There are a lot of good memories, and because I was injured, during the rehab, I met my wife. The tennis was very good but the injuries were good for something too

Guys like John McEnroe, Bjorn Borg and Stefan Edberg were also very good grass court players.

I always liked serve-and-volley players and big athletes

I may have exaggerated a bit when I said that 80 per cent of the top 100 women are fat pigs. What I meant to say was 75 per cent of the top 100 women are fat pigs

For the first couple of years I played really bad tennis. It was so bad that they booed me off the court

But in 2000, the injuries really started to kick in and my elbow gave a lot of problems. At the end of the year I had to take 20 months off before I could come back into the game

Hewitt is such a fighter on the court; he never gives up. They all have qualities to beat him.

But, then again, I had to stop because there was too much pain or too much trouble. After I retired I still had one more elbow surgery just to be able to do normal things

Federer can be the best ever; he has the potential. The only question is whether he has the desire

Now that I have retired, and even though I wanted to play more, I can always look back and say that at least I won Wimbledon; also, winning the tournament in Rotterdam in 1995

I want to reach absolute perfection. And I think I can reach it.

I have seen what hard work can do, and I know what more it can and will do.

You have to be wowed enough with your gift to wow the world with it.

With me: one minus one = one

A library at night is full of sounds: the unread books can't stand it any longer and announce their contents, some boasting, some shy, some devious.

It is my hope that photography may fall in line with all the other arts and with her infinite possibilities, do things strange and more fascinating than the most fantastic dreams.

Your heart works for you, but do you work for your heart?

What matters is not publication or success (success is bad for your prose) but the practice of the imaginative act. Our damaged values depend on it.

Let's not hate ourselves. We are all we have. ... I have been a longtime perpetrator of hate crimes against myself, and I am turning myself in. I have had enough.

Don't think of your goals - think FROM them. Tap into your genius.

Most students of literature can pick apart a metaphor or spot an ethnic stereotype, but not many of them can say things like: 'The poem's sardonic tone is curiously at odds with its plodding syntax.