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

" 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. "

" I happened to be one of those guys who doesn't play much golf. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" The mistake, if I made one, in the late 1980s, was thinking I needed to change my game. "

" The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. Life is a learning process and you have to try to learn what's best for you. Let me tell you, life is not fun when you're banging your head against a brick wall all the time. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'll let the racket do the talking. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I'm going to vote for Obama. I'm going for the change. "

" When I felt I was rejected by my first wife, and she said, 'Some day you will thank me for this,' you know what? I do. And so, sometimes it is darkest before the dawn. You can think it is bleak and you can't see. You never know. "

" I always got along with Borg, who was my greatest rival. People like to see me and Connors, me and Lendl, go at it. We didn't like each other. "

" 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 am someone who gets pretty worked up. "

" I believe there's only one autobiography you can do. "

" I didn't serve and volley until I got to Wimbledon in '77. "

" I would have thought that a woman would have become president before a black man. "

" 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. "

" I grew up watching Dr. J, and I was like, 'Oh my God, this guy is the greatest basketball player I ever saw.' "

" This taught me a lesson, but I'm not quite sure what it is. "