I like any title with the letters U.S. in front of it. To me, the U.S. Open is the most important tournament in the world.

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.

We, human beings, are strong because we are capable of change .

The opposite of depression isn't feeling happy but being fully alive, however painful

Dawn is a precious time of day. It reminds us that every glory must fade, and that all things, cruel or sweet, come to an end.

Life is too short not to live in peace.

A lot of people would rather understand the market than make money

I wouldn't trust Newcastle's back five to protect my garden gnomes from squirrels.

Keep your baby eyes (which are the eyes of genius) on what we don't know

If possible, avoid being a bubble; for a bubble, even the gentlest touch is fatal.

Surgery has trained me better than anything else to connect with people.

I like to think about society as being a flock of birds: There seems to be a common consciousness in different time periods, and the new common consciousness reacts to the old standards.