“If you’re afraid of losing, then you daren’t win.”

You never know how long Federer is going to play, but in my opinion he has at least one or two more grand slams to win. It depends how long he stays motivated. For me, he is the greatest player to ever play the game.

Tennis is a traditional game. A big sport like tennis does not need too many changes. The game has become too fast, there are hardly any long, interesting rallies these days. So maybe slowing down the courts could help. But you can’t really stop a sport from evolving.

My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.

My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match.

I had a great tennis career. I have no regrets. But to find peace with yourself, and to finally be with your family – I’m probably the happiest guy in the world.

If you’re a good experienced player, you wknow what it takes to do. If you’re in trouble, you know how to change.

I’m an actor who plays an intriguing character, not a political pundit.

You know growing up in Sweden meant we had a lot of rain when we played tennis. We were taught on clay courts but because of the weather, we had to go indoors a lot.

I just hated to lose.

On Rafael Nadal: Every point he plays is like match point. That’s why he’s the champion right now.

Sure you have feelings and you get emotional and angry but I kept everything inside because I think I still had that thought in my mind – I didn’t want to get suspended again

You have to come back strong. But to win the last point in a grand slam tournament, that’s the most beautiful and most satisfying feeling you can get as a tennis player. It’s worth it.

Basically I started playing double handed on both my forehand and backhand side because my first racket was very heavy.

I resent the creation of a world in which beauty is a reminder of what we’re losing rather than a celebration of what we have.

I might be a sand-hog, burrowing away and losing my health for $8 a day. I might be a street-car conductor at $12 or $15 a week.

Lack of patience is probably the most common reason for losing a game, or drawing games that should have been won.

Sometimes when you start losing detail, whether it’s in music or in life, something as small as failing to be polite, you start to lose substance.

But death does not stand at the end of life, it is all through it. It is the fear of losing, the knowledge of losing that makes love tender.

To succeed at selling a losing product, you must develop seriously superior sales techniques. In addition, you have to be massively competitive and incredibly hungry to survive in that environment.

Losing dad (Bobby Bonds) was the worst thing in the world.

The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.