21 quotes found
“Tennis is the loneliest sport”
“Control what you can control.”
“The most animated talks we have are aboutthings”
“The most animated talks we have are about…things”
“You don't cheat anybody out of their experience, whatever it is.”
“Frankie's chief virtue in my book is the way he talks about his kids.”
“It's no accident, I think, that tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love, the basic elements of tennis are those of everyday existence, because every match is a life...”
“There are many ways of getting strong, sometimes talking is the best way.”
“I stand and feel an overpowering urge to forgive, because I realize that my father can't help himself, that he never could help himself, any more than he could understand himself.”
“Only boxers can understand the loneliness of tennis players - and yet boxers have their corner men and managers. Even a boxer's opponent provides a kind of companionship, someone he can grapple wit...”
“Older people make this mistake all the time with younger people, treating them as a finished product when in fact they are in process.”
“Given all that lies beyond mycontrol, I obsess about the few things I can control”
“I address the trophy and the warped reflection: All the pain and suffering you've caused me.”
“I find it surreal, then perfectly normal. I'm struck by how fast the surreal becomes the norm. I marvel at how unexciting it is to be famous, how mundane famous people are. They're confused, uncert...”
“I've been let in on a dirty little secret: winning changes nothing. Now that I've won a slam, I know something that very few people on earth are permitted to know. A win doesn't feel as good as a l...”
“A ball feels different off every player's racket-there are minute but concrete subtleties of force and spin. Now, hitting with her (Steffi Graf), I feel her subtleties. It's like touching her, thou...”
“Walking to the net, I'm certain that I've lost to the better man, the Everest of the next generation. I pity the young players who will have to contend with him. I feel for the man who is fated to ...”
“Maybe I don't know yet how to be happy and play well at the same time.”
“I slide to my knees and say, "Please let this be over." Then, I'm not ready for it to be over.”
“Qu lindo es sonar despierto, he says. How lovely it is to dream while you are awake. Dream while you are awake, Andre. Anybody can dream while they're asleep, but you need to dream all the time, an...”
