The trouble with experience is that by the time you have it you are too old to take advantage of it.

Greatest thing in life: Winning a tennis match. Second greatest thing in life: Losing a tennis match

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

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.

There was never anything I wanted to do more than play tennis. Never once walked out there and thought, 'I wish I was doing something else.' Not once.

It was okay for Wayne Gretzky's dad, for instance, to give him a hockey stick, or Joe Montana's dad to give him a football, or Larry Bird's dad to give him a basketball, but it wasn't okay for Gloria Connors to give her son a tennis racquet.

New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up.