I used to pretend that I was Tom attacking Jerry, who was drawn on the ball

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.

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

Guard well your thoughts when alone and your words when accompanied.

We may find great relief and inexplicable solace in purposefully looking beyond grief in order to determine the provision made within it.

I've been through hell in this life, yet risen up and survived.I felt pity after heard that boy's preaching about motivation.

But if by some miracle and all our struggle, the earth is spared, only justice to every living being will save humankind.

I am made of endless hours. Not just split seconds.

UNIX is simple and coherent, but it takes a genius (or at any rate, a programmer) to understand and appreciate its simplicity.

If you are a successful person and you let a lot of people in and around your life, they can drain your power. It won't go to them, but it will leave you.

As a matter of history great developments in art have often been remarkably separate from religious motivation and use.

A few moments of silence may be all the meditation we need at times. Our homes could have a little space for withdrawal and quiet, and even a small garden could offer some distance from noise.

I have Indian Blood in me. I have just enough white blood for you to question my honesty!