With everything else that would swirl around me when I got involved in it, tennis was my main concern.

I hate to lose more than I like to win. I hate to see the happiness on their faces when they beat me!

[In the modern game] you're either a clay court specialist, a grass court specialist or a hard court specialist... or you're Roger Federer...

Greatest thing in life: Winning a tennis match. Second greatest thing in life: Losing a tennis match

Rather than viewing a brief relapse back to inactivity as a failure, treat it as a challenge and try to get back on track as soon as possible.

Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it.

New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up.

I never lost a tennis match, I just ran out of time

I am not looking to be understood or liked. Like me or not, I don't care. I am an outsider, that is the way I was brought up.

I hate to lose more than I love to win.

I was raised by two women, and that laid the groundwork for the way I treat 'em: with the utmost respect and admiration.

When the heart is on fire, light comes from within.

Hedge funds have made massive leveraged credit bets, knowing that their upside is billions in fees and their downside is millions in fees.

I used to work at a school as a teacher's assistant, and my mom is a principal at an elementary school. I don't know, I think that's a pretty good life, teaching kids.

I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.

Choose the life that is noblest, for custom can make it sweet to thee.

Nicolai, the Dark Seducer as his people called him, had been in bed, but not alone. He was never alone. He was a man known for the violence of his temper as well as the deliciousness of his touch

No one thought up being. He who thinks he has, step forward.

Brightest truth, purest trust in the universe, all were for me, in the kiss of one girl.

There is only one road to follow, that of analysis of the basic elements in order to arrive ultimately at an adequate graphic expression.

There is a degree of wretchedness and want among the lower class of people which is not anywhere so common as among the Spanish and Portuguese settlements.