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" Sometimes you get hungrier when you taste it. "

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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. "

" 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. "

" I can't speak for other people, but I still hate losing. When I did lose, I found it easier to yell than to cry. Guys aren't supposed to cry, are they? "

" The greatest compliment I ever got was when people called me an artist, and I understand that solo aspect of being an artist, when you're in there by yourself, trying to do something great, and people who don't even know you can come up and just dump on you. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" The good part of having six kids is, there's always one who wants to hug you and say, 'Daddy, I love you.' "

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

" 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. "

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

" Do you have any problems, other than that you're unemployed, a moron, and a dork? "

" 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'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. "

" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" I was always taught that you needed to be intense and never lose your focus. "

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

" There's always a concern when you play the week before a major. That's not the easiest time for a scheduler or a promoter, I would think. "

" 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. "

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