A believer may pass through much affliction, and yet secure very little blessing from it all. Abiding in Christ is the secret of securing all that the Father meant the chastisement to bring us.

I don't play any tournaments to come second best.

It's not the end of the world to lose.

In tennis, it is not the opponent you fear, it is the failure itself, knowing how near you were but just out of reach.

I used to think that losing made you more hungry and determined but after my success at the Olympics and the U.S. Open I realise that winning is the biggest motivation.

You have to go into each match believing you can beat all of the players.

Give it everything you've got. Leave nothing out there.

Where resources are plentiful (i.e. no constraints), you will find very little creativity. Where resources are scarce (i.e. many constraints), you will find an abundance of creativity.

I'll be supporting anyone but England.

I think most players would love, at one stage in their career, to say, 'I've been No. 1 in the world.

I've realised over the years I play my best when I have time to prepare for each tournament as best as possible.

KING, n. A male person commonly known in America as a "crowned head," although he never wears a crown and has usually no head to speak of.

We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it's not just my way or the highway.

I can smell bullshit from a mile away but it's so much harder to detect when it's around you all day.

Some things we forget. But many things we remember on the mental screen, which is the biggest screen of all.

But al be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre.

I'm quite an insecure person and need reassuring all the time.

When I'm at craft services, I make the best-tasting,10-layer meat and cheese sandwich with no bread.

The current tax code is a daily mugging.

If you want to achieve some really big and interesting goals, you have to learn to fall in love with hard work.

On parochial school I was told I had an overabundance of original sin.