For the last five or six years the most important thing in my life has been my family.

I hate to lose more than I like to win. I hate to see the happiness on their faces when they beat me!

[In the modern game] you're either a clay court specialist, a grass court specialist or a hard court specialist... or you're Roger Federer...

Greatest thing in life: Winning a tennis match. Second greatest thing in life: Losing a tennis match

Rather than viewing a brief relapse back to inactivity as a failure, treat it as a challenge and try to get back on track as soon as possible.

Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it.

New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up.

I never lost a tennis match, I just ran out of time

I am not looking to be understood or liked. Like me or not, I don't care. I am an outsider, that is the way I was brought up.

I hate to lose more than I love to win.

With everything else that would swirl around me when I got involved in it, tennis was my main concern.

Sometimes you can't fight. Sometimes, some things, you have to outlast.

The life of men and women is so cheap and property is so sacred. There are so many of us for one job it matters little if 146 of us are burned to death.

He'll probably wake up having sleepless nights about that one.

I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about lectures on Railway Development or the Modern Turkish Essay.

Our armies do not come into your cities and lands as conquerors or enemies, but as liberators.

I think fashion is just part of my life and if it hadn't of been fashion then it would have been something else.

A genuine work of art usually displeases at first sight, as it suggests a deficiency in the spectator.

Don't try to take on a new personality; it doesn't work.

Two people can see the same thing, disagree, and yet both be right. It's not logical; it's psychological.

I have not wept since the death of my parents," said Luxa quietly. "But I am thought to be unnatural in this respect.