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" I was always fighting the establishment, trying to run through brick walls. "

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" It's one thing if you live in London and you're rooting for Chelsea or you're in New York and you love the Giants or Jets and no matter who's on the team you're into it. It's different in tennis; you're sort of your own guy, so you have to reach out and grab a person in a different way. "

" 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. "

" The older I get, the better I used to be. "

" When I walk out there on court, I become a maniac... Something comes over me, man. "

" I think the players, I put in the book for example that we should go back to wood rackets, probably they laughed at me, I'm a dinosaur, but I think that you see these great players, have even more variety and you see more strategy, there'd be more subtlety. "

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

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

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

" I'm generally happy, although my kids and wife may sometimes argue with that. "

" If Roger stopped right now and never won another match, to me he'd already be one of the greatest players to ever play the game. To me, he's the greatest all around talent that I've ever seen. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You can't give away points and games against someone like Murray. You're not going to make it to the top with that kind of effort. "

" 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. "

" If you really want to get it more exciting, no linesmen. And have the players call their lines. That would make the game more exciting, I promise you. It would be awesome. "

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

" I like John McCain, or he seems like a cool guy in a lot of ways. I don't agree with a lot of his policies, but he still seems like a cool guy. "

" The best way I knew how was to give 110% and want it more than them, and walk on the court and every moment of the match feel like it was the end of the world, in a sense. So that worked for me in a lot of ways. There were times that it hurt me, but for the most part, it helped me. "

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

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

" I am someone who gets pretty worked up. "

" When I came on the tour, I thought, 'Why don't they treat tennis players the same way they look at football players?' Because I've got news for you: when they are on the pitch, they are not saying, 'Hello, how are you?' out there. "

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

" When I was 25, if you'd have said I was going to be a commentator, that would seem like, 'Oh, my God. That's a huge step down.' "

" 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'd love to see all the guys play their best because I think it's better for tennis. "

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

" What I've realised is that you can run miles, jump on a bike, lift weights, and all that other garbage, but the bottom line is that you get in tennis shape by playing tennis. You build the right muscles, and I don't believe people can do it as successfully any other way. "

" Women have it better in tennis than any other sport, but you shouldn't push them to play more than they're capable of playing. "

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