00:28:05.620I mean, you know, all jokes aside that that's a massive impact for me in my life to be able to go up to people that are really struggling and be like, yo, like you can get out of this.
00:28:14.240You know, so the fact that you the fact that you actually proactively approach those people and honestly, man, like the weight thing is really tough.
00:28:23.120I was I was almost 300 pounds at one point when I when I first got clean in 2010.
00:28:27.620and it's it's really hard to take those first few steps into a more healthy and active lifestyle
00:28:34.400very and and i i think seeing someone who has done it and and you know can offer any kind of
00:28:41.760feedback as to what to do i mean what was what were your i guess i guess playing the sport was
00:28:46.000probably a big one for you but was there any other feedback you can give to the audience for
00:28:49.660for how to turn that corner well i guess just i mean when i was really dealing i mean look but i
00:28:56.280there's a couple pictures on Instagram like I didn't really know that I was like that like I
00:28:59.880didn't think I was like fat at that time like I was so young you know I was just going about it
00:29:04.880playing sport and then I was still a bit chubby at like 17 and then when it was like the coaches
00:29:10.260and stuff that were telling me like you're out of shape or you're eating too much and I was like
00:29:13.640I was just like I wasn't trying to be a professional I was just playing and I was just
00:29:17.820good at it so I was like I don't know I guess there was some people that just kept believing
00:29:22.980in me so like family and friends i know it's cliche to say but you got to keep those people
00:29:26.500around for sure because i pushed those people away when i was really struggling with the drugs
00:29:29.780and alcohol and stuff like i didn't stay in contact with them even though they were trying
00:29:33.380to reach out and then i got back in touch with them and that really helped me because so the
00:29:36.940isolations i mean isolation is terrible that's the worst thing it's it sucks because i talk about
00:29:41.520this a lot there's a lot of people out there who don't have the option to to you know hit up a
00:29:45.500friend or family member because they just don't have them yep and so you know i think a lot of
00:29:49.560the people like you know myself or you that have made it out of those type of places we owe it all
00:29:54.560back to our support network definitely i'd i'd agree with that how do you handle the media
00:30:00.040scrutiny now i'm sure you've developed somewhat of a thick shell yeah big big time um i kind of
00:30:05.020just don't care anymore like i know that the bigger the story they make the more clicks they're
00:30:09.380going to get and it's cool now because i go into a press conference and i know that like at any
00:30:13.180moment i can say something controversial and it's going to blow up any moment at any moment like
00:30:17.640you probably have the same like we could go on twitter right now and just cause a massive0.97
00:30:21.300Thanos snap I'll say some shit should we do it right now as an exercise I shouldn't exercise0.56
00:30:26.680I feel like you guys just get away with you can get away with anything let me tell you something1.00
00:30:29.680no we don't eventually yeah but in real time I'm fun to hate man do do booze affect you at all
00:30:40.540no booze don't affect me when people say something inappropriate like or racist like i've dealt with
00:30:48.000that that grinds my gears a bit that was a big part of breakpoint the netflix doc or not a big
00:30:53.280part but it's a part you mentioned for sure like people just shouting out anything it didn't while0.94
00:30:58.140you're playing yeah well well i got at wimbledon um there was a lady who was like screaming out to
00:31:03.580me like in the middle of the points like this is a wimbledon final yeah how is she how is she not
00:31:08.400get kicked out and tennis is like not like any other sport like especially when you got to be
00:31:12.440quiet like that's just what it is and she's you know screaming out to me screaming out to me and
00:31:16.860then i said something to the umpire i was like how is she not you know whatever and then i ended up
00:31:21.300getting a court case about it oh yeah that's right you had a big so they let her stay wait you can't0.94
00:31:27.980jerk off that's no for real like i mean they find you for every little thing like wearing red shoes0.66
00:31:33.460or like playing with your water bottle but a girl yelling at you in a really important match yeah0.99
00:31:37.120that's what's what was the premise of the case i just said she had like 700 drinks or something1.00
00:31:41.740and then she she sued me for defamation yo get the fuck out of here unicorn suck my dick get1.00
00:31:49.340out of here dude what happened with the case that's whack um i think it's it's all done now1.00
00:31:53.880that's whack dude man that's i i can relate because i i'm on the same uh end of the stick
00:32:02.040but man people would just come after you for anything especially if you are and have painted
00:32:07.140yourself as the bad boy and by the way does that bother you do you feel like the bad boy i'm
00:32:12.100definitely not like anyone that knows me i'm actually just like i'm just i don't know they
00:32:17.180just branded me this ever since i came on tour honestly like i don't do anything crazy at all
00:32:21.580it's because it's because you're not doing anything that anyone else is doing it's very
00:32:25.720different yeah that's it like and you're you're playing with a lot of emotion how many rackets
00:32:29.440if you broke him oh that's that's different a couple grand a couple thousand rackets i think
00:32:33.560that's so many rackets it is it is and it's i don't want to condone it like it's not good
00:32:37.660but i put it this way if i was watching a young guy play like say my son for instance in one day
00:32:42.400and he's losing i would rather see him be frustrated and break a racket than just like
00:32:47.300take it and cop it on the chin like i want to see that he doesn't like losing i just don't like
00:32:51.200double standards like you're not the first person to break like dude people have been smashing
00:32:55.380rackets since the beginning of time yeah skateboarders have been smashing their
00:32:58.340skateboard since the beginning of time like like sports are extremely competitive and extremely
00:33:03.420frustrating at times and and if that's how you choose to take it out like you could have ran
00:33:08.660up and smashed that lady in the face with the racket like that wouldn't have been okay but like
00:33:12.400yeah like smashing a racket in general i don't think it's that bad right to be honest right1.00
00:33:17.420didn't you talk shit to ben stiller no no no no ben stiller was in the crowd he was talking shit0.98
00:33:23.540no no and then there was someone next to him like trying to tell me how to play like he was like1.00
00:33:27.780serve here do this a certain moment i was playing nadal and i said dude just shut up like and then
00:33:34.080i said ben i said do i tell ben stiller how to act like he's like do i tell him how to act why
00:33:38.280are you telling me how to play that was it but it's like what what do you know but it wasn't
00:33:43.320ben it was this boy no it was just another person sitting next to ben you just use this as an example
00:33:47.640but by the way ben's watching you that's ridiculous yeah i love ben stiller it's happy
00:33:51.520imagine imagine imagine oh was it adam sandler no no but ben stiller in happy oh yeah oh yeah
00:33:58.920imagine it was uh imagine ben stiller in that moment just being like what did i do dude like
00:34:02.740why am i being dragged into this he's a massive tennis fan last week uh massive moment in united
00:34:09.820states sports lebron james becomes insane the the highest uh nba scorer of all time i know you're a