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.

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

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.

I was raised by two women, and that laid the groundwork for the way I treat 'em: with the utmost respect and admiration.

His sadness was of the kind that is patient and without hope.

Like they say, the game is chess, it damn sure ain't checkers. Every move I make is so that I can conquer and destroy.

The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.

Some 70 percent of Americans donated to Katrina victims.

Essentially any history we have is just a history of aristocrats. We don't have any history of people.

If all alms were given only from pity, all beggars would have starved long ago.

I just said yes to opportunities that came my way.

No. I just don't want to be a detective. They figure out what happened after the fact, when it's too late. I want to prevent it from happening.

The word 'Sudra' which means 'Son of prostitute' should not find a place even in the history hereafter. We will not allow it to find a place in the dictionary or encycl

Manhattan has generated a shameless architecture that has been loved in direct proportion to its defiant lack of self-hatred, has been respected exactly to the degree that it went too far.