If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment... quality is important because it read more

If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment... quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life.

I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I Love to play.

I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I Love to play.

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all read more

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.

You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.

Most skiers are really motorcyclists in cute clothes.

Most skiers are really motorcyclists in cute clothes.

It is alright to be disappointed, but a winner can never allow himself to be discouraged.

It is alright to be disappointed, but a winner can never allow himself to be discouraged.

Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same read more

Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding and maddening - and it is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented.

I'm glad you're doing this story on us and not on the WNBA. We're so much prettier than all the read more

I'm glad you're doing this story on us and not on the WNBA. We're so much prettier than all the other women in sports.

There was endless action - not just football, but sailboats, tennis and other things: movement. There was endless talk - read more

There was endless action - not just football, but sailboats, tennis and other things: movement. There was endless talk - the ambassador at the head of the table laying out the prevailing wisdom, but everyone else weighing in with their opinions and taking part.