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    We have not lost the tie yet. We can still win the doubles tomorrow. Then we'll see.

    I had a coach that was not a great player, but he taught with kids and juniors so that by the time he was 50 he was great. He helped me make the top 5 in the world and yet he wasn't a great player himself.

    When you get to 15 or 16 and you are the best in your area or your country, you need to play twice a day for five or six days a week.

    I think the spirit and the values I try to defend are one of the successes of our team. You don't just play for yourself, you play for your country and you play for your friends. You give instead of taking.

    Of course that will be on our minds but when you start a match thinking that you're going to take revenge, your concentration suffers and you're likely to miss your goal.


    I don't know if there is another nation that is as strong as Russia is at the moment,

    I retired because I had a knee injury, my cartilage was wearing out, it was painful and I couldn't put in the four hours of practice each day that I needed to.

    More than specific memories of achievements, for me I remember the feeling you get when you were just at your very best - when you felt like you were floating across the court and could put the ball wherever you wanted.

    When you are very little tennis should be fun, it should be a game.

    If you win, fine, if you don't, you try again next year.

    You should just enjoy it, but as soon as you decide that it is going to be your career, no matter whether you want to be a doctor or an architect or anything else, you need to work 5 hours a day.

    When I tell a player that I want him on the Saturday and he replies he will only arrive on the Sunday, we cannot understand each other.

    The two matches turned on nothing. The biggest regret is for Arnaud Clement. He's very frustrated. He has the impression to have failed in his mission because his adversary seemed weakened physically.

    Sebastien is not at 100 percent. We thought for a while he was definitely out of the team, but as he has made progress since Wednesday, I count on him for Sunday -- if possible.

    You can be a little lonely because it's an individual sport.

    It's better to have done because then you know what the player is going through and you understand the pressure, but then on the other hand I know a lot of people that were good players but not good coaches, and vice versa.

    I think our strength is this strong relationship we have all together.

    Anything is possible as long as you have the passion.

    If you lived the doubles, as I did, which was very stressful, you are sitting down in a chair experiencing a match without being able to hold a racquet in your hands.

    But whatever happens, when you leave London you feel like a winner because it's a great venue and it's so nice to be there with all the guys.

    When you are a professional sportsman all the guys are great competitors in the top 50.

    I think each player and myself live things differently because I have no physical effort to make.

    To be a professional tennis player you need to put in these sort of hours.

    It's a tough world out there and all the guys are fighting hard and the competition is really tough.

    As an example, for every 1,000 kids we help in France between the ages of 12 and 14, the UK probably helps 50. So, we have so many more players.

    Suddenly in the end when it's over, you feel a big weight on your shoulders. That's the role of the captain. Unfortunately, it's sometimes like that in sport.

    I pick the best possible players but others are better than us. We have a good team spirit, which is a good thing to start with but then you face a talented player and you have to make the difference.

    There are some guys you have problems beating because of their style - I always had difficulties with guys like Michael Chang and Andre Agassi because their returns were so good and they played so well in defence.

    I feel sad for Fabrice because I feel he regrets that he missed out on something. But on the other hand he is not a kid anymore -- he could have thought about it. There is no need to come and cry now.

    But I still serve pretty big and that's one of my biggest weapons, so if my shoulder holds up and I can count on it, I can win a few matches and then you never know how the other guys are going to react to the fatigue and the length of the matches.

    When we want to reach a dream for the second time, you want it to come true, when you try so hard, you are so close to achieving it, it makes things very difficult to live with afterwards.

    I felt like I couldn't work as I wanted to, my level of play was going down more because I wasn't training enough than because I was getting older.

    The bathroom break isn't that big a deal, but I have seen guys taking injury time-outs for shoulder injuries, ankles, everything, and it's too much.

    Sebastien is not 100 percent. At one point we thought we would have to take him off the team but as he has been constantly progressing since yesterday (Wednesday), I am counting on him for Sunday, if it's possible.


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