Your game is only as good as your second serve

I was a pretty feisty young kid.

They wrote it that my moustache was insured for 13 million.

The strongest and most dangerous enemy you will ever face is a negative attitude. Learn to recognize when it is trying to invade your body and mind, then simply refuse it entry.

I chose to stay with tennis and they didn't understand that at the school.

A few of us who are around the sixty mark don't play that much these days and if you are taking on a couple of guys in their forties it is very difficult.

I wouldn't, a little bit frightened but throughout my life I'd learnt that when you're in the serious situations, you've got to try to stay calm. Because that's the way you get out of them.

At Wimbledon, the ladies are simply the candles on the cake.

I had started my love affair with Wimbledon.

I was in the main draw from the start, my opening match was on Court One against Jan Eric Lundquist of Sweden who was about eight in the world at the time.

You know, I was a regular on the Friday afternoon drill squad. Um, which... The year after I left school, I went back and thanked the sergeant major because I was so fit.

Most times, the way isn’t clear, but you want to start anyway. It is in starting with the first step that other steps become clearer.

I am just like any other girl, a sucker for romance.

I'm an extremist, I have to deal with my own extreme personality, and I walk the fine line of wanting to die and wanting to be the ruler of it all.

The public, obviously, they takes things in a very simplest fashion and so they should. That's why we have such wonderful television.

Romance is always young.

It's not fair. It's not fair," she cried, knowing it was a child's argument but not caring, because being childish did not make it untrue.

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.

Some people are always critical of vague statements. I tend rather to be critical of precise statements; they are the only ones which can correctly be labeled wrong.

The fact is that there is nothing wrong with most of us that a good, clean change of attitude and some new skills wouldn't fix.

Nay, Sir, those who write in them, write well, in order to be paid well.