You kind of live and die by the serve.

If Davis Cup was a little bit less or once every two years, I would be more inclined to play. But the way it is now, it is too much tennis for me.

Golfers are forever working on mechanics. My tennis swing hasn't changed in 10 years.

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.

I don't know how I do it, I really don't.

For so long people have just taken what I do for granted. It is not easy to do year-in, year-out, to win Grand Slams and be No. 1.

Tennis is seen all around the world; if I am home or anywhere in the country, United States, people will stare.

Where I fall down is my short game. I don't practice enough, and when I have to take a half swing from 50 yards out, that's trouble.

There's always one shot that I can rely on when I'm not hitting the ball that well, is my serve.

You kind of live and die by the serve.

It is nice to walk out on a court to have it packed.

I am going to hold serve the majority of the time. It is nice to have a little time to return serve.

The difference of great players is at a certain point in a match they raise their level of play and maintain it. Lesser players play great for a set, but then less.

When you retire you want to get as far away as possible from the game for a couple of years.

I let my racket do the talking. That's what I am all about, really. I just go out and win tennis matches.

People know me. I'm not going to produce any cartwheels out there. I'm not going to belong on Comedy Central. I'll always be a tennis player, not a celebrity.

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.

All I cared about in tennis was winning.

Andre Agassi was my rival in the '90s, and I think as we got older we sort of transcended the game. He was probably the best player I ever played over my career. There's a list of players that were tough, but Andre, certainly, he was the most unique.

I can't just wake up and watch TV and do nothing. I need a day off working out, seeing the wife, play a little golf, see my kids.

I could be a jerk and get a lot more publicity, but that's not who I am.

I did it my way, and I have no regrets when I look back on my career that it was just a big focus for me.

I don't look at myself as a historical icon, but the reality of it is, yeah, I am playing for history now.

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

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've got a great wife, a great life.

I've worked hard my whole life, since I was a little kid. But now it's a point in my life now where I can just enjoy it, but at the same time I still need to work.

It's not easy to retire at 31. In one respect I was glad I was done. But after a few years of having fun, I got a little restless. When you're 33, 34, and you don't have a focus, you can get kind of lost. As a man, you feel a little bit unfulfilled.

It's not my place to tell you whom to vote for, to take any political stand, to tell you what religion to believe in. I'm an athlete. I can influence certain things, but when I see other athletes and celebrities telling you whom to vote for, I actually get a bit offended.

People wrote me off, but I believed in myself. I got the confidence back, and it grew and grew. I won my first major and my last at the place that changed my life.

Retirement is a work in progress. I try to figure out my day, and what I know about myself is that I need structure.

When I committed to playing a little tennis in some exhibitions, it was the best thing for me. It got me in shape. It got me out of the house. It got me doing something I love to do.

I don't reread my books.

The best customer service is if the customer doesn't need to call you, doesn't need to talk to you. It just works.

I live a very secluded life, a very contemplative life and a very meditative one. That is my ideal life.

'Alexander, Who's Trying His Best to Be the Best Boy Ever' was inspired by a combination of my grandson, my son, and myself - all those times when each of us has decided that we're just not going to get into trouble anymore. But it's so hard to be good all of the time!

Although the evidence at this trial shows that Charles Manson was the leader of the conspiracy to commit these murders, there is no evidence that he actually personally killed any of the seven victims in this case.

As all Art depends on Vision, so the different kinds of Art depend on the different ways in which minds look at things.

In 1763 the English were the most powerful nation in the world.

What happened in Queensland is that people are facing high unemployment relative to other states - 5.7 per cent when I last checked.

My dad's a scientist, and my mom's a teacher, so I didn't grow up in a family that was into the entertainment world at all.

It would be wrong for us to offer difference from the Conservative Party at the cost of credibility, but equally it would be wrong to offer credibility at the cost of being clear that there remain very fundamental differences.

And one thing about Mick Jagger is he keeps his eye very closely on not only where the dollars go but where the pennies go.

I think whatever art form you're in, whether TV, film or theater, you should know the history of who came before you and how the art form has changed or not changed and to learn from the greats.

National Missile Defense is of a nature to retrigger a proliferation of weapons, notably nuclear missiles. Everything that goes in the direction of proliferation is a bad direction.

Gratitude will shift you to a higher frequency, and you will attract much better things.

Men and women, women and men. It will never work.

I grew up in a world where the majority of people were black, so that wasn't the defining quality of anyone. When you're describing someone, you don't start out with 'he's black, he's white.'

I've realized you can use a fork as a spoon if you use it rapidly enough.