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

There is only one number one. It is a lonely spot but it has got the best view of all.

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.

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

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

I can't say that I was my happiest on court, but I felt completely free. Free from family obligations, free from my own torment. In a real sense I was a different person. It was a place where I could not tolerate the idea of being beaten. I psyched myself up into a state where I felt something close to hatred towards my opponent, a state where I detested the idea of someone making his name at the expense of Jimmy Connors. I was in my element on court, measuring myself against someone else. I was not competitive for show. It came from deep within.

Playing in front of 25,000 people and millions more on television, and performing and doing what I worked so hard to try to accomplish was, in my opinion, the ultimate. Do I miss it? Of course I do.