The trouble with experience is that by the time you have it you are too old to take advantage of it.

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.

At one point in your life you start to understand that all what really matters is the love you give and the love you receive.

Books make such good friends and quiet neighbors.

You can't move forward if you're still hanging on.

You can't just rattle it off like a demented parrot.

It takes great personal courage to let yourself appear weak.

Good fiction necessarily encompasses our limited understandings of one another, and of ourselves.

If I had only one friend left, i'd want it to be you.

Nothing can teach you what it's like to work on a film set, and the best education there can be for an actor is to walk up the street and observe human nature.

When the mind is most empty It is most full.

The bigger you build the bonfire, the more darkness is revealed.