[In the modern game] you're either a clay court specialist, a grass court specialist or a hard court specialist... or you're Roger Federer...

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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