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" I can barely remember what I was like 36 years ago when I was 21 years old. "

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" I haven't seen a professional player come out of New York in over 20 years since my brother Patrick came out. Blake spent a few years in Harlem, but he moved to Connecticut when he was a kid. "

" I would put tiebreakers in the fifth set, no question about it. "

" To be involved in a senior tournament back in the States is very satisfying. "

" Things slow down, the ball seems a lot bigger and you feel like you have more time. Everything computes - you have options, but you always take the right one. "

" Well I think that's probably one of a few, where I grew up in the City of New York, it's got a lot of energy, my parents are Irish-American so there was a bit of yelling going on in my house but it seemed normal. "

" I'm sure a lot of players say it, but winning is almost so you don't lose. The thrill of winning is not as great as the pain of losing. "

" You're asking too much of the women. They shouldn't be playing as many events as men. If tennis is best served by women playing events with men, so be it. "

" In general, people are administered drugs too readily. "

" I thought if I looked back and evaluated my life, it would help me in the future. "

" Nadal is one of the great champions - a class act. "

" The only thing 'championship' about Wimbledon is its prestige. "

" No other athlete in any sport has ever had to go through what I have to. "

" London is great, but New York is the greatest city in the world. "

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" Maybe I should have played two more Australians and two less Davis Cups? I could have had more majors and still have three Davis Cups when most people don't have one. "

" If people do things without thinking them through, that rubs me up the wrong way. "

" We should reach out to people to try to go after the fans the way other sports do. Because we can't just depend on the fact that it is a great game. "

" One of the things I respected about Connors was that one second he would be spewing a four-letter word, the next second he would do something that had people falling off the aisles. Yet he never seemed to lose his concentration. "

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" You hit a wall at some stage when you don't want it so bad, but you don't know when that's going to be - as far as competition or as far as health is concerned. Sometimes it's just natural. You just taste it, and you want it so bad that you find other gears. "

" Nick Kyrgios, if you don't want to be a professional tennis player, do something else. "

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