The minute you think you know everything about tennis is the minute your game starts going down the tubes.

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

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.

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.

Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?

Don't let a cruel word escape your mouth. There's no greater sin than breaking a heart.

Because I think people must be the same everywhere. Only these people are in my bones.

Dreams are things from the past. They aren't from the future. That wasn't you imprisoned there. You imprison your dreams. You understand?Yeah, I'd say. But I wasn't convinced.

If it's wrong when they do it, it's wrong when we do it.

I look at American movies, the big muscles, and try to apply that to Chinese film-making.

Man is the mirror God holds up to himself, the sense organ with which he apprehends his being.

Growing up I never got into comic books at all. I didn't have any inspiration for it.

People can think what they want to think, I don't go after people. I think most people I talk to, like me, are very quiet and keep to themselves, they maintain their lives.

Intelligence has got the upper hand to such an extent that it transforms the real task into an unreal trick and reality into a play.