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

You'll hear a lot of applause in your life, but none will mean more to you than that applause from your peers. I hope each of you hears that at the end.

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.

It never seizes to amaze me how much I enjoy playing here and how much you fans have meant to me over the years.

I had my moments for sure but I wasn't confrontational. And sometimes you get on the court and you'd find yourself very confrontational. It was all a discovery.

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.

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