I am lucky to have advisers whom I trust.

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.

Love is elixir that keeps you alive. Love is poison that kills you. Unreciprocated love keeps you alive, but kills every day.

Everything in New Orleans was competitive. People would always be betting on who was the best and the greatest in everything. That's where the battles of music came in.

A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.

Greatness is earned, not given.

I'm not someone who feels like I have to do it the same way. I never feel restricted. It all should grow out of different moments and if it goes completely different that's how it should go.

I can't give you a brain, but I can give you a diploma.

By many a temple half as old as Time.

Throughout whatever I do, I always just say "Director" first. I am directing the storylines and I'm creating what it is.

Even in the midst of devastation, something within us always points the way to freedom.

We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.