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

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.

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

Rather than viewing a brief relapse back to inactivity as a failure, treat it as a challenge and try to get back on track as soon as possible.

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.

I am not looking to be understood or liked. Like me or not, I don't care. I am an outsider, that is the way I was brought up.