Tennis was never work for me, tennis was fun. And the tougher the battle and the longer the match, the more fun I had.

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

I never lost a tennis match, I just ran out of time

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.

Nothing's perfect along the way [in life], and you ride the ups and downs. It's how you come out of those and continue on that I guess really matters.

I don't go out there to love my enemy. I go out there to squash him.

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