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I've been kicked in the teeth more times in tennis than the law ought to allow.

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

I always insist on my jeans being ironed. Is that a problem?

Use it or lose it.

Big money encourages tanking. In my opinion, tanking is going on even with a lot of the top guys today - it's quite evident.

But why should I read what somebody else thinks of my life when I know the real story?

When you're hot, anything can happen.

People say I'm around because I have a lot of heart, but I know all the heart in the world couldn't have helped me if I wasn't physically fit.

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

Nothing's perfect along the way [in life], and you ride the ups and downs. It's how you come out of those and continue on that I guess really matters.

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

Equality? They ought to play the women's final on opening day. Everybody knows who's going to be in it.

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

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

The trouble with experience is that by the time you have it you are too old to take advantage of it.

There is only one number one. It is a lonely spot but it has got the best view of all.

I hate to lose more than I love to win.

Back in East St. Louis, tennis wasn't the real thing. If you weren't playing baseball, basketball, football, you were kind of on the outside.

For the last five or six years the most important thing in my life has been my family.

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.

Tennis was never work for me, tennis was fun. And the tougher the battle and the longer the match, the more fun I had.

Every time I went out there I performed the best that I could and it was time to step back and clear my mind.

I like any title with the letters U.S. in front of it. To me, the U.S. Open is the most important tournament in the world.

There was never anything I wanted to do more than play tennis. Never once walked out there and thought, 'I wish I was doing something else.' Not once.

The minute you think you know everything about tennis is the minute your game starts going down the tubes.

Tennis would be much more exciting if they had pitching machines firing Tennis was given to me to keep me off the street corners of east St. Louis.

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

I was never part of the crowd.

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 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.

What works for the person you're imitating may not work for you.

I don't go out there to love my enemy. I go out there to squash him.