So I find that teaching and the students keep life going, and I would never accept any position in which somebody has invented a happy solution for me where I don’t have to teach.  Never.

Yes, in 2018, I was awarded the Breakthrough Prize for the discovery. I was a bit dumbstruck, never expecting that kind of thing to happen. I was keen that the money should be used well and the best way to do that seemed to be to encourage a more diverse research student population from under-represented groups.

They win the respect, the deserved trust, of the people they deal with, and there is huge pleasure in life to be obtained from getting deserved trust. And so the way to get it is to deliver what you’d want to buy if the circumstances were reversed.

Of all the gifts that tennis has given me over the years, the greatest, without a doubt, has been the people I've met along the way: my friends, my competitors, and most of all the fans who give the sport its life.

There is an awful lot of pious theatre at the moment, where you go to have what you already believed reinforced.

I don’t think I am either as ruthlessly selfish as I was then, but I think that unhappiness made me terribly terribly selfish.

Every morning, Monday to Friday, I get up at 7am and make my wife breakfast in bed.

If not, I’ll go to the cinema or answer emails.

I’ve become fonder and fonder of Brian Friel and Faith Healer has sort of become my favourite play.

I took Nicole out to dinner for the first time on 19 October, 1991. After that, everything changed.