Roger Federer certainly is my claim to be the best of all time - if there is such a thing. With Rafael Nadal not far behind.

The next point - that's all you must think about.

The time your game is most vulnerable is when you're ahead; never let up.

I like to let my racket do the talking.

The roughest thing I ever said to an umpire was, 'Are you sure?'

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

When you've got your man down, rub him out.

An otherwise happily married couple may turn a mixed doubles game into a scene from Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf.

There's a lot of ingredients go into being a good tennis player.

You can't judge a man by the way he reacts when things go right, but by the way he reacts when things go wrong.

Let's life bring a joy, and let's realise that this now is a lie and to make a truth. To make a real life!

you areas fleetingly beautifulas a mother’s tearsand a father’s pranksa brother’s bachelorhoodand a best friend’s bad mooda bride’s glittering jittersand a handsome stranger’s smile.

REFUSALWhen you refuseto tell your weightand age, people knowyou're fat and old.

If one man offers you democracy and another offers you a bag of grain, at what stage of starvation do you prefer the grain to the vote?

I haven't hit the bestseller list, but I consider myself one of the luckiest writers in the world, and this is mainly because of Grub Street.

I know that an author must be brave enough to chop away clinging tentacles of good taste for the sake of a great work. But this is no great work, you see.

I don't admit that a woman draws that well!

No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one

In preparing the soil for planting, you will need several tools. Dynamite would be a beautiful thing to use, but it would have a tendency to get the dirt into the front-hall and track up the stairs.