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.

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.

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

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

Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.

We need to see our collective mind as the vehicle that will take us to the destiny of our dreams

The doing and the daring are the magic keys to unlocking the treasure chest.

Wisdom of the Ages: "Ferguson Riots" They were ready to tear America to shreds over their grief-right until the TV cameras left to cover the football games.

I'm so fat and I'm so depressed; last night I tried to hang myself - but the rope broke.

A Miscellany is a collection without a natual ordering relation.

Maybe when your mother died young, you became instantly old.

I love Shakespeare. In Shakespeare, tragedy is not just something that's bad. It's something that could be good and is bad.

I didn't get into music to win awards. I love to play and the older I get the more I love it. And I love new things.

I got a chain letter by fax. It's very simple. You just fax a dollar bill to everybody on the list.