I'd won the Australian Open twice, but winning Wimbledon takes something special.

If you serve well, your volleys are going to be so much easier. It has got to do with confidence, obviously.

I've been in a lot of trouble and come out of it. I think it shows a lot of good character.

I've been here playing against Connors and it can be very, very loud. It makes it exciting at the same time.

The crowds can be very loud, especially when you're playing in the evening.

As years go by, chances of winning here are getting slimmer. That's just a matter of fact. It does get tougher, but it's possible, there's a tiny little chance.

I'm telling you, it's so exciting playing out there because I'm playing well, you have the crowd behind you, and it's such a good feeling. I'm really having a good time out there.

I felt better being in the background. That's the way I like it.

I'm really trying to focus myself on playing tennis, and I think that's really important.

Once you succeed in tennis, financially you become quite well off.

A good thing is I've been playing tennis I think every day for the last two months. I really haven't had a day off. I've been doing things that I did used to do.

Believe and love yourself.

The better I get to know men the more I find myself loving dogs.

This nation's impulse is toward the future, and tradition seems more of a shackle to it than an inspiration.

The challenge these days, is to be somewhere, to belong to some particular place, invest oneself in it, draw strength and courage from it, to dwell in a community.

When the world question your abilities, respond with your actions.

I would as soon pray to God with machinery as to sing to God with machinery.

Sophistication and lifestyle is understanding the difference between trinkets and treasures.

If we are going to be masters of our destiny, we must be masters of the ideas that influence that destiny.

The gut-check message is do we have the right balance in our culture? Or are we in a position where hero worship and winning at all costs has subordinated our core values?

The evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in 1976 coined the term ‘meme’ for a unit of cultural imitation.