I know what it’s like to be married and to live in a house with a garden, but it’s not something I’m striving for at the moment.
For a year, I had all sorts of weirdos coming on to me.
I don’t know how many millions of photographs have been taken of me.
I drew my strength from fear. Fear of losing. I don’t remember the games I won, only the games I lost.
The fifth set is not about tennis, it’s about nerves.
I met with my lawyers. They gave me all the wrong advice. For a long time I refused to accept the child was mine. I should have met her, arranged a DNA test and accepted my responsibility.
How do you build a relationship when you’ve hardly shared a word but suddenly share a child? How do you love a daughter you don’t see for nearly two years? When does she become your daughter? How does she become your daughter?
Girls are a distraction and can easily cost points.
Every time you are not practicing someone else is.
When you are thrown onto the stage at 17 in such an enormous way, it becomes living on the edge because every step you take, every word you speak, every action you do becomes headline news. And it became, for me, life or death.
I believe that everything in life happens for a reason.
Andre Sa is playing close to his potential – maybe even above it.
The eyes of some of the fans at Davis Cup matches scare me. There’s no light in them. Fixed emotions. Blind worship. Horror. It makes me think of what happened to us long ago.
I lost in the second round of the French Open and had 10 days off. I went to the Hard Rock Cafe. It was exciting to be away from my parents, to stay in a hotel. Hotels at 17 meant freedom.
Where do you go when you’re the best in the world? What’s next?
The boys are so powerful off of the baseline now that they don’t have to come to the net to finish points. That’s the reason we went to the net. To finish the point. Nowadays, even the big guys can hit winners four feet behind the baseline.
I had the pleasure of competing at the Olympic Games and at Wimbledon and was fortunate enough to win the gold medal in both events,
If I go into a club now, all the blonde girls leave my corner and all the black girls come into my corner. It’s as if I’m racist towards white girls!
[Roger Federer] We have a guy from Switzerland who is just playing the game in a way I haven’t seen anyone – and I mean anyone – play before. How fortunate we are to be able to see that. If he stays healthy and motivated – and the wonderful feel he has stays with him – he is the kind of guy who can overtake the greatest.
I don’t really care what the man on the street thinks. I never did anything to please him in the first place, and I’m not going to start now.
I didn’t start a war. Nobody died.
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