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.

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

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.

My body covered with flames of betrayal and my eyes filled with tears of pain, I do not feel good.

The sweetest pleasures are those which are hardest to be won.

Wiggy & I were drug buddies. There is no tighter compact for friendship. There is no greater potential for deceit.

The Duke is worried you lack the fitness to walk up Bond Street. You’re generation lacks the drive.

Women must be full partners in development, so they can lift themselves and their communities out of poverty.

To be first-rate at anything you have to stake your all. Nobody's an artist 'on the side'.

Bullfight critics row on row Fill the enormous Plaza de toros But only one is there who knows And he is the one who fights the bull.

I'm one of those people who snake through the crowd, keep my head low. I'm not looking for attention.

Hold it the greatest sin to prefer existence to honour, and for the sake of life to lose the reasons for living.

Even a poet cannot get everything right.