Rather than viewing a brief relapse back to inactivity as a failure, treat it as a challenge and try to get back on track as soon as possible.

The minute you think you know everything about tennis is the minute your game starts going down the tubes.

It was okay for Wayne Gretzky's dad, for instance, to give him a hockey stick, or Joe Montana's dad to give him a football, or Larry Bird's dad to give him a basketball, but it wasn't okay for Gloria Connors to give her son a tennis racquet.

Equality? They ought to play the women's final on opening day. Everybody knows who's going to be in it.

For the last five or six years the most important thing in my life has been my family.

I've been kicked in the teeth more times in tennis than the law ought to allow.

Big money encourages tanking. In my opinion, tanking is going on even with a lot of the top guys today - it's quite evident.