I think it was the right time for me to retire because nowadays tennis is too incredibly fast and you can say that my style tennis went out of fashion.

I started when I was 8 years old, which is obviously nowadays pretty late, but I guess in my generation it was all right. I had plenty of other interests and I didn't do only tennis.

I was maybe only 13 or 14 when I started to play junior tournaments.

Seems like most of the kids today are into other sports other than tennis.

I would like to see it go back to the wood racquets. To see the touch put back in tennis.

If we can make some kind of adjustments, maybe in the game, to make it interesting and slow down the surfaces, then it will be more fun and more interesting.

It is never too late to love.

Intent matters. Integrity matters. Courage matters. If you have the three, nothing else matters

You can either follow your dreams with determination and persistence until they become true, or you can be blown by the winds of fate - were anything can happen.

I pay the School Master but 'tis the school boys that educate my son.

The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.

It can be... difficult to to learn how the world truly is, to see it in its true shape and form... most human beings never do. Most could not bear it.

...whenever there is inspiration...and enthusiasm...there is a creative empowerment that goes far beyond what a mere person is capable of.

The first requisite of a gentleman is to be true, brave and noble, and to be therefore a rebuke and scandal to venal and vulgar souls.

I always wanted to make aliens that looked like '60s aliens.

The terrible importance of this life is that it determines eternity.