I should have been a country-western singer. After all, I'm older than most western countries.

Should I be the one to play God? We're both about the same age, but we grew up in different neighborhoods.

None of us kids had a middle name. We were lucky we had any name at all. By the time my mother got around to naming one, there was another on the way.

Just because you're old that doesn't mean you're more forgetful. The same people whose names I can't remember now I couldn't remember fifty years ago. . .

Tennis is a young man's game. Until you're 25, you can play singles. From 25 to 35, you should play doubles. I won't tell you exactly how old I am, but when I played, there were 28 men on the court - just on my side of the net.

There's an old saying, 'Life begins at forty.' That's silly. Life begins every morning you wake up.

Everything that goes up must come down. But there comes a time when not everything that's down can come up.