Pride is bad, stress is good. I don't want to feel confident. I want to feel rage. Endless, all consuming rage.

I always felt tennis and winning was a byproduct of doing everything right.

Tennis is one of the only sports in America where the sport doesn't grow with the size of the person - it just forces you to swallow the whole pill.

In tennis you're on an island. Of all the games men and women play, tennis is the closest to solitary confinement.

If Pete’s (Sampras) child is a girl, my son will like her; if he’s a boy, my son will defeat him.

A strong body listens. It obeys. A weak body commands. If your body is weak it tells you what to do. If your body is strong it'll actually listen to you when you tell it to do something. If you build it right you can overcome some of the obstacles of age and recovery.

I envy Pete Sampras's dullness. I wish I could emulate his spectacular lack of inspiration.