I hate to lose more than I love to win.

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.

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.

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

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

Nothing is like being out there and playing and performing and winning - nothing. But to have an interest in the player? The nerves and everything that goes with it? Seeing what he's learned and how he's done it? That's the second best thing to playing. I think.

I was never part of the crowd.