Life is not worth living if I cannot have pasta or bread again.

Tennis has to become everything to you if you're going to make it to the top. You have to live it.

I don't believe in playing hurt, in taking injections to cover the pain.

I used to pretend that I was Tom attacking Jerry, who was drawn on the ball

You have to want to play it all day, every day to get to the top.

That's the key to success, isn't it? It has to be fun.

I did realize more than ever, after the stabbing, that tennis is a business - a tough business.

It doesnt matter who is playing or how old they are. I just worry about what I can control. It doesnt give me more or less motivation.

Tennis is so competitive. I guess that's the way it has to be.

As you know, I was one of the original grunters. But Jimmy Connors used to grunt way before I was born. I never knew I was grunting, it was just part of my strokes.

I have this terrible dark side to my personality, which playing tennis keeps at bay

You see, that is the sad, sorry, terrible thing about sarcasm.It's really funny.

Great women aren't born great, they become great.

Waiting for a battle was the hardest part. Unless you got a dagger in your gut during the battle. Then that was hardest. Or you got through just fine and saw your men dead around you. Then that was.

A muscle is like a car. If you want it to run well early in the morning, you have to warm it up.

In baseball, I was a pitcher, which I hated because there was no action there.

I do not believe in the art which is not the compulsive result of man's urge to open his heart

The only way to get what you really want is to let go of what you don't want.

Art isn't supposed to change the world, but it can.

I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.

Escape from the black cloud that surrounds you. Then you will see your own light as radiant as the full moon.