There was never anything I wanted to do more than play tennis. Never once walked out there and thought, 'I wish I was doing something else.' Not once.

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.

Make your desire for a better life stronger than your desire to stay in misery.

It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

...it is prodigious the quantity of good that may be done by one man if he will make a business of it.

The big lie is that the people who make a lot of money were the only ones that worked hard.

Scientology, how about that? You hold on to the tin cans and then this guy asks you a bunch of questions, and if you pay enough money you get to join the master race. How's that for a religion ?

To only a fraction of the human race does God give the privilege of earning one's bread doing what one would have gladly pursued free, for passion.

It is much easier to be flexible about where a story begins than it ever was for me to change my mind about where and how a story ended.

I do miss competing, being out there - the atmosphere, I do miss it.

The refs are so confused themselves because there's so many rules. It's like, 'Oh my gosh I've never seen this many rules in my life.' And everybody's trying to govern this and justify that.

I will keep that a secret as it was so indecent I doubt she was in her normal state of mind when she made it.