I was never part of the crowd.

I hate to lose more than I like to win. I hate to see the happiness on their faces when they beat me!

[In the modern game] you're either a clay court specialist, a grass court specialist or a hard court specialist... or you're Roger Federer...

Greatest thing in life: Winning a tennis match. Second greatest thing in life: Losing a tennis match

Rather than viewing a brief relapse back to inactivity as a failure, treat it as a challenge and try to get back on track as soon as possible.

Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it.

New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up.

I never lost a tennis match, I just ran out of time

I am not looking to be understood or liked. Like me or not, I don't care. I am an outsider, that is the way I was brought up.

I hate to lose more than I love to win.

With everything else that would swirl around me when I got involved in it, tennis was my main concern.

Never rebel for the sake of rebelling, but always rebel for the sake of truth.

Own your own dreams

My stand-up act? I combine the fact that the world is a violent place with the fact that each person is responsible for the situation they are in.

My dream is to continue to be an artist who gets to be different individuals from different walks of life.

Once you leave, you're no longer of that country, but you are never actually of the country that you go to, and if you go back, you're not anywhere. You never belong to anything.

I never thought I was funny. I don't THINK funny.

Love is wonderful, amazing, and the best thing that can happen to us.

I like playing the guy on the sidelines. They have more fun.

You create superheroes to take care of problems that can't really be solved another way.

Failure makes success so much sweeter, and allows you to thumb your nose at the crowds.