I never wanted to be the great guy or the colorful guy or the interesting guy. I wanted to be the guy who won titles.

I hate to lose, and I do whatever I can to win, and if it is ugly, it is ugly.

What I've done in the game is always going to stick, no matter what happens.

In tennis, you can make a couple of mistakes and still win. Not in golf. I played three rounds in that Tahoe event, and I was drained. Mentally, not physically.

The way I hold the club, I've got my hand way over, like I'm driving a motorcycle. My Kawasaki grip.

After I went through two years of not winning an event, what kept me going was winning one more major. Once I won that last U.S. Open, I spent the next six months trying to figure out what was next. Slowly my passion for the sport just vanished. I had nothing left to prove.

The way I look at the top five, (Rod) Laver, (Roger) Federer, myself, Borg and (Ivan) Lendl. I think those five guys dominated their generations better than anyone. Maybe Roger will dominate better than any one of the other four. Maybe I put Andre (Agassi) as kind of six through 10 with, you know, (John) McEnroe and (Jimmy) Connors, kind of those guys. That's kind of how I see it.