Tennis has to become everything to you if you're going to make it to the top. You have to live it.
I did realize more than ever, after the stabbing, that tennis is a business - a tough business.
I used to pretend that I was Tom attacking Jerry, who was drawn on the ball
I'm about the present.
You have to want to play it all day, every day to get to the top.
That's the key to success, isn't it? It has to be fun.
I never knew I was grunting, it was just part of my strokes.
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.
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
Tennis is so competitive. I guess that's the way it has to be.
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.
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.
I have this terrible dark side to my personality, which playing tennis keeps at bay
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