The only way to get back the confidence is to play and win matches. You can practise as much as you like, but you need confidence that comes from playing and winning matches.

It's about you. If you win, it's you; if you lose, it's you. Black and white. Nowhere to hide.

The downside isn't really injury, fear of injury or the process of fighting back from injury. The downside, the very worst thing in the world, is surgery.

You win any which way you can. You do what you have to do to get by. That's the way it works in any job.

Basically, it's just fatigue, ... I've run out of gas a little bit. I've played a lot this summer, and the body's just telling me I'm fatigued.

I'm really looking forward to getting back and winning some matches but I'm not thinking about the U.S. Open yet, just getting through my first match.

If I stay healthy and I'm playing good tennis I have as good a chance as anybody.

I don't read all the newspapers.

It is a big adjustment but I've always loved that old saying of Jack Nicklaus: 'I retired from golf to go to work.' That sums it up for me.

My biggest problem will be lack of match toughness but I am a positive, optimistic person.

I'm happy in retirement.

...don't think love is just an emotion - I am dangerous and you know it because I will do anything you ask me to do...

When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth.

Somebody asked me once, 'Do you think that swing will ever come back?' And I said, 'Do you think the 1938 Ford will ever come back?'

Certain peer pressures encourage little fingers to learn how to hold a football instead of a crayon. I confess to having yielded to these pressures.

The joy of the roasts is to watch people get hurt and offended, and then have to laugh to pretend they're a good sport.

Undoubtedly, in the most brilliant successes, the first rank is always sacrificed.

Fencing isn't really fighting. It's more like chess with the risk of puncture wounds

There is no worse death than the end of hope.

True friendship is like the asphalt of life. It fills in the potholes and makes the journey smooth.

We can choose to throw stones, to stumble on them, to climb over them, or to build with them.