“I don't know much about Mauresmo apart from the fact she played great ...” — Rod Laver Quote

“I don't know much about Mauresmo apart from the fact she played great tennis. Is she a good technician? I don't know those parameters.”

“The time your game is most vulnerable is when you're ahead; never let up.”

“I'm usually pretty good in the garden.”

“It occurred to me that it would benefit me to play without emotion - well, without emotion others could see, anyway. Card players profited from having a poker face so opponents wouldn't know how good or bad their hand was, and I figured a deadpan expression would work in tennis, too.”

“Right through school, I was a handy cricketer, a batsman and a left-arm spinner who bowled leg breaks.”

“Forty years ago, the players were like a travelling circus - we went everywhere together and were pretty good friends.”

“Some of the wives didn't keep up with the program. It started breaking apart during the Apollo days.”

“Apart from flamingos, pineapples are my favourite motif. They're up there with cacti and palm trees as my most used emojis.”

“Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?”

“War tore my family apart.”

“London is the headquarters of the International Maritime Organisation, the location of the largest insurance market, and houses a significant ship-broking community, apart from the many other professional services related to shipping.”

“I think that people should never be ashamed of wanting to move on with their lives and move on from their partners. I have a lot of girlfriends who were married in their early 20s and are now divorced because they basically grew apart - they evolved into another person in their 30s.”