Australian tennis brat Bernard Tomic admits he is amazed at how well he's done in his career, given his assertion he has never "really tried".
In a wide-ranging interview with the Seven Network in Australia, 24-year-old Tomic was unapologetic about his view on his tennis career, saying he is surprised with how far talent alone has taken him.
"Throughout my career, there have been times when I've given 100 percent," he said.
"I've given also 30 percent. But if you balance it out, I think all my career's been around 50 percent and I haven't really tried, and really achieved all this.
"So it's just amazing what I've done."
The German-born world number 69 admitted he felt "trapped" by the sport as he was making money he couldn't make doing anything else.
He said there has often been a sense that he had no choice but to turn up and play, even when he wasn't in the right state of mind.
"It's affected me a little bit mentally and emotionally," he said.
"So now it's just about finding my balance and pushing on the next 10 years and being successful even more."
Tomic said he is a proud Australian and pointed to numerous offers he had to change nationalities as a young tennis prodigy.
"There's been big offers to play for different countries. Millions of dollars that ... people could only imagine," said Tomic, who was born to a Croatian father and a Bosnian mother.
"And, you know, I never did that. I stayed loyal to Australia ... at the time though I thought about it.
"The money was insane."
But he had no good words about former Australian Davis Cup captain Pat Rafter.
Rafter has been savagely critical of Tomic's unprofessionalism and strongly believes his countryman should never play for Australia again.
"Pat's said a lot of bad things about me throughout my career and, you know, he's always perceived as this nice guy," said Tomic.
"People don't know him in the back of closed doors. He's not that much of a nice guy ... he likes to put on a show.
Tomic, who was left out of the 2017 Davis Cup team, conceded the side was better off without him until he worked out what he really wanted from his career.
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