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?

I don't like salads: I like the strong food.

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

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.

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

That's the key to success, isn't it? It has to be fun.

I don't believe in playing hurt, in taking injections to cover the pain.