I don't look at myself as a historical icon, but the reality of it is, yeah, I am playing for history now.

People know me. I'm not going to produce any cartwheels out there. I'm not going to belong on Comedy Central. I'll always be a tennis player, not a celebrity.

In tennis, you can make a couple of mistakes and still win. Not in golf. I played three rounds in that Tahoe event, and I was drained. Mentally, not physically.

In tennis, you can make a couple of mistakes and still win. Not in golf.

The only person that I have met, that I have ever been in awe of, is Eddie Vedder.

The difference of great players is at a certain point in a match they raise their level of play and maintain it. Lesser players play great for a set, but then less.

I made it look so easy on court all those years. No one realized how hard I had to work. No one realized how much I had to put into it. They underestimated my intensity.

I never wanted to be the great guy or the colorful guy or the interesting guy. I wanted to be the guy who won titles.

I let my racket do the talking. That's what I am all about, really. I just go out and win tennis matches.

You kind of live and die by the serve.

Anybody who has played sports and says they have never choked is lying to you.

..but it seemed to him that the tie between husband and wife, if breakable in prosperity, should be indissoluble in misfortune.

Willingness to possess is the beginning of..love hurts.

My mother once said "If you don't pay attention to age, then it won't pay attention to you." And she says it, and it sounds nice, but I don't buy it.

The suffering caused by the terrorists is the real torture.

I think it's a bigger risk following a part that plays up your looks than it is to try and carve out a career as an actor.

Finland must not be allowed to disappear off the map.

No,' Ben says, 'but I believe it. I believe it for you. And that's why it's hope.

In the stillness of the mind I saw myself as I am - unbound.

I would encourage people to go to NYTIMES.com and read this column and you can see for yourself.