I lost in the second round of the French Open and had 10 days off. I went to the Hard Rock Cafe. It was exciting to be away from my parents, to stay in a hotel. Hotels at 17 meant freedom.

So this is it. Match point for eternity.

I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I love to play.

If I go into a club now, all the blonde girls leave my corner and all the black girls come into my corner. It's as if I'm racist towards white girls!

I haven't lost a war. No one got killed. I just lost a tennis match.

Every time you are not practicing someone else is.

I met with my lawyers. They gave me all the wrong advice. For a long time I refused to accept the child was mine. I should have met her, arranged a DNA test and accepted my responsibility.

I can't change history, I don't want to change history. I can only change the future. I'm working on that.

Tennis is a psychological sport, you have to keep a clear head. That is why I stopped playing.

I drew my strength from fear. Fear of losing. I don't remember the games I won, only the games I lost.

I don't really care what the man on the street thinks. I never did anything to please him in the first place, and I'm not going to start now.

Oh, I've no patience with these romances. They're the ruin of all order. It's a thousand pities they ever happened

People don't change when they don't acknowledge their actions.

History at its best is vicarious experience.

Friendship's the wine of life.

It is absolutely impossible for a subject to see or have insight into something while leaving itself out of the picture, so impossible that knowing and being are the most opposite of all spheres.

If people want to pigeon hole you then just view it as an opportunity to prove them wrong and show that you are different to what they think you are.

Not all guys that look a certain way or dress a certain way or act a certain way are the same.

The one without dreams is the one without wings.

Each element of the cosmos is positively woven from all the others...The universe holds together, and only one way of considering it is really possible, that is, to take it as a whole, in one piece.

Some say, what is the Salvation of the Movies? I say, run 'em backwards. It can't hurt 'em and it's worth a trial.