Sachin was so focused. He never looked like getting out. He was batting with single-minded devotion. It was truly remarkable. It was a lesson.

Whoever said, 'It's not whether you win or lose that counts,' probably lost.

I know some of my self-worth comes from tennis, and it's hard to think of doing something else where you know you'll never be thebest. Tennis players are rare creatures: where else in the world can you know that you're the best? The definitiveness of it is the beauty of it, but it's not all there is to life and I'm ready to explore the alternatives.

I've been in the twilight of my career longer than most people have had their career.

Just by being out you're doing your part. It's like recycling. You're doing your part for the environment if you recycle; you're doing your part for the gay movement if you're out.

The mark of great sportsmen is not how good they are at their best, but how good they are their worst.

In Czechoslovakia there is no such thing as freedom of the press. In the United States there is no such thing as freedom from the press.