When you have the opportunity, you strike.

An otherwise happily married couple may turn a mixed doubles game into a scene from Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf.

Manners are manners. Jimmy Connors and Ilie Nastase have no respect. I don't want my kid seeing Nastase play. The demeanor you show on the court is important to tennis.... Maybe we (yesterday's stars) were too stereotyped. But we were told to behave or they'd take our racket away.

There's a lot of ingredients go into being a good tennis player.

When you've got your man down, rub him out.

The next point - that's all you must think about.

I like to let my racket do the talking.

I often surprise myself. You can't plan some shots that go in, not unless you're on marijuana, and the only grass I'm partial to is Wimbledon's.

The roughest thing I ever said to an umpire was, 'Are you sure?'