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I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments.

If I can get a story about a player, I would give you a ship load of numbers, batting averages and all just for that one precious story. That's the kind of thing that I love to do.

I would like to thank all my tennis fans who were there from Day One when I was No. 1, through my stabbing, and my comeback.

I don't want to be Babe Ruth. He was a great ballplayer. I'm not trying to replace him. The record is there and damn right I want to break it, but that isn't replacing Babe Ruth.

I want my tennis to speak for everything.

Tennis has given me this wonderful life and I'm very grateful for it.

I'm not an athlete, I'm a baseball player.

Music is my sport, and I'm the number-one athlete.

I was a professional athlete, the best baseball player in the world at one point.