I never knew I was grunting, it was just part of my strokes.

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.

The moon's a crazy sweetheart.

Faith is not a thing which one 'loses', we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

There was great difference in persons; and discretion did not always accompany years, nor was youth always without it.

I do podcasts for the same reasons I do stand-up comedy. I love it, and I don't care if anybody else gets it.

You'll never know what's happening inside the heads of other people.

I cook British food, but it doesn't mean I'm jingoistic about it. People can cook very good fusion food.

Male privilege and entitlement are dying a very painful death; no one gives up power without a struggle.

We cannot outperform our level of self-esteem.

She entered a state where prayer and poetry became one and the everyday world seemed full of holiness and significance.

If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.