I don't believe in playing hurt, in taking injections to cover the pain.

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 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.

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

When human consciousness stops fooling itself and looks at the situation straight on, it can't cope.

I need my own armor, and soon. A silly queen I'll look when I've been slowly flattened into a man.

Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.

Not nature, but the "genius of mankind," has knotted the hangman's noose with which it can execute itself at any moment.

I find that the great majority of public servants across the entire political spectrum come because they believe in the United States and they want to change the world.

A poem is a frozen moment melted by each reader for themselves to flow into the here and now.

I'm one of those people that you have to keep your eye on or I'll wander off into the woods and forget to come back.

A criminal is twice a criminal when he adds hypocrisy to his crime.

There is only one message that can change the course of human history forever, end the torture, and bring you back to God. That message is The New Gospel: WE ARE ALL ONE.

Success is not measured in achievement of goals, but in the stress and strain of meeting those goals