This is the only perfection there is, the perfection of helping others.

People who are interested with me have for sure gotten older over the years, for example, grandparents are coming up to me telling me they grew up watching me.

It's shocking how little there is to do with tennis when you're just thinking about nothing except winning every point.

When I was 7 years old I saw Jimmy Connors make someone carry his bag, as though he were Julius Caesar. I vowed then and there that I would always carry my own.

You don't cheat anybody out of their experience, whatever it is.

You know my dad pushed me to believe that I was going to be the best. I just never thought of life without tennis, even looking forward.

Yes, for a long time but I admired her and respected everything that I could sort of see in her from a distance, the pillars of her life, the loyalties, the relationships. It all got my interest and also the looks.