I did always dream of being a professional player. I think every kid does dream of being a pro, but to last the journey you have to love tennis as a sport and if you are lucky enough to make it in the pros, it is really a bonus.
Retiring is getting ready to die.
When I talk of taking a trip I mean forever.
I have to go and say farewell to all the countries that I have been to, if I can. I am 73 now, it is taxing on me.
This is the big one! You hear that, Elizabeth? I'm coming to join ya, honey!
Oh, how hard it must be to die anywhere but in one's birthplace.
I will see this game of life out to its bitter end.
Death calls ye to the crowd of common men.
I do not expect to see home again.
The white sail of his soul has rounded the promontory - death.
Where lies the final harbor, whence we unmoor no more?
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.
I would like to be with my husband together sitting somewhere in a lonely place in the woods and take something, maybe some pills or something, a magic potion and die together.
If die I must, let me die drinking in an Inn.
I think that retirement is the first step towards the grave.
Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
We were with Frank as part of his very last tour.
How will it be when one of us alone Goes on that strange last journey of the soul? That certain search for an uncertain goal, That voyage on which no comradeship is known?
