I can't become satisfied, because if I get satisfied, I'll be like, "Oh, I've won Wimbledon, I've won the U.S. Open. Now can I relax." But now people are really going to be fighting to beat me.
When I'm playing my best, like I was at the U.S. Open, I feel on top of the match and able to do exactly what I want. There are other times when you're not in control, but that is tennis and you have momentum changes in every single match.
I don't need to come back to Wimbledon every year because I can't live without it. I'd be totally cool without tennis.
I used to cut guitars out of a piece of cardboard to copy the Strat look. I used a backwards tennis racket for a while and graduated to the cardboard cutout.
My tennis is aggressive, though I wouldn't say that it's more physical than technical. I rely more on technique than physique, but being physical is always a help to me.
You know, a lot of things changed. What never changed is the illusion to keep playing tennis, the illusion to keep doing well the things, and the illusion to be in a good position of the ranking and play these kind of matches.
I take pleasure in tennis and the hope that it requires.
If you can't take a punch, you should play table tennis.
This woman was so cross-eyed. She can go to a tennis match and never move her head.
My role is to think about tennis and to help Serena Williams be the best she can be and do what she wants to achieve.
I haven't been in tennis for that long, but what I can say is that we have a lot of young guys at the top who are willing to do a lot of good things for tennis in general.
I remember as a kid, I was improvising and making little trophies out of different materials and going in front of the mirror, lifting the trophies and saying 'Nole was the champion!'
I never knew I was grunting, it was just part of my strokes.
I have this terrible dark side to my personality, which playing tennis keeps at bay
Tennis is so competitive. I guess that's the way it has to be.
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.
Swinging at daisies is like playing electric guitar with a tennis racket: if it were that easy, we could all be Jerry Garcia. The ball changes everything.
If she gets the jitters now, then she isn't the great champion that she is.
I'm not involved in tennis but committed.
When I was 4 my mother got divorced and we were very close to each other. I always wanted to be with her. She took me everywhere. When she went for dinner with friends or when they had meetings at the tennis club, I was always there.
I always have a Sharpie, because usually when someone asks me for an autograph, they don't have a pen. I carry one in my purse, as well as in my tennis bag.
Roger [Federer], he brought tennis... one level higher. Normally he toys with everybody. With all respect to other players, he does whatever he wants on the court against them. It's incredible what kind of game he can play.
I don't think tennis is a glamour game, not at all.
Tennis is best of three sets, so even if I lose the first set, I still have a chance.
People often put me in a V-neck tennis club sweater, driving a Bentley, but my life wasn't like that.
