Big money encourages tanking. In my opinion, tanking is going on even with a lot of the top guys today - it's quite evident.

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.

So long as atrocities remain remote, abstract, they will be tolerated, even by decent people.

Green meant water, green patches meant farmers and farmers meant agriculture. Agriculture meant food to eat and food to sell, which meant towns and transport. They had reached civilization.

And when the day arrives I'll become the sky and I'll become the sea and the sea will come to kiss me for I am going home. Nothing can stop me now.

Freedom is the disappearance of that which is searching for freedom.

Every year, thousands of Californians flee that populous paradise for tax-eased small government oasis of America's red states.

All things are possible with God, but all things are not easy.

Religious Cult: The church down the street from yours.

I have always thought of myself as a Czechoslovak Catholic.

One of the most striking aspects of abstract art's appearance is her nakedness, an art stripped bare.