When I was a child, I had posters of James Dean in my room. I was a big admirer of his work and was fascinated by him living on the edge. Looking back, my life was kind of the same.

So this is it. Match point for eternity.

I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I love to play.

If I go into a club now, all the blonde girls leave my corner and all the black girls come into my corner. It's as if I'm racist towards white girls!

I haven't lost a war. No one got killed. I just lost a tennis match.

Every time you are not practicing someone else is.

I met with my lawyers. They gave me all the wrong advice. For a long time I refused to accept the child was mine. I should have met her, arranged a DNA test and accepted my responsibility.

I can't change history, I don't want to change history. I can only change the future. I'm working on that.

Tennis is a psychological sport, you have to keep a clear head. That is why I stopped playing.

I drew my strength from fear. Fear of losing. I don't remember the games I won, only the games I lost.

I don't really care what the man on the street thinks. I never did anything to please him in the first place, and I'm not going to start now.

I do respect clever.

Not enough," he said, letting her hair slip through his fingers. "If I kiss you all day, everyday, for the rest of my life, it won't be enough.

A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost.

Heresy is only another word for freedom of thought.

We shall some day catch an abstract truth by the tail, and then we shall have our religion and our immortality.

I'll be forever grateful to this instrument for being the surfboard that I rode the wave of life on

Nobody had told me I was common.

That is why he is a Warrior of the Light, because he has been through all this and yet has never lost hope of being better than he is.

But after being fired at once or twice, The ear becomes more Irish, and less nice.

Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.