You don't cheat anybody out of their experience, whatever it is.

What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.

If you don't practice you don't deserve to win.

All the good stuff is on the other side of tired.

Tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love - the basic elements of tennis are those of everyday existence, because every match is a life in miniature.

Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work

I feel old when I see mousse in my opponent's hair.

Success doesn't always come in the form of a trophy. Keep striving for success.

If I've learned nothing else, it's that time and practice equal achievement.

The great part about tennis is you can't run out the clock.... As long as we were still playing, I had a chance.

What you feel doesn’t matter in the end; it’s what you do that makes you brave.

The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he's a baby.

They (parents) have been doing this (imposing their beliefs about life on you) since you were born. That’s more than enough to establish a habit.

A good mind is the mind which leaves no one on the ground when rising!

The strength of British theatre should be that these actors in their middle years know what they're doing and are good at it. Not rich, not famous, but making a living.

Unblemish'd let me live or die unknown; Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none!

Creativity and lateral thinking have exactly the same basis as humour.

There are silences harder to take back than words.

There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.

He who does not live in the way of his beliefs starts to believe in the way he lives.

Hunger, love, vanity, and fear. There are four great motives of human action.