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

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.

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

...O if we but knew what to do When we delve or hew— Hack and rack the growing green! Since country is so tender To touch, her being só slender,

Find your own joy within and then greater joy will be added to you.

We can do nothing on our own except by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.

It's easier to do horrible things to people if you don't really see them as people.

Affected simplicity is a subtle imposture.

Fate only picks on the cowards and quitters, So give 'em both barrels - and aim for the eyes.

The Heart that is not in love will fail the test.

The true American patriot is by definition skeptical of the government.

Genuine relationships depend first on a healthy relationship with ourselves.