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

You have to remember that I played longer than anybody else on the main tour; I played until I was 40, and then played another six years or so on the seniors tour.

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.

I hate to lose more than I love to win.

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

Tennis was always there for me, which was lucky. I would go play baseball, basketball, football, hang with my brother, do whatever, and at the end of the day I'd come back and say, 'Hey, Mom, would you hit 15 minutes worth of balls with me?'

I like any title with the letters U.S. in front of it. To me, the U.S. Open is the most important tournament in the world.