I was in the main draw from the start, my opening match was on Court One against Jan Eric Lundquist of Sweden who was about eight in the world at the time.

I was a pretty feisty young kid.

They wrote it that my moustache was insured for 13 million.

The strongest and most dangerous enemy you will ever face is a negative attitude. Learn to recognize when it is trying to invade your body and mind, then simply refuse it entry.

I chose to stay with tennis and they didn't understand that at the school.

Your game is only as good as your second serve

A few of us who are around the sixty mark don't play that much these days and if you are taking on a couple of guys in their forties it is very difficult.

I wouldn't, a little bit frightened but throughout my life I'd learnt that when you're in the serious situations, you've got to try to stay calm. Because that's the way you get out of them.

At Wimbledon, the ladies are simply the candles on the cake.

I had started my love affair with Wimbledon.

You know, I was a regular on the Friday afternoon drill squad. Um, which... The year after I left school, I went back and thanked the sergeant major because I was so fit.

Biblical spirituality means powerlessness, living without embellishment or pretense, free to be faithful in the gospel, and free from anxiety about effectiveness or similar illusions of success.

We continue to say hi to those we've lost, and for a little while at least, the world down here feels a little less dark.

Intuition: the feeling you know something when you know nothing.

We may come from different places and have different stories, but we share common hopes, and one very American dream.

What can you take from me which is not already yours?

Our first responsibility in all things is to preserve our goodness of heart - then and only then act.

I spent the first 25 years of my life not knowing what I wanted to do.

Never expect women to be sincere, so long as they are educated to think that their first aim in life is to please.

There is nothing wrong with my mind.

When you have expectations, you are setting yourself up for disappointment.