Mardy Fish

“I do want to play again. I'm just not sure if I'll be able to.”

“I'm open to talking about what I've been through with my anxiety disorder and my mental health struggles to try and help other people.”

“I do enjoy the experience of a 10 or 12-day competition.”

“I've got an incredible family, I've been blessed to play a game for a living, and even more than that, I've been blessed to have the ability to play it and the ability to play two sports at the same time. There's not many people that are able to do that, so yeah, I feel very lucky.”

“Davis Cup means almost everything to me.”

“You sort of look yourself in the mirror and ask yourself if want to do things if you want to do some cool things and achieve things you've never achieved before.”

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

“I'm very comfortable knowing how hard I have worked in the later stages of my career.”

“I had a really great career. I have won over 300 matches, won a bunch of tournaments, almost won a bunch of big tournaments, beaten a lot of good players and done more things than I ever could have imagined.”

“I don't want to play on the grandstand. I want to play on the stadium.”

“I realized that if I could shed some extra weight, it would make a huge difference for my knee.”

“I've been to all these places all over the world: Portugal, Vietnam, you name it.”

“I had my job, which I loved to do, which I was really good at. I was at the top of my career, and I had it all taken away because of a mental illness.”

“It's great to be with family all the time.”

“Mental health doesn't care what your name is or what you do for a living.”

“I've worked very hard to put myself where I am: in the top 10, the top American in an American event - two American events - and I haven't played on stadium court.”

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

“What don't I miss about tennis? Oh man, the road, the airports, the rain delays, the scheduling, the knots in your stomach, not being able to eat. Things like that.”

“I don't feel like in my head I have anything to prove.”

“We tracked every single thing that I ate and calculated everything on a computer program called NutriTiming. It wasn't always easy and certainly wasn't always fun.”