It's tough when you're No. 1. You don't have any private life, you can't even walk anywhere. I think that was one reason why I lost my motivation to play tennis.

If you're afraid of losing, then you daren't win.

You have to find it. No one else can find it for you.

My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match.

He [Jimmy Connors] has one weakness. He can never say his opponent played well. That's why it feels good to beat him and that's why other players would rather beat him than any other player.

I have a great family, great kids. I have practically everything, you know? Sometimes I have to pinch myself. It's really true: Life starts at 50.

The ball is round, the game is long.

I wanted to win, even in practice.

On Rafael Nadal: Every point he plays is like match point. That's why he's the champion right now.

When I retired from tennis I wanted to do other things with my life.

I had a great tennis career. I have no regrets. But to find peace with yourself, and to finally be with your family - I'm probably the happiest guy in the world.

To every complex challenge, there exist a define solution.

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

If civil society has nobody who protects the law, then what kind of society is that?

I always said it kept me alive - photography - because it did. It was my catharsis.

I always love to do something different and new and be challenged by different characters.

The chief function of color should be to serve expression as well as possible.

That man, the king of vacations... the king of vacations in his ranch said nothing but, you have to flee, and didn't say how... that cowboy, the cowboy mentality.

I call myself a literary agent simply to distinguish myself from actors' agents.

Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to what serves morality or produces serenity of soul.

As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it, the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.