“Martina and I went through a very bad five years. Everything’s very good between us now, but it was a long haul.”

A girl didn’t get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time.

Champions take responsibility.

I will tell you King’s First Law of Recognition: You never get it when you want it, and then when it comes, you get too much.

In 1973, a woman could not get a credit card without her husband or father or a male signing off on it.

I always liked co-ed events best so we have two men and two women on each team.

Pressure is a privilege … it’s what you do with it that matters.

I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.

Some people do have softer boundaries.

It’s really impossible for athletes to grow up. On the one hand, you’re still a child, still playing a game. But on the other hand, you’re a superhuman hero that everyone dreams of being. No wonder we have such a hard time understanding who we are.

At 62 you want to keep moving; that’s important.

You do have to get players every year. You have to deal with calendar. You have to deal with all kinds of things in our sport, like every sport does.

I have a lot to say, and if I’m not No. 1, I can’t say it.

Every generation I think gets better usually [in tennis].

Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life.

Ladies, here’s a hint. If you’re up against a girl with big boobs, bring her to the net and make her hit backhand volleys. That’s the hardest shot for the well-endowed.

It’s your birthday today, so what would you say, if we turned that frown upside down

Qualifying is all about putting everything that you have and that the car has in one lap. It’s like a rush, I really enjoy that.

To get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else is to become an understanding molecule in evolution, a conscious tool of the universe.

In my life, I’ve seen everything, and one thing I know for sure is you can’t win in the federal court.

I’m a mama’s boy because everything I do is with respect to my mother.

Everything that goes up must come down. But there comes a time when not everything that’s down can come up.

After 10 weeks away from Formula One, when they started the engine here at Valencia and everything was vibrating,

When you create circumstances together, when you try everything, then you can lose. But you need to show the importance.

Everything is traditionally slow – much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.