The crowds can be very loud, especially when you're playing in the evening.

I'm telling you, it's so exciting playing out there because I'm playing well, you have the crowd behind you, and it's such a good feeling. I'm really having a good time out there.

I've been here playing against Connors and it can be very, very loud. It makes it exciting at the same time.

As years go by, chances of winning here are getting slimmer. That's just a matter of fact. It does get tougher, but it's possible, there's a tiny little chance.

A win is a win.

A good thing is I've been playing tennis I think every day for the last two months. I really haven't had a day off. I've been doing things that I did used to do.

I felt better being in the background. That's the way I like it.

I've been in a lot of trouble and come out of it. I think it shows a lot of good character.

I played Chang here under the lights here. I think that was '91. Another good match. I've played a lot more good matches under the lights than I played bad. You tend to remember some of the bad ones unfortunately.

If you serve well, your volleys are going to be so much easier. It has got to do with confidence, obviously.

I think in 1991, when Jimmy got to the semifinals, it was just incredible all of the people coming out.

I'm really trying to focus myself on playing tennis, and I think that's really important.

I'm always being realistic.

The crowds can be very loud, especially when you're playing in the evening.

You lose some, you win some. Nothing wrong with that at all.

I felt that I did have the crowd behind me. That obviously helps a lot.

Since a month, two months ago, you know, I've started hitting the ball well. I'm playing some really good tennis. That really helps. I sort of have to motivate myself to get pumped up. It really helps my game a lot.

I've been on the tour for many, many years. It's time for me to go now, before it's too late.

If I'm going to be out there, I want to be in the top 10 and really have a chance of winning a Grand Slam.

For me, and most of the other players, too, if you had to pick one of the four Grand Slams, you would pick Wimbledon. It's got tradition, it's got atmosphere, and it's got mystique.

I had one good racket, a Wilson Javelin. It was my favorite racket, and I made the mistake of putting it next to the heater. It just got so hot that it melted.

I'd won the Australian Open twice, but winning Wimbledon takes something special.

It was a tough year for me, '89, losing two Slam finals and losing another five finals. It wasn't until I won the Masters, or what's now called the ATP Finals, that things changed again. Suddenly I won seven tournaments in 1990 and became No. 1.

Once you succeed in tennis, financially you become quite well off.

I like people-watching and fading into crowds.

We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.

As they marched, the crowds lining the route broke into applause, a sweet and deeply felt spontaneous pattering that was a sort of communal embrace. Welcome home.

The adoring crowds and overwhelming Democratic support in the 2008 election was based largely on joy at jettisoning Bush and the appeal of electing a superbly qualified charismatic African American leader.

You know, to address crowds and make promises does not require very much brains.

I think in New York we had respect and we would pretty much fill up the places where we went, but I never got the sense that we really were Number 1 here in New York among the Latin crowds.

If there is a look of human eyes that tells of perpetual loneliness, so there is also the familiar look that is the sign of perpetual crowds.

I just play to the people I can see. So it's almost like you are playing to the first few rows of the crowd. You can see the faces of the first hundred people, but then it becomes a blur as the crowds disappear over the hill.

She was built for crowds. She has never come any closer to life than the dinner table.

I get very anxious and am scared in crowds and things like that.

We know that Europe loves President Obama. He had adoring crowds. The press loves Obama. The question is how will this date end? Okay? The question is, to what end? Why do they love President Obama? They love his personal story, they love his wife. North Korea, China and Russia don't really care about Michelle's arms and, you know, whether they gave an iPod to the Queen, okay?

In 1982 when I showed up, the average age of the drivers in the series was something like 40, 41. The crowds were small. There was not much prize money. The competition wasn't very tight.

I found myself getting more publicly shy when the gala events and big crowds started. Some people embrace it. To me, it's not worth enough to risk my private life being public.

Where there had been only jeers or taunts at first, crowds come to listen with serious and sympathetic men.

Since that first showing of Foolish Wives I have seemed to walk through vast crowds of people, their white American faces turned towards me in stern reproof.

For me, winning isn't something that happens suddenly on the field when the whistle blows and the crowds roar. Winning is something that builds physically and mentally every day that you train and every night that you dream.

The street to obscurity is paved with athletes who can perform great feats before friendly crowds.

There are no crowds out there demanding to see smoking scenes in movies.

I always said that when it was time to retire, I would know it, and I would just tip my hat to the crowds.

I'm good friends with The Rock, and I talk to him all the time. And he says that, even though his movie career has taken off, he misses the instant gratification of wrestling, and the live crowds, and I could see being that way myself.

Then you get to be involved with all the people, meet all the beautiful girls, get all the good food, get ready and locked in before all the crowds hit.

When I'm on tour, I'm in a new city every single night, and the energy and the crowds and the kids and the screaming and them knowing every single word of my music and being onstage is such an energetic feeling with a big payoff.

I hate crowds of people pretending to be happy on one night of the year, where they get drunk and obnoxious by the end of the night.

With the crowds on your side, it's easier to play up to your potential.

I love to play smaller crowds with the Rhythm Kings.