I've been here playing against Connors and it can be very, very loud. It makes it exciting at the same time.

If you serve well, your volleys are going to be so much easier. It has got to do with confidence, obviously.

I've been in a lot of trouble and come out of it. I think it shows a lot of good character.

The crowds can be very loud, especially when you're playing in the evening.

As years go by, chances of winning here are getting slimmer. That's just a matter of fact. It does get tougher, but it's possible, there's a tiny little chance.

I'm telling you, it's so exciting playing out there because I'm playing well, you have the crowd behind you, and it's such a good feeling. I'm really having a good time out there.

I felt better being in the background. That's the way I like it.

I'm really trying to focus myself on playing tennis, and I think that's really important.

Once you succeed in tennis, financially you become quite well off.

A good thing is I've been playing tennis I think every day for the last two months. I really haven't had a day off. I've been doing things that I did used to do.

I've been on the tour for many, many years. It's time for me to go now, before it's too late.

Culture is the best society has to offer...How can we pass on civilization to those who do not value civilization. (Terrence Rattigan)

What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is People want to get something for nothing.

Cultural change works orders of magnitude faster then genetic change. Stephen Jay Gould

I do whatever is necessary in order to maintain the equanimity we all need to withstand the disappointment and rejection that are the lot of every writer, no matter where we are in our careers.

Pascal and Voltaire both probably had IQs in the neighborhood of 200.

I'm an equal opportunity reader - although I don't much read plays. And since I was raised a Presbyterian, pretty much all pleasures are guilty.

My symphonies would have reached Opus 100 if I had but written them down... Sometimes I am so full of music, and so overflowing with melody, that I find it simply impossible to write down anything.

Depart from the highway, and transplant thyself in some enclosed ground; for it is hard for a tree that stands by the wayside to keep her fruit till it be ripe.

I'd moved to L.A. with my mother when I was 17 or 18. She loved show business and I was young enough that I had no idea what I wanted to do.

Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.