I always insist on my jeans being ironed. Is that a problem?

With everything else that would swirl around me when I got involved in it, tennis was my main concern.

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.

That's something a lot of athletes miss - a lot of them walk away too soon. They don't get everything out of their system. They have a lot of what-ifs when they're sitting around later in life. I don't have that. I got all that out of my system. I pushed it to the brink, I loved it, and when I walked away, I'd had enough.

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

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