New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up.

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

Tennis would be much more exciting if they had pitching machines firing Tennis was given to me to keep me off the street corners of east St. Louis.

The trouble with experience is that by the time you have it you are too old to take advantage of it.

With everything else that would swirl around me when I got involved in it, tennis was my main concern.

I never lost a tennis match, I just ran out of time

[In the modern game] you're either a clay court specialist, a grass court specialist or a hard court specialist... or you're Roger Federer...