I used to pretend that I was Tom attacking Jerry, who was drawn on the ball

People think I must have been so talented at an early age, but I don't know - was it talent or hard work? Who knows?

It's a drag having to wear socks during matches, because the tan, like, stops at the ankles. I can never get my skin, like, color coordinated.

You will never have great tennis champions from England because of the cold and dark, but most of all because people only care about the sport for two weeks a year, and then they're on to something else. There's just not a great love of the sport there

Tennis has to become everything to you if you're going to make it to the top. You have to live it.

As you know, I was one of the original grunters. But Jimmy Connors used to grunt way before I was born. I never knew I was grunting, it was just part of my strokes.

You have to want to play it all day, every day to get to the top.