Q. Goran, this was almost a match you had to win because of the poor
                  results you've had in Grand Slams, the last four or five Grand Slams. Do
                  you think this was a match you absolutely had to win in order to maintain
                  any semblance of confidence?
                  A. Oh, yes, I felt very nervous before the match and yesterday when they
                  cancelled me, actually I felt a little happy, one more day, you know. I mean,
                  you know how I feel from five Grand Slams, win one round and then
                  Wimbledon comes, and a lot of people expect me to do well, and I didn't
                  play well lately on the Grand Slams, and it's nice to win a round, but it
                  doesn't please me, you know, one round.

                  Q. In all honesty, if you were on the seeding committee here, would you
                  have seeded Goran Ivanisevic?
                  A. That's a tough question. Yes and no, you know. The way I played lately,
                  no. But the way I play recent years here, yes.

                  Q. Which is more important?
                  A. More important? The way I play recent years, because I could play
                  anybody, you know. I can play Pete, if I wouldn't be a seed, anybody, and
                  that's a tough match, you know. I can beat anybody when I play good here,
                  and I can lose to some seed when I play bad here. So you never know with
                  me.

                  Q. Do you think one victory might provide you with a springboard for a
                  good tournament here?
                  A. Anything is possible, you know. It's good that I am 14th seed, and with
                  my later results, nobody -- you know, not really, not too many people rate
                  me as any favourite, or anything to do here. So I feel good, you know, the
                  way things are going with my tennis, and anything is possible.

                  Q. Do you prefer not to be rated too highly?
                  A. In this moment, yes.

                  Q. Why is that?
                  A. I just feel like that, you know. I dropped my ranking. I came to the
                  stage, now I need that people start not to believe in me, and then I like
                  when I have to prove to somebody, you know, that I can be good again, in
                  the top five, where I belong.

                  Q. You could go down in tennis history as one of the greatest athletes
                  never to achieve great success in tennis. Would that bother you?
                  A. That will bother me, but it's not -- it's never late for me. I'm still 26, and
                  I believe I can do it.

                  Q. Have you done any soul searching about this slump you've been in for
                  quite some time now?
                  A. I tried to realise what will happen, but first, I think during the last year,
                  when I started to play well, and a couple of important tournaments indoors,
                  and then I couldn't play, two months I couldn't play before because of my
                  shoulder, and then to come back, a lot of people are hungry, a lot of players
                  are coming and they want to win, and I came to that stage where I'm --
                  when I had to push myself more than before, and sometimes I didn't want
                  to do it. So now I get my -- not the confidence, but now I have more fun to
                  play tennis. Before, a couple of months, I was forcing myself to practise, to
                  play a match. I play a match because I was in the draw, not because I
                  want to be on the tournament and play tennis, just because I entered a
                  tournament. I was in the draw, and now nothing else to do, let's play, you
                  know. That's what was going to happen. If you have that attitude, you
                  cannot win anything.

                  Q. Does it make it easier, Goran, being at Wimbledon, knowing how you
                  feel about the tournament, the success you've had here, that you feel a
                  different mental attitude here?
                  A. Now I feel better, even with -- it doesn't matter, Wimbledon or not, with
                  that attitude that I had before, when I come here -- last year I came with
                  that attitude here, and even when I play final of Queen's, when I came
                  here and didn't win a place and lost to Norman, a guy who's first time on
                  the grass. But this year, I mean, I've felt better. I'm feeling much better,
                  much happier, and I have a desire to play and practise, and I feel inside of
                  me that it's coming, and just it's a question of time when I'm going to break
                  through and make a good result.

                  Q. Did you ever kind of doubt yourself, your ability to overcome that, did it
                  enter your mind?
                  A. Sometimes, but not really. I know what I'm capable of to do. I know
                  why people like to watch me, you know, because it's always a thriller, and
                  they watch me and they kind of expect everything, you know, from nothing
                  to great tennis. So I'm already used to that.

                  Q. Do you enjoy your image of the bad boy?
                  A. Bad boy, good boy, you know, I enjoy who I am, you know. I don't think
                  you have any more personalities in the tennis. It's finished, and I enjoy who
                  I am and where I am.

                  Q. Two years ago, I remember you were mentioning you are travelling to
                  some tournaments with a priest person, spiritual guidance, a friend of yours as well. Is that something you're still doing, or are you still doing that?
                  A. Not a few tournaments. He only travelled here because he's my friend.
                  It's not because of the spiritual thing, and I just like to go into the church
                  and believe in God, but he is my friend and he wanted to see Wimbledon.
                  So I gave him a chance to see Wimbledon, and that's it. He didn't stay with
                  me. I saw him only during the matches. Not because I believe that he's
                  going to help me to win Wimbledon.

                  Q. So he's not with you this year, or anything?
                  A. No, he's my friend and I had nice talks to him when I go home, but it's
                  nothing to do with the spiritual things.

                  Q. Now that this match is over, let's get to the really important stuff:
                  Croatia in the World Cup.
                  A. That's very important. So far so good, and now it's Argentina, and then I
                  would like to play England, you know.

                  Q. Why?
                  A. Because they really playing bad, and --

                  Q. If you get to the second round of the World Cup, how would you attack
                  England?
                  A. Attack England? I mean, the defence where they are is not tough to
                  attack them, you know. It's a lot of holes, so we can sneak with our
                  attackers, and if Chuka and if Bobam plays, it helps a lot of the Croatian
                  game, mid-field. So I think -- but I'm scared with this Argentina match a
                  little bit, because we have to win. If you draw, they're first in the group and
                  then we play Romania, which are the better team, and the way they play, I
                  don't think they suit our game. But I always believe when it's one game, it's
                  always 50/50, it doesn't matter who plays, and anything is possible.

                  Q. Could you have been a professional soccer player? You're a great
                  athlete. We all recognise how athletic you are. Could you have been a
                  professional football player?
                  A. I was, as a young kid, selected in the team in my city, but I already
                  picked tennis, and it was tough, and I don't know, maybe, maybe not.

                  Q. What would you have played?
                  A. I like to play in the attacking. I practised last year with the team in Split,
                  and I love football, and maybe I miss only one or two matches until now in
                  this World Cup.