In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do rather than what you are.

I was nervous and confident at the same, nervous about going out there in front of all those people, with so much at stake, and confident that I was going to go out there and win.

In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do rather than what you are.

Being champion is all well and good, but you can't eat a crown.

I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I just want to be reasonably successful and live a normal life with all the conveniences to make it so.

I hope that I have accomplished just one thing: that I have been a credit to tennis and my country.

The loser is always a part of the problem; the winner is always a part of the answer. The loser always has an excuse; the winner always has a program. The loser says it may be possible, but it's difficult; the winner says it may be difficult, but it's possible.