My goal one day is to be in the same sentence as Rod Laver and Ken Rosewall.

People know me. I'm not going to produce any cartwheels out there. I'm not going to belong on Comedy Central. I'll always be a tennis player, not a celebrity.

In tennis, you can make a couple of mistakes and still win. Not in golf. I played three rounds in that Tahoe event, and I was drained. Mentally, not physically.

In tennis, you can make a couple of mistakes and still win. Not in golf.

The only person that I have met, that I have ever been in awe of, is Eddie Vedder.

The difference of great players is at a certain point in a match they raise their level of play and maintain it. Lesser players play great for a set, but then less.

I made it look so easy on court all those years. No one realized how hard I had to work. No one realized how much I had to put into it. They underestimated my intensity.

I never wanted to be the great guy or the colorful guy or the interesting guy. I wanted to be the guy who won titles.

I let my racket do the talking. That's what I am all about, really. I just go out and win tennis matches.

You kind of live and die by the serve.

Anybody who has played sports and says they have never choked is lying to you.

Dream like a child. Reason like an elder. Play like a youth. Work like an adult.

There is no wrong way to perform an act of kindness.

Hot cocoa and cold toes remind me of Christmas.

It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.

My desire is to walk with God every day.

Milan. What a beautiful place to die.

Oftentimes, the more power and prestige a person achieves, the more arrogant a person can become.

Drunks do not have friends, but accomplices.

Even when the wound is healed the scar remains.

Today I am a small blue thing Like a marble or an eye