“I went to play in Brazil when I had just turned 18 and was the world's...” — John McEnroe Quote

I went to play in Brazil when I had just turned 18 and was the world's top junior player. I got to the airport, and no one knew who I was. I couldn't speak any Portuguese, and no one spoke English. Then someone said something that resembled 'tennis,' and I went with that.

If you're out there and things are going badly, are you going to cry or break down?

I'm a tell-it-like-it-is kind of person; I don't like being misled or someone not telling the truth. That upsets me.

London is great, but New York is the greatest city in the world.

I didn't get along with most of the players I played against, but the one guy I did get along with was my greatest rival, so it can be done.

Before I became a parent, I was a bestselling author and speaker pounding up the escalators of a different airport every week.

I always thought when I hit 50 years old that'd be it for the travel. I don't have to tell you - you wait at an airport, your flight's delayed, get on a 14-hour flight, get off, get stuck in traffic, you get to the hotel and the room service is closed.

The people of this country remember me. I may have started dyeing my beard, but I am recognized at airports, railway stations - anywhere. School textbooks have chapters on me, and somehow the sobriquet 'The Flying Sikh' has endured in people's memory.

I've gone on Twitter, and I've seen a picture of me walking through the airport, or some random picture, and the person's like, 'Oh my God. I just saw Chilli.' They just take a picture, and it lets people know where you are. It's just crazy to me even when people do that.