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" I can tell you from experience that when you get that pent-up and crazed, it can be distracting. "

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" My best tennis at my peak was when I played a lot of matches. "

" Sitting there clapping and smiling... it's difficult. You're like, 'Don't worry about it, you just double faulted, you just played a really dumb point. Keep positive.' Then more clapping. That would annoy me as a player. "

" 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've never seen a good tennis movie. They all were terrible. "

" There's a certain beauty and majesty to Wimbledon. The elegance, the way the grass looks on TV. "

" What made my matches against Borg and Connors interesting was, comparing it to boxing, it was like a puncher and a counter-puncher. "

" 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. "

" What I think is frustrating for Americans is that it feels like more was going to change with Obama. "

" If they think I'm better at commentating than I was as a player, then I must be pretty darned good at commentating. "

" I would not have an event before the majors. I would build them up. It very rarely happens that a player plays the week before, wins the event, and then goes on to win the slam. "

" I did a terrible job of composing myself. I was a spoiled brat from Long Island who benefitted from the energy of New York. "

" 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. "

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

" I think it's the mark of a great player to be confident in tough situations. "

" 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. "

" You look at a guy like Michael Jordan: I can't believe there will be other basketball players like him. "

" I remember when I was younger taking more pride in Wimbledon than the French. That and the U.S. Open - they were the ones I wanted to win. "

" Of course for your main rivals, you're going to get extra motivated for it, particularly if you haven't played him for a long time. "

" I'm a tell-it-like-it-is kind of person; I don't like being misled or someone not telling the truth. That upsets me. "

" 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. "

" With commentating, I've had a chance to show the humorous side of my personality that I didn't use on the court. It's fun, and I don't take myself too seriously. I have good broadcast teams with me, but I'm not a huge stats guy. I think they post the numbers too quickly, and I'd rather let the match play out a bit first. "

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

" It means a lot to be back in New York. Particularly since one of the last senior event scheduled in the States was supposed to be here in New York. We were supposed to play in Central Park right after 9-11 and when 9-11 happened obviously things changed. "

" The perception is I didn't get along with umpires, obviously, and I didn't, on the court. But off the court, we had a good vibe. "

" 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. "

" It's only human nature to want to know what you can do on your own or with someone else. "

" If you're out there and things are going badly, are you going to cry or break down? "

" If you yell at your box, I'm not really sure it's something where it should be a penalty. It seems like you hurt yourself. "

" Roland Garros is the only one of the four majors that is 15 days, and that is too long. "

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