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

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

People don't seem to understand that it's a damn war out there.

Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it.

Back in East St. Louis, tennis wasn't the real thing. If you weren't playing baseball, basketball, football, you were kind of on the outside.

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

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