Basically I started playing double handed on both my forehand and backhand side because my first racket was very heavy.

If you're afraid of losing, then you daren't win.

You have to find it. No one else can find it for you.

My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match.

He [Jimmy Connors] has one weakness. He can never say his opponent played well. That's why it feels good to beat him and that's why other players would rather beat him than any other player.

I have a great family, great kids. I have practically everything, you know? Sometimes I have to pinch myself. It's really true: Life starts at 50.

The ball is round, the game is long.

I wanted to win, even in practice.

On Rafael Nadal: Every point he plays is like match point. That's why he's the champion right now.

When I retired from tennis I wanted to do other things with my life.

It's tough when you're No. 1. You don't have any private life, you can't even walk anywhere. I think that was one reason why I lost my motivation to play tennis.

I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.

There's power in looking silly and not caring that you do.

The nice thing about really intelligent people is that when you talk with them they make you feel intelligent too.

The 880-yard heel and toe walk is the closest a man can come to experiencing the panges of childbirth.

Work is valued by the social value of the worker.

Often the wisdom of the body Clarifies the despair of the spirit.

When the roses are gone, nothing is left but the thorn.

Hillary Clinton has held vast dreams. She was inspired at a young age that society does well when women and children do.

In economics, you always want to ask 'And then what?'