[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...

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

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

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

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

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.

No, like I said, my dad was never really part of the tennis. His involvement around what I did with the tennis and with my mom and my grandparents was really not a part of my life.