You cannot compare your athletic achievement to the importance of children and giving them a safe environment in which to grow up and enjoy life.
Each heartfelt prayer, each Church meeting attended, each worthy friend, each righteous decision, each act of service perfomed all precede that goal of eternal life.
Choose a field that will supply sufficient remuneration to provide adequately for your companion and your children. I bear testimony that these criteria are very important in choosing your life's work.
It's just nice to see people enthusiastic about their tennis and want to learn and improve - for me that's the most important thing - I still love my tennis.
The Bible makes it clear that every time that there is a story of faith, it is completely original. God's creative genius is endless.
If I win seven tournaments in a row, I get so confident I'm in a cloud. A loss gets me eager again.
Relationships are give-and-take, and when you're a tennis player, you're certainly not giving. You have to be self-absorbed. It has to be about you.
My first U.S. Open I think was just very special for me because that was sort of the beginning of what was a 'Cinderella' story for me.
Many of the big changes of the next 25 years will come from unknowns working in their bedrooms and garages...
If I don't practice the way I should, then I won't play the way that I know I can.
My serve and my forehand I pretty much always had, but my backhand was a made backhand. I worked on it for years.
Many times the players get in there and it's just about as well as they could have done, and other times they get in there and they favorites and they don't win.
I like old tunes when I'm driving. They're fun and uplifting. Billy Ocean, that kind of thing.
I am not looking to be understood or liked. Like me or not, I don't care. I am an outsider, that is the way I was brought up.
Sometimes the ATP puts a lot of pressure on the players and sometimes you get injured because you play on a dangerous surface. Nothing happens, no one pays for that.
Me, Billy Crystal and John Goodman hang out non-stop, and all we do is silly voices. We hang out in a little closet and do voices together.
I never enjoyed making videos, even though the 'Total Eclipse' video was nominated for a Grammy along with the song. We lost out to the 'Billie Jean' video.
Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up.
You win any which way you can. You do what you have to do to get by. That's the way it works in any job.
If we can make some kind of adjustments, maybe in the game, to make it interesting and slow down the surfaces, then it will be more fun and more interesting.
You know, I eat, I ate pretty well anyway so, I'm basically living the same, I just curtailed the stupidity.
