I still have this image: I can't be controversial, I can't say things.

Whatever your goal in life, be proud of every day that you are able to work in that direction.

Training the body to obey the mind as I have done differs from the more conventional method of getting the mind to obey the body.

Not every child is cut out for an individual sport.

Competitive toughness is an acquired skill and not an inherited gift.

After being at the top, I don't think I could play senior tournaments, because you know how good you were. I don't know if I would enjoy that, being half of what I was.

Now that I'm losing some, I can see how tough I was -- the killer instinct, the single-mindedness, playing like a machine. Boy, that's what made me a champion.