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.

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

I am not looking to be understood or liked. Like me or not, I don't care. I am an outsider, that is the way I was brought up.

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

I think my greatest victory was every time I walked out there, I gave it everything I had. I left everything out there. That's what I'm most proud of. I can't go win Wimbledon anymore, so if what I've done in the past is not good enough, let it go. Because I'm certainly not sitting around thinking about it.

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

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