The world over - 50 million children start playing tennis, 5 million learn to play tennis, 500,000 learn professional tennis, 50,000 come to the circuit, 5000 reach the grand slam, 50 reach Wimbledon, 4 to semi final, 2 to the finals, when I was holding a cup I never asked GOD 'Why me?'. And today in pain I should not be asking GOD 'Why me?'

Someone once told me that God figured that I was a pretty good juggler. I could keep a lot of balls in the air at one time. So He said, "Let's see if he can juggle another one."

If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the good things that happened in my life.

...I spent many, many hours in...libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were.

We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men.

One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.

If you're paid before you walk on the court, what's the point in playing as if your life depended on it?