I fear no one, but respect everyone.
Losing is not my enemy..fear of losing is my enemy.
Pressure is a privilege - it only comes to those who earn it.
I enjoyed the position I was in as a tennis player. I was to blame when I lost. I was to blame when I won. And I really like that, because I played soccer a lot too, and I couldn't stand it when I had to blame it on the goalkeeper.
If somebody says I am better than Roger, I think this person doesn't know anything about tennis.
If you can keep playing tennis when somebody is shooting a gun down the street, that's concentration.
When you do something best in life, you don't really want to give that up - and for me it's tennis.
Being champion is all well and good, but you can't eat a crown.
Why do I wear tennis shoes? That's two questions. Do I wear tennis shoes? The answer to that question is, "Yes." "Why?" That's a question philosophers have been pondering for centuries.
Men can have a huge turnover of sponsorship and still survive a lot better than the women. But the women's ratings are better, at least at home in the United States than in the men's tennis.
I play each point like my life depends on it.
Tennis taught me so many lessons in life. One of the things it taught me is that every ball that comes to me, I have to make a decision. I have to accept responsibility for the consequences every time I hit a ball.
Ever since that day when I was 11 years old, and I wasn't allowed in a photo because I wasn't wearing a tennis skirt, I knew that I wanted to change the sport.
The older I get, the better I used to be.
In tennis, it is not the opponent you fear, it is the failure itself, knowing how near you were but just out of reach.
Tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love - the basic elements of tennis are those of everyday existence, because every match is a life in miniature.
I love jeans, T-shirts, boots, and tennis shoes.
One of the greatest joys of tennis is having a nice volley and not really keeping score, not really looking at the lines, but just catching up with each other.
Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work
To be a tennis champion, you have to be inflexible. You have to be stubborn. You have to be arrogant. You have to be selfish and self-absorbed. Kind of tunnel vision almost.
In the States, tennis is sixth or seventh on the totem pole as far as sports go.
The next point - that's all you must think about.
My first job was in sixth grade, sweeping the clay tennis courts at the yacht club near my house, which I was not a member of. Always had to pay my own rent. But I don't really have any concept of how money works. I don't know how much things cost. Like a BMW. Or a quart of milk. It's embarrassing.
I was always in the tennis business-from 1968. I was in tournaments and also on World Team Tennis teams as well.
A smile is a curve that can straighten out a lot of problems.
