Andy Roddick

You don't have stories in tennis where it's like, it's a random reference, but I remember a guy who got drafted number one in the NBA, Michael Oluwakandi, like he started playing basketball

Freshman year of college.

In tennis.

You guys are more like symphony musicians.

It's like this weird thing and you have to get used to this kind of lifestyle training thing before you are old enough to realize it's weird.

I was pretty aware.

I went to normal schools.

It was this weird divide between no one at my school knew that I could do this thing.

And so you're dealing with every little issue that...

every kid has, whether it's not fitting in or this, that, and the other.

A girl doesn't like you.

Yeah.

Someone's little brother trying to kick the shit out of you.

He just found out he's strong.

Yeah.

And then all of a sudden two o'clock hits and you go to practice and all of a sudden you're elite at something.

And you're valued.

And so you have like this shift midday every day where it's like you put on your cape and then all of a sudden you're good at something.

No, definitely didn't realize it in the moment.

You're shy when you're at school, unless you're playing a sport or something, and then you kind of get a little cocky, to your point.