Tennis has to become everything to you if you're going to make it to the top. You have to live it.

Life is not worth living if I cannot have pasta or bread again.

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.

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

The point of therapy is get unhooked not to thrash around on how you got hooked.

If criticism could kill you, I'd be dead.

The examined life has always been pretty well confined to a privileged class.

The worse a situation becomes the less it takes to turn it around, the bigger the upside.

When you are losing it can seem like there is a black cloud following you around, but like they say there is a silver lining in every cloud.

I think I couldn't do what I do [live without money] without studying economics, because you need to understand the system first - how it currently works - in order to change it.

I want to be free... free to develop my art.

My first film role was a reporter. It's funny, because my father was a news reporter. I always thought there was something strange about that.

He doesn't need advice on how to play his position, but he needs advice on how to play team ball... If it's going to be my team, I'll voice my opinion. If he don't like it, he can opt out.

Strictly speaking, Rosneft is not a company. Let us not forget that BP has a stake in Rosneft and BP is a British company.