I try not to take myself too seriously. I like to have a good time.

At one point in your life, you'll have the thing you want or the reasons why you don't.

In the States, tennis is sixth or seventh on the totem pole as far as sports go.

You can get the true essence of New Yorkers by just hanging out in Central Park

My serve has killed a small dog ... I'm joking, I'm joking! The dog was huge!

If I can break one out of every three return games, I'm going to give myself a shot in a lot of matches.

Once you get to a certain level, anybody can beat anybody else on any given day.

I'm convinced being a tennis analyst is the easiest job in the world.

The key to the match might have been his serving. Maybe I should have concentrated harder on watching them go by me, I don't know.

I enjoy hitting tennis balls. I haven't lost any of the innocent parts of tennis. I just do it in front of less people.

I'm not going to go run and hide because I'm catching some heat. I'm not going to stay at home and pout.

Centralization is an abomination! Decentralize everything! Leave nothing to the central planners.

Listening to Led Zeppelin's Heartbreaker while reading your own book, sipping a beer after midnight, is a satisfying feeling...however fleeting.

One of the things we found out as we filmed with people who dealt with chimps, and with all animals, and it's really incredible, is their levels of intelligence that we don't recognize right away.

People wouldn't know this about me, but I adore ball gowns. I love their cut, their architecture and the thought of the hands of so many seamstresses working on them.

You never know what's going to happen. Anything can happen there... and often does.

I spent a lot of time taking acting lessons Actors have no inhibitions, and Im inhibited by everything. To be able to make fun of yourself is a skill and a liberating experience.

My mother's in my life, but at the time you imagine your mom passing away, not being there ... as a kid you try to think of something that hurts you the most ... It was just a tool [in "Hardball"].

The poorest man in the world is the man without a dream.The most frustrated man in the world is the man with a dream that never becomes reality.

You apply the skills you use to produce your own book to make an anthology. Shaping. Rhythm.

I myself was born in Sacramento, California in 1966.