You have to want to play it all day, every day to get to the top.

Life is not worth living if I cannot have pasta or bread again.

Tennis has to become everything to you if you're going to make it to the top. You have to live it.

I don't believe in playing hurt, in taking injections to cover the pain.

I used to pretend that I was Tom attacking Jerry, who was drawn on the ball

That's the key to success, isn't it? It has to be fun.

I did realize more than ever, after the stabbing, that tennis is a business - a tough business.

It doesnt matter who is playing or how old they are. I just worry about what I can control. It doesnt give me more or less motivation.

Tennis is so competitive. I guess that's the way it has to be.

As you know, I was one of the original grunters. But Jimmy Connors used to grunt way before I was born. I never knew I was grunting, it was just part of my strokes.

I have this terrible dark side to my personality, which playing tennis keeps at bay

The best way to pray is to open the Bible and pray Scripture back to the Lord, claiming His promises and asking that He strengthen and guide [us] in obeying His Word.

When I hear music I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times and to the latest.

The genius of vinyl is that it allows - commands! - us to put our fingerprints all over that history: to blend and chop and reconfigure it, mock and muse upon it, backspin and skip through it.

God is not calling us to go to church; he is calling us to be his church, the hope of the world.

How do you become enlightened? Have fun, meditate, don't take yourself too seriously, brush between incarnations and have a good teacher.

When governments claim to derive their authority from any source other than the governed, it always leads to the destruction of liberty.

No one's just going to hand you a career. I waited for years for someone to hand me one and it never happened.

Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?

By getting as close to the true idea of religion, of spirituality as it is possible for us to get.. ...we would be in possession of the only tangible relationship tot the deity in things.

As a kid, I felt really weird.