I just hated to lose.

If you're afraid of losing, then you daren't win.

You have to find it. No one else can find it for you.

My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match.

He [Jimmy Connors] has one weakness. He can never say his opponent played well. That's why it feels good to beat him and that's why other players would rather beat him than any other player.

I have a great family, great kids. I have practically everything, you know? Sometimes I have to pinch myself. It's really true: Life starts at 50.

The ball is round, the game is long.

I wanted to win, even in practice.

On Rafael Nadal: Every point he plays is like match point. That's why he's the champion right now.

When I retired from tennis I wanted to do other things with my life.

It's tough when you're No. 1. You don't have any private life, you can't even walk anywhere. I think that was one reason why I lost my motivation to play tennis.

The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.

Do you mind not being so kind and obedient? It makes me nervous.

Mathematics is a vast adventure; its history reflects some of the noblest thoughts of countless generations.

Naught is too small and soft to turn and sting.

My instinct is to be very controlling.

I was kind of scared of failing at acting.

Habit is altogether too arbitrary a master for me to submit to.

[The question for the behavioral disciplines is simply] what is better, and how do we get there?

I still feel like an immature idiot inside, but I look in the mirror and - as a friend of mine once said- this old guy keeps getting in the way.

The will to do, the soul to dare..