All done now. All operated on. All good. Way to go.
Anything over 30 in this game is considered extra time. And this year I'll be 32. I thought I'd be retired by now. Out of the bubble.
As a sportsman, I've been through the mill more than most. You can't compare it to cancer or a death in the family, but it's not always easy to stay with it.
Everyone's frightened. No amount of testing or any lab is going to give you a guarantee that the stuff you take is clean. I just hope no one else has to go through what I had to.
Federer is a great volleyer, but you don't see him ever go to the net.
Grass, it's different because you've got the grains that you've grown and the courts that are made up. To make such a reversal change probably takes a few years.
I am sticking to bottled water, not even a Gatorade or anything, because nobody can give you an answer that something is 100% clean.
I couldn't believe it. I had just done a press call and I heard the worst thing I could hear as an athlete.
I didn't go after it enough. I went for the block return rather than coming over it. It was trying to find that aggression.
I feel more comfortable with myself now.
I felt like I was striking the ball well even though I lost the first set.
I had no choice but to go public with it. It was already out there, people were talking and I knew I had nothing to hide.
I like to set high goals. If I accomplish them, great. If not, it's better to be higher than lower. You need something to fight for and to strive for.
I think a great example for tennis is the Russian women. They know they have to win tennis matches. There's nothing coming easy to them. That's a desire and hunger.
I think I made a few too many unforced errors on some big points. You really have to pick your balls.
I think mentally I'm stronger now than I've been ever been.
I think the solution is either have a slow court, quick ball, or slow ball, quick court. There needs to be a little bit of mix.
I think the way the Australians play a quick court in Melbourne would have been a nice thing.
I thought that once the public found out the truth, then it would come round to support me.
I want to enjoy my last few years of tennis. Every match you win, you feel really good about it.
I was forced out for seven months and dropped to my lowest ranking in 10 years because of something I didn't do. It would not be human not to feel let down and angry inside.
I was named after my great-grandfather, Gregory, who didn't want to move. So that's the irony of my coming back to Britain!
I was very lucky to have the support of Lucy and my family to get through this, and they gave me the strength to fight it. I decided right from the start that I was going to fight it all the way because I was certain I hadn't done anything wrong.
I would love to play on Centre Court. I just want to get back to normality and what it feels like to be reaching the second, third and fourth round of tournaments.
I'm glad I played in the '90s, let's put it like that. It was a different style of tennis back then.
I'm going to enjoy it and give everything I can to this game.
I'm going to need the support from the public. I'm going to need all the help I can get.
I'm involved with the task force now. The more I sit on the task force and see it, the angrier I get at the injustice of what I went through.
I'm not saying he'll get his, but I believe in karma.
I'm prepared to be talking about this for a while,but I hope people will soon be asking me about my game instead. Let's hope they are doing it in the second week of Wimbledon.
I've always been an attacking sort of player. I can mix it up and stay back, but I'm not going to win against the top guys playing their game.
I've got a lot to think about after the Australian Open. So I'm just going to sit down, try to sort out all those things.
I've got a pretty photographic memory. You kind of live every match.
I've had my best years in tennis behind me, It might be ideal for our youngsters coming up.
I've just got to stay positive and aggressive with these courts.
I've never really taken shortcuts in my career, and I've always tried to get the best people and tried to do the best things I possibly can.
If I didn't make it by the time I was 21, I was going to get a different job. You have to figure out what you want from the sport.
If you can just go out there and enjoy it like you did when you were young, the magic can still happen. You just have to do it.
In Wimbledon, I played the first time on the Graveyard Court.
It just seems that tennis is slower and slower now. I thought last year was reasonably slow, but this year is extremely slow.
It was horrible to be put through that knowing that I had done absolutely nothing wrong.
It was very difficult to play that week. I confided in my family but no one else. It was also incredibly annoying because it was the first time in ages that I had been fit.
It's a bit of a conundrum. I'm fit, everything's good, the body's healthy, I'm doing it on the practice courts, now I have to take it to the match court. But the older you get, the more doubts creep in.
It's about you. If you win, it's you; if you lose, it's you. Black and white. Nowhere to hide.
It's good for the people who buy the grounds passes to be able to see the players.
It's kind of funny when you haven't played doubles in a while, then you come to play doubles again-it's a hard combination to get.
It's not a break until you hold your serve.
My game is like chip and charge, and now it's having to just rethink it completely and go with the times because you're forced to.
My mother's a very superstitious woman. There's a lot of it about in the tennis world.
People came up to me and told me they believed I was a clean athlete, and I think people pretty quickly realised this is an issue for the federation.
Put your head down, work hard, don't worry about things.
Tennis changes. If you look back in the past, they say it's too slow, then you have eras they say it's too quick. It always balances out.
Thank God that my game I had built for that time was the right period.
The downside isn't really injury, fear of injury or the process of fighting back from injury. The downside, the very worst thing in the world, is surgery.
The first day is horrendous. The headlines are awful; there only is one headline. Once the public started to understand the case, it got better.
The lawyers who took my case had always prosecuted before, never defended, and they told me the case shouldn't have been happening. That the whole thing was absurd.
The only way to get back the confidence is to play and win matches. You can practise as much as you like, but you need confidence that comes from playing and winning matches.
The rest of the world is out there waiting for you to fail. Oh look, he's slipping down the rankings, he's not so hot. That's the reality.
The win at Wimbledon was definitely one of my best matches I've ever played at Wimbledon.
There is still no explanation for it, the ATP still has no idea what caused the contamination or even what the source is.
There's nothing I can be but a victim, and that's no good. The thing is, I don't know why they picked on me.
There's two things you don't want to play over here, a Swede and an Australian. Those are the two toughest to play in Australia.
They can put you up and they can pull you down. That's the world we live in and that's the game we play. Not very sentimental, is it?
This is not about doping, it's about contamination that we can't explain.
Time is running out. I didn't think I'd be here over 30, playing.
To come out of that match and then lose all that time, the seven months of my career that effectively went-that was really tough. That weekend I really gave it my all, and unfortunately I just came up short.
We need a lot of support up there in Scotland.
We used to play on Supreme Courts indoors with very quick balls.
When I put my mind to it and I come over it, that's fine, but I just have to change that mindset to do that, and maybe the clay court season will give me that opportunity to do that.
When you're young, you don't know what you don't know, so it's easier to get into that magical thing.
You can't really describe how difficult it is to deal with. It is any athlete's worst nightmare to be accused of cheating by taking drugs. It really is very difficult to put into words how it makes you feel.
You do it for the highs, when you're totally engrossed and everything's flowing and whatever you want, you get. It's like magic. That's why you play the game. That's what it's for. That's why you work.
You have to get with the times and find a solution, making your racquets lighter or heavier, just trying to find a way to deal also with the strings and the balls and just trying to find the right combination.
You just have to completely change your game and adjust with the times.
You were told in the old days when I played on grass, you take everything out of the air, you don't let it bounce. Now it's a different game. You have to adjust with the times.
You win any which way you can. You do what you have to do to get by. That's the way it works in any job. There's a time to stay and a time to go.
You're either going to get weaker and disappear and fall off the planet, which I could have done when I was 168 in the world, but decided I was going to fight back and got to the Top 50.
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