Fatigue roughens up the edges of your nerves; it exposes your fears and your weaknesses.
In the locker room I was getting impatient to get on the court, I had to warm up several times.
I did all the right things in so many tournaments. But like I said, sometimes in sports it just goes the other way. Maybe you've already won so much that it evens it out a bit sometimes. I don't know.
Watching a movie a couple of weeks ago. An American movie. I can't remember the name, but it wasn't even a sad movie. It caught me off guard. I was on an airplane.
Every match I go into, I'm the huge favorite. I lose a set and it's, like, crazy.
One of my big, big strengths I think early on in my career was that I could learn very quickly. You wouldn't have to tell me the things 10 times or 50 times until I would understand them. You would only have to tell me two or three times.
What I think I've been able to do well over the years is play with pain, play with problems, play in all sorts of conditions.
There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.
The writing is clean. I really wouldn't have changed a word. Most of it is true, too, except that the hero quits drinking and the girl grows up. On the last page, the couple gets married, which is a nice way for a love story to end.
I don't make friends with the girls I'm playing against. It would be too painful to beat them.
I’ve never sung anywhere without giving the people listening to me a chance to join in - as a kid, as a lefty, as a man touring the U. S. A. and the world, as an oldster. I guess it’s kind of a religion with me. Participation. That’s what’s going to save the human race.