From where we lived, to practise in St Louis was an hour-and-a-half drive each way, so that took a lot of the time. So really, our lives just took different paths.

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.

True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.

The lesser of two evils was still evil.

I'm about 90 percent vegan. I think veganism is really well suited for training, at least for me anyway.

I never write in the daytime. It's like running through the shopping mall with your clothes off. Everybody can see you. At night ... that's when you pull the tricks ... magic.

Make people's portraits in familiar and typical attitudes.

Every person is born with a talent, and happiness depends on discovering that talent in time.

Thinking is the greatest torture in the world for most people.

Any day you wake up, maybe you die.

Whatever vocation you decide on, track down the best people in the world at doing it and surround yourself with them.

Find people who love you unconditionally, surround yourself with them, and bring them the same level of intensity.