For me, the biggest thing with money has always been independence - just the biggest.

Life is not worth living if I cannot have pasta or bread again.

Tennis has to become everything to you if you're going to make it to the top. You have to live it.

I don't believe in playing hurt, in taking injections to cover the pain.

I used to pretend that I was Tom attacking Jerry, who was drawn on the ball

You have to want to play it all day, every day to get to the top.

That's the key to success, isn't it? It has to be fun.

I did realize more than ever, after the stabbing, that tennis is a business - a tough business.

It doesnt matter who is playing or how old they are. I just worry about what I can control. It doesnt give me more or less motivation.

Tennis is so competitive. I guess that's the way it has to be.

As you know, I was one of the original grunters. But Jimmy Connors used to grunt way before I was born. I never knew I was grunting, it was just part of my strokes.

I always keep my dreams so high, that you can keep laughing about it and I can keep growing for it.

A mind full of preconceived ideas, subjective intentions, or habits it not open to things as they are.

With the media how it is these days, people expect to know everything. I don't talk about my girlfriend because essentially she doesn't want to be talked about.

My intimate knowledge of the [UN] system allowed me to get things done despite the many obstacles.

Do what you LOVE to do, and do it so well that those who come to see you do it will bring others to watch you do it again and again and again.

Unity has never meant uniformity.

There's no problem so big that whining won't make it worse.

Bullying exists because of a lack adult intervention.

Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?

I have always been conscious of the importance and the strength of nationalism, and this has led me straight to the acknowledgment of the nationalism of the Palestinian people.