He'll go down as one of the guys who changed our sport in a lot of ways, not only the way he played the game, but also the way that he conducted himself on and off the court.
There were many occasions in my career where I could have given up, where I asked myself whether I would ever make it.
I'm the sort of person who keeps a lot to myself.
The great part about tennis is you can't run out the clock.... As long as we were still playing, I had a chance.
The roughest thing I ever said to an umpire was, 'Are you sure?'
Tennis has given me soul.
Tennis was never work for me, tennis was fun. And the tougher the battle and the longer the match, the more fun I had.
I let my racket do the talking. That's what I am all about, really. I just go out and win tennis matches.
It's like love. When you look too hard, you don't find it. When you let it happen naturally, it comes.
I just try to concentrate on concentrating.
Tennis is an addiction that once it has truly hooked a man will not let him go.
You have to believe in yourself when no one else does.
The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.
Almost everybody's here doing the same thing. Who am I to come up with an excuse when there's 64 other players here doing the same thing? 63 others, sorry.
I'll let the racket do the talking.
To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when no one else will.
I'm not afraid of anyone, but sometimes I'm afraid of myself. The mental part is very important.
What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.
Losing is not my enemy..fear of losing is my enemy.
I have always considered tennis as a combat in an arena between two gladiators who have their racquets and their courage as their weapons.
If you can keep playing tennis when somebody is shooting a gun down the street, that's concentration.
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.
New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up.
When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again.
I'm not lucky. If I play another player, even if I don't play really good, I think I can win.
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