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

Tennis was always sort of a - a learning. It was a vehicle for me to discover a lot about myself.

Now that I've won a slam, I know something very few people on earth are permitted to know. A win doesn't feel as good as a loss feels bad, and the good feeling doesn't last long as the bad. Not even close.

I'm going to go down swinging... I'm sure as heck not going to go home and say I had a bad tournament.

Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work

First of all, let me say, 1:15 in the morning, for 20,000 people to still be here, I wasn't the winner, tennis was. That's awesome. I don't know if I've ever felt so good here before.

My accomplishments do not live up to my tennis game. Most people have to work really hard and win some big matches, and then they get money and popularity. For me it has been the reverse of everybody else. The exact opposite.