In tennis you're on an island. Of all the games men and women play, tennis is the closest to solitary confinement.

What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.

If you don't practice you don't deserve to win.

All the good stuff is on the other side of tired.

Tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love - the basic elements of tennis are those of everyday existence, because every match is a life in miniature.

Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work

I feel old when I see mousse in my opponent's hair.

Success doesn't always come in the form of a trophy. Keep striving for success.

If I've learned nothing else, it's that time and practice equal achievement.

The great part about tennis is you can't run out the clock.... As long as we were still playing, I had a chance.

What you feel doesn’t matter in the end; it’s what you do that makes you brave.

Sanity is to the mind, insanity is for the heart, Docility is to the mind, wildness is to the heart, Tamable is the mind, Untamable is the heart, Freedom is to the mind, cages are for the heart.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Education forms the common mind.

True poetry, like the religious prompting itself, springs from the emotional side of a man's complex nature, and is ever in harmony with his highest intuitions and aspirations.

You are all a lost generation. [with credit to Gertrude Stein]

I equally dislike the favor of the public with the love of a woman - they are both a cloying treacle to the wings of independence.

You can scare off a lot of cowboys just by looking mean, I guess.

If you get a dog, take care of your dog! You can just not have a dog if you don't feel like taking care of one, it's very easy to not have a dog.

Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere.

My walk is a public one. My business is in the world, and I must mix in the assemblies of men or quit the post which Providence seems to have assigned me.