Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it.

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.

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.

I was raised by two women, and that laid the groundwork for the way I treat 'em: with the utmost respect and admiration.

Jesus is persecuted in every injured saint, and He is mighty to avenge His beloved ones.

Clearly the Old One had the capacity to kill - or easily deliver some sort of final ending that sounded remarkably like death.

Every person has something meaningful to say in the conversation of life.

I try to be cool with everybody, but sometimes, everybody just has different personalities, motives, and different characters.

When you hold on to anger and unforgiveness, you can't move forward.

What I've learned in the past 12 years of recording (I made my first CD at 12) is how important it is to find one's authentic voice.

It's my heart that is tired. A thirteen-year-old heart shouldn't feel like this.

Always make sure your jewelry isn't taking over you or your ensemble and keep everything in proportion to your frame

There is no illness of the body except for the mind

I've never thought about the con of living in New York as a writer. Because I always think, Oh, what fun to be around so many writers. Because I've never been around so many writers.