I always felt tennis and winning was a byproduct of doing everything right.
I'd accomplished everything I had set out to do - winning the French and Australian Opens, the Olympic gold medal and the Davis Cup. So I said to myself: 'Why don't you try another year and see if you can enjoy your tennis like you did once?' And I've been doing it.
I'm a big fan of the Rocky series. Given the chance, I'd love to meet Sylvester Stallone. But apart from boxing, I'm an ardent fan of tennis and football.
I'm only seeing tennis balls these days. And maybe the occasional fashion sketch.
Tennis has always been a big challenge to me and to be able to play that kind of tennis - well, only tennis can produce these feelings for me.
Id rather be able to play great tennis at a slam than make eight finals of little tournaments and then lose first round of a slam. That doesnt sound too good.
I'm super, super casual. I like boxer shorts or jeans or tank tops, tennis shoes and flip flops. That's about it for me.
Tennis is for me joy, nothing less than that.
People don't ask Andre Agassi, 'You know you're the No. 1 tennis player in the world... have you thought about polo?'
Wimbledon is the world's most boring tournament. There's hardly anything to do apart from tennis. You constantly find yourself yawning - there's no entertainment here.
The poet Melvin B. Tolson once said "A civilization is judged only in its decline." That made sense to me. I would imagine the same is true for poets and tennis players.
I'm about the present.
Sport doesn't know barriers, really. You are judged on your performance... how far you can jump, how fast you can run, how well you can hit a tennis ball.
In this job it's like beasts of prey in a cage
When you have to react to a lizard that's a tennis ball, it's a really, really difficult, tricky piece of craft.
[On a strained relationship between a tennis champion and her mother:] There comes a time when it's probably not cool for your mom to be your best friend.
I always had a powerful serve. It's one of the best in women's tennis. It's very good to have a weapon like that.
Unbelievable, yet, what else could it be?
The trouble is you can't play many matches when you lose them.
Every generation has its own Goran. So I was the Goran of this generation.
I still break racquets, but now I do it in a positive way.
I really like the smell of the tennis balls, the new ones. I don't need to do it, but it's just my habit, what I do on the court when we change for the new tennis balls. I just smell them. Maybe it's for luck. I've been doing it all my life.
Like a Volvo, Bjorn Borg is rugged, has good after-sales service, and is very dull.
The Benson and Hedges Cup was won by McEnroe ... he was as charming as always, which means that he was as charming as a dead mouse in a loaf of bread.
It's very expensive to be a professional tennis player with all the travel and the flights and the hotels and everything.
