A good thing is I've been playing tennis I think every day for the last two months. I really haven't had a day off. I've been doing things that I did used to do.

If you serve well, your volleys are going to be so much easier. It has got to do with confidence, obviously.

I've been in a lot of trouble and come out of it. I think it shows a lot of good character.

I've been here playing against Connors and it can be very, very loud. It makes it exciting at the same time.

The crowds can be very loud, especially when you're playing in the evening.

As years go by, chances of winning here are getting slimmer. That's just a matter of fact. It does get tougher, but it's possible, there's a tiny little chance.

I'm telling you, it's so exciting playing out there because I'm playing well, you have the crowd behind you, and it's such a good feeling. I'm really having a good time out there.

I felt better being in the background. That's the way I like it.

I'm really trying to focus myself on playing tennis, and I think that's really important.

Once you succeed in tennis, financially you become quite well off.

I've been on the tour for many, many years. It's time for me to go now, before it's too late.

I had the endless day, months and months of endless days, and yet my return date bounded this sense of boundlessness, kept it from becoming threatening.

I learned the rules mastered them like a pro. Then break them easily like an artist without any trouble." ― Sage Canny

If you lust after someone and have an absurd and overwhelming need to protect them, then the best way to deal with the situation is to marry the person.

Not writing the same kind of book over and over again is to me the real pleasure of what I do.

The simplest way to do something cool is the cross-turn. Like in the '80s - Michael Jackson did it. You jump and cross your legs together at the same time, and then spin out of it. That's it.

My mom always told me that if you work hard, you can achieve anything. And it's true. It's one of the truest things ever.

Fiction and poetry expose intimate things from a person's life every bit as much as memoir does, and sometimes more. I don't quite see or live the distinction you are making about the forms.

In the partnership between ourselves and the horse there must be one ruling spirit, and that one must be the rider.

What were you two doing last night, discussing the national debt?

When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.