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

I hate to lose more than I love to win.

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

But why should I read what somebody else thinks of my life when I know the real story?

I can't say that I was my happiest on court, but I felt completely free. Free from family obligations, free from my own torment. In a real sense I was a different person. It was a place where I could not tolerate the idea of being beaten. I psyched myself up into a state where I felt something close to hatred towards my opponent, a state where I detested the idea of someone making his name at the expense of Jimmy Connors. I was in my element on court, measuring myself against someone else. I was not competitive for show. It came from deep within.

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

People don't seem to understand that it's a damn war out there. Maybe my methods aren't socially acceptable to some, but it's what I have to do to survive. I don't go out there to love my enemy. I go out there to squash him.