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.
I used to pretend that I was Tom attacking Jerry who was drawn on the ball
I'm about the present.
You have to want to play it all day every day to get to the top.
What I put in the stock market I dont have to touch in my lifetime. I want to live off my bonds. I want to be that safe.
Life is not worth living if I cannot have pasta or bread again.
I don't like salads: I like the strong food.
I have this terrible dark side to my personality which playing tennis keeps at bay
Tennis is pretty unforgiving if you are carrying weight. You are expected to wear short skirts and you are compared to all these 16 and 17-year-olds.
If you look at tennis the girls have become much more attractive; they wear makeup. In my generation you were a tennis player. It wasn't like you had to look a certain way.
As a top player you have to keep your emotions in check. You think you can control everything.
I never really did Christmas before. Christmas Day? I mean - what's that? What's it all about? I was always flying on Christmas Day.
I would like to thank all my tennis fans who were there from Day One when I was No. 1 through my stabbing and my comeback.
Tennis is so competitive. I guess that's the way it has to be.
Madonna has total control over her life and not many women have that
I don't believe in playing hurt in taking injections to cover the pain.
I think for me food was a way for me to deal with emotional trouble.
I did realise more than ever after the stabbing that tennis is a business - a tough business.
I did realize more than ever after the stabbing that tennis is a business - a tough business.
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 love new restaurants; I love trying out new foods.
I'm 5 feet 10 inches and whatever my whatever my weight is that's fine. As long as I am able to move and I feel good it doesn't matter.
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 never knew I was grunting it was just part of my strokes.
I am lucky to have advisers whom I trust.
I lost my dad way too early and it was agonisingly awful. I missed him so much and I hated knowing that I could never again pick up the phone to tell him about my day.
That's the key to success isn't it? It has to be fun.
It doesnt matter who is playing or how old they are. I just worry about what I can control. It doesnt give me more or less motivation.
It doesn't matter who is playing or how old they are. I just worry about what I can control. It doesn't give me more or less motivation.
Tennis has to become everything to you if you're going to make it to the top. You have to live it.