I'm 5 feet 10 inches, and whatever my whatever my weight is, that's fine. As long as I am able to move and I feel good, it doesn't matter.

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.

My Dreams are not in my eyesMy Eyes are on my Dreams

Enjoy your life, the time you have now, because time cannot be found only lost.

Stay home and the crooks win. They get the night, by default and concession, the night which should rightly belong to all of us.

When one does not die for the other, then we are already dead_

A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was gitting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful.

Healthy attention is to improve what can be improved and to accept what we cannot improve.

Faith ever says, "If Thou wilt," not "If Thou canst.

The ultimate test of a nation's character is not how it responds to adversity in war but how it meets the challenge of peace.

That's always important to us, is being truthful. Not guessing, not making any assumptions. Just coming at it with knowledge.

Americans are in serious intellectual trouble - in danger of losing our hard-won cultural capital to a virulent mixture of anti-intellectualism, anti-rationalism and low expectations.