Coach Price is so nice and a great lady. I was really pleased with her. The team was so nice. I felt like I have a lot of potential left, and I would be able to pull it out by playing there.

She was really understanding and so nice. I really appreciated the way she responded to that.

I committed, and at the time I was so excited. But Alabama is a big school. There's a lot more things I'd like to be involved in. If you go to a big school like that, tennis would pretty much be all you can concentrate on.

I won't cook in deep fat. Years ago, I met a fireman who said most kitchen fires were caused by deep fat, and I don't think that's changed. Oven chips are good enough for my grandchildren, and they're chuffed with that.

If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to an idea that had been set deep in me by all my schooling so far: I was a bright boy and I ought to make something out of myself... something else that would be a cut or two above my humble origins.

He's very precocious, very gregarious. Yesterday he was doing back flips.