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" I like to be close to water and the ocean, particularly. I love to get out and body surf. I like mountain biking, too. "

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" 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. "

" I don't take myself as seriously as I did when I was playing, and it works, and I think people see the self-deprecation in my commentary. "

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

" Look at Becker and Djokovic. If you look at Novak's record since Boris has been there, it's been phenomenal. "

" They should be required to be in less events; there should be less events for the women. It seems it takes an actual meltdown on the court or women quitting the game altogether before they realize there's a need to change the schedule. "

" Kyrgios has got to look in the mirror if he wants to become a top player and win Grand Slams. "

" If you look at the top 100 players, you would see that the great majority of them have had at least a couple of surgeries. That tells me that we have to protect the players. "

" I don't think enough players channel the energy of the crowd. If it's done properly, and you don't let anger overwhelm and distract you, it's like a shot of adrenaline in the arm, and it gets the crowd pumped up. "

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

" 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. "

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

" It's ironic - people used to want to suspend me and talk about how bad my behaviour was, but now they like it when I shout and scream. "

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

" I had a similar year back in 1984 when I felt like I couldn't lose. "

" I'd like to be the commissioner of tennis, but do I want to get into politics? Sometimes I have delusions of grandeur that that would be an interesting, good thing. I'm talking about actual politics, like being a congressman, but then I see how unbelievably nasty it really is, and maybe I'm not quite knowledgeable enough to actually do it. "

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

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

" Why don't they go back to wood racquets? Then we would see the best tennis to be played. "

" There was a line call that didn't look so great. I went ballistic. Called the umpire a jerk. Whacked a ball into the stands. Then smacked a soda can with my racket, and got soda all over the King of Sweden, who was sitting in the front row. "

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

" Sometimes my negativity worked to my advantage, and early in my career, it got me going. But you need to understand that you're not just fighting opponents, you're also fighting yourself. "

" Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people. "

" 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. "

" I thought doubles was a good way for me to practice and get some reps in - I didn't like to train in the gym as much as players these days. "

" I was a Yankee fan until 1981. That was the year the Yankees were two up on the Dodgers and lost four straight. And George Steinbrenner apologized to the city. "

" The sting of losing is bad. "

" Tennis was a white, upper-class sport, and I wanted it to be treated like other sports were. "

" 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. "

" 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. "