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.

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

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

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.

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

For some reason all the middle-aged women he knew were very efficient.

Bonding over illegal drugs hadn't magically solved our problems,

Success is not for everyone, but if everyone had a phobia of failure, success was going to be a common thing.

We live for the purpose of loving

But I do care. I hate myself for it, but I can’t fight this desperate need to try. Try to fit in. Try to make this school experience different than all the previous ones.

Familiarity with nature never breeds contempt. The more one learns, the more one expects surprises, and the more one becomes aware of the inscrutable.

We've set aside tens of millions of acres of those northwestern forests for perpetuity. The unemployment rate has gone not up, but down. The economy has gone up.

One heart is not connected to another through harmony alone. They are, instead, linked deeply through their wounds

The photograph is completely abstracted from life, yet it looks like life. That is what has always excited me about photography.

Preserve me from unseasonable and immoderate sleep.