every point, on every shot.

Once I got the break, I got into a better rhythm in the second set. He did not serve a high percentage of first serves in and I was returning well.

It’s a great sign,

I thought maybe if I tape it and I support it maybe I could push through, … But the foot went to the outside and down. So on the outside three ligaments were gone and...

It has meant a lot to me to challenge the best players in the world and to beat them. And it means a lot to me to be out here and fighting for the title...

This is an unfortunate setback.

Listen to that. How does that get old? Thanks, guys.

If he’s getting the better of me, I couldn’t wish it for a better person

To be honest, with the way a mentality like mine sort of works, this means as much to me as doing it in the finals,

It’s always awkward playing somebody for the first time. Tonight I just stayed with executing my shots, stayed comfortable.

I think he has better options right now.

I’ve been around long enough to know how short-lived all of this is.

Thank goodness we have Andy [Roddick] on the team,

I mean, what do you do? What do you tell those people that are sitting there, waiting to be rescued and people can’t even get to them?

Same story now for a little while. A couple of good days followed by a series of difficult ones.

It took me a while to enjoy playing here the first few years,

The most animated talks we have are about…things

There’s no matches you get through unless you’re playing sensibly. ‘ You have to,

It’s an incredible serve, … It’s not a function of how fast it is. The trajectory is the main issue. You’re lunging, but then it’s up. You’re sort of diving, but then you can’t reach...

I’m not going to have a lot of winners against a guy like Roger. My goal is to get a lot of errors out of him because of the breezy conditions. I wanted to control...

I plan to return to the court as soon as my ankle is fully recovered.

It’s an incredible serve, … I’m trying to figure out where it is I would need to stand on the court to have the same trajectory. It’s not a function of how fast it is...

I was a bit discouraged there.

I always worry about health — is everything holding up?

There’s no weakness to speak of, … You play a bad match against Pete, you lose 6-4, 7-5. You play a good match against Pete, you lose 6-4, 7-5. You play a good match against...

There’s a lot to like about playing against someone you’ve known and played against a long time,

The first set was pretty scratchy but each set my quality picked up. I just hung on and played a good (tie) breaker.

I had my moments for sure but I wasn’t confrontational. And sometimes you get on the court and you’d find yourself very confrontational. It was all a discovery.

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....

He’s the best I’ve ever played against. Pete was great, but there was a place to go with Pete on your terms – there’s nowhere to go with Roger,

I hope (my fans are) excited. I don’t get to be in too many finals any more.

When (Connors) was 35, 36 when we played, you know, I don’t know if I was old enough to really understand what it meant for him to be doing what he’s doing,

His serve was more awkward than I anticipated. If you don’t get a good return, he immediately gets on the offense. That’s the sign of a great player.

It’s not ideal to have three five-setters going into a final, … but I felt pretty decent out there in the fifth set. I stepped it up when I needed to. It’s not ideal but...

I don’t know if I’ve ever felt this good here,

You think you should take your chance, but then you regret not waiting a couple of more shots. As the match went on, I got real patient and waited for my opportunities and felt pretty...

[NEW YORK – Perspective.] For me, … that’s what it’s all about, perspective.

The ball never came in my range today. I didn’t play badly but it certainly wasn’t good enough. I needed to settle down, but as soon as I tried to get a rally going, he...

It makes me feel great I can play five sets without that pain. That’s certainly a good indication that everything’s holding up,

We can say for sure our sport is the leading, if not the top, sport in drug testing in both its intensity and as far as what they test for. It’s a very extensive list,...

Some moments it feels longer, other moments it feels like it’s flown by; you can’t believe you’ve done it all that time… Overall, you have a strong sense for the full spectrum that you’ve sort...

The court was playing pretty fast, it almost felt like playing tennis with golf balls out there. But I am feeling fine physically. I think need a few more matches before I can start competing...

I kept my head down and kept wanting to make him earn it. In the third and fourth set, I felt I was a bit living on the edge with my serve. But then in...

It’s like a car going uphill with no brakes. You’re either going forward or backwards. I feel like when I’m at home watching it, I’m going backwards.

I can live with losing, I can’t live with not taking my chance. I wasn’t happy about being in a fifth after being up two sets to love, but I did know I was going...

You never know how it’s going to be.

Pretty amazing. I don’t know if I can put in context how this compares with some of my greatest experiences on the tennis court, but I know it’s right up there, because this is what...

I was useless, to be quite honest, as being clear on what was going on out there,

I just have a lot to be thankful for inside those lines, and certainly outside those lines as well, … I’m more motivated now than ever to go out there and figure out a way...