Life will throw everything but the kitchen sink in your path, and then it will throw the kitchen sink. It's your job to avoid the obstacles. If you let them stop you or distract you, you're not doing your job, and failing to do your job will cause regrets that paralyze you more than a bad back.

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

It's always been eclectic; you never know what you're going to get.

To be inspired - that's the secret.

You've got to believe you can win. But I believe respect for the fact that you can lose is what you always have to keep in mind so that nothing suprises you.

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

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.