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

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 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.

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.

Keeping her in her roots of greenness.

Vasectomy means not ever having to say you're sorry.

A word grows to a thought – a thought to an idea – an idea to an act. The change is slow, and the Present is a sluggish traveler loafing in the path Tomorrow wants to take.

Many things have gone wrong with the world that God made and... God insists, and insists very loudly, on our putting them right again

You are a piece of creation. If you go against any other piece of creation, you are unknowingly going against yourself.

Difficult takes a day Impossible takes a week I do this in my sleep

He who knows the truth and does not speak it is a miserable coward.

Some want prayer in school, some want condoms. Printing prayers on condoms satisfies nobody.

I don't think women's prisons are environments for dance routines, and I don't think mass murder is humorous.

Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.