Quotes from Mardy Fish

I've retired 15 times in my head, I mean literally.

If I had three pancakes in the morning I'd be like, Oh, I feel a little full, did I eat too much? Maybe I ate too much, I don't feel perfect, what's going on?' It just snowballs.

Anytime you can beat a player that's going to go down as one of the best of all time, that's a good win.

Mental health is not a very easy thing to talk about in sports. It's not perceived as very masculine.

I want very badly to have a success story at the end of it, at the end of my career and say, regardless of how many matches I can win this summer, I want to go to the U.S. Open - for that be my final event - and say I went out on my own terms, instead of it being taken away from me in Winston-Salem in 2013.

I really wanted people to understand beating the stigma of, Hey suck it up,' is really important, because it's not as easy as that.

All of a sudden, it wasn't quite good enough to make the fourth round of a Grand Slam, when my whole life before that it was an incredible achievement and something that I had only done a couple of times.

I'm superstitious as far as stuff around the courts. I'll eat the same things and drink the same things, and have the same breakfast in the morning.

If I never had any mental health issues, there's no doubt in my mind I'd still be playing.

There are certain circumstances where I feel a little unlucky or why did this happen to me but I'm sort of transitioning from that and finding ways that I can learn from it and help with it.

I had trained myself to show no weakness.

To show weakness, we're told in sports, is to deserve shame. But showing weakness, addressing your mental health, is strength.

Showing weakness and showing fear and letting people in was a huge part of my comeback.

It shouldn't matter, but I want to play the big matches on the big courts.

It was just crazy anxiety, crazy, crazy, just how am I going to walk out on this court?

I worked extremely hard to put myself in the best position to not have to worry about things when I was out there. Because if I was out of shape, or if I didn't feel well, or if it was going to be a long match or a hot match, or something like that, a lot more things creep into your head.

I love playing competitive golf because it's really the only thing left that I'm still pretty good at.

Davis Cup means almost everything to me.

Everyone has got demons and stuff they're dealing with.

I'd love to go back to the U.S. Open, where it sort of all came crashing down for me in 2012, and sort of conquer that place. And by conquer, I mean just get back out on the court there. I have a lot of demons from that place.

I'm pretty good at golf and I enjoy trying to get better and learning without the stress on your body, without having to be in incredible physical shape.

I just feel like a completely different person confidence-wise, just being able to walk around feeling like an actual athlete that's in pretty good shape.

I would not complain very much if I didn't feel well. I'd fake it on the court, not show that side of it.

I always wanted to be a professional athlete and really did not necessarily care which sport.