Tennis has to become everything to you if you're going to make it to the top. You have to live it.
Life is not worth living if I cannot have pasta or bread again.
I have to live for the day, and not worry about or try to know what tomorrow brings.... if I've learned one thing from all that'shappened to me, it's that if you would know what tomorrow brings, you may not want to live it.
That's the key to success, isn't it? It has to be fun.
I used to pretend that I was Tom attacking Jerry, who was drawn on the ball
People think I must have been so talented at an early age, but I don't know - was it talent or hard work? Who knows?
I did realize more than ever, after the stabbing, that tennis is a business - a tough business.
I'm about the present.
I decided that I want to live the rest of my life happy with what I'm doing. So when I play tennis again, I have to play it for the right reason. I don't want to play to get my No. 1 ranking back. I don't want to play for the attention, or to earn more. I don't even want to play because the world wants to see me do it, even though it's nice to know that the world is interested. I only want to play because I love the game, which is the reason I began to play at age seven in the first place.
You have to want to play it all day, every day to get to the top.
It doesnt matter who is playing or how old they are. I just worry about what I can control. It doesnt give me more or less motivation.
You will never have great tennis champions from England because of the cold and dark, but most of all because people only care about the sport for two weeks a year, and then they're on to something else. There's just not a great love of the sport there
As you know, I was one of the original grunters. But Jimmy Connors used to grunt way before I was born. I never knew I was grunting, it was just part of my strokes.
It's a drag having to wear socks during matches, because the tan, like, stops at the ankles. I can never get my skin, like, color coordinated.
Tennis is so competitive. I guess that's the way it has to be.
I am lucky to have advisers whom I trust.
I don't believe in playing hurt, in taking injections to cover the pain.
I think for me, food was a way for me to deal with emotional trouble.
I have this terrible dark side to my personality, which playing tennis keeps at bay
I never knew I was grunting, it was just part of my strokes.
I don't like salads: I like the strong food.
Madonna has total control over her life, and not many women have that
I'm 5 feet 10 inches, and whatever my whatever my weight is, that's fine. As long as I am able to move and I feel good, it doesn't matter.
I never really did Christmas before. Christmas Day? I mean - what's that? What's it all about? I was always flying on Christmas Day
What I put in the stock market, I dont have to touch in my lifetime. I want to live off my bonds. I want to be that safe.
