Don't think about being the number one in the world, try instead to get through today's program as well as you can. Then we will see whether one day you'll end up as number one or number 100.

The glory is being happy. The glory is not winning here or winning there. The glory is enjoying practicing, enjoy every day, enjoying to work hard, trying to be a better player than before.

Losing is not my enemy..fear of losing is my enemy.

The only way of finding a solution is to fight back, to move, to run, and to control that pressure.

If somebody says I am better than Roger, I think this person doesn't know anything about tennis.

I play each point like my life depends on it.

I learned during all my career to enjoy suffering.

You have to accept both losing and winning well. I've stayed calm when I'm winning and I've stayed calm when I've lost.

I always had the theory that the most important thing is be happy, enjoy what are you doing, and be fresh mentally.

Anyone could become a star, but everyone must be a human being.

I always work with a goal - and the goal is to improve as a player and a person. That, finally, is the most important thing of all.

When You Live Life Too Early, You Learn Life Too Late.

There was the smell of old books, a smell that has a way of making all libraries seem the same. Some say that smell is asbestos.

For of this world one never sees enough and to dine in harmony with nature is one of the gentlest and loveliest things we can do.

Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don't tell them.

Consequently, their school [film-school ] was the school of life, and it was very much reflected in their work.

...the power-loving temperament is more dangerous when it either prefers or is forced to operate in what is materially a void. Wehave everything to dread from the dispossessed.

People often tell me I could be a great man. I'd rather be a good man.

I can't believe that I get to stand on the stages I stand on every summer, and get to sing the songs that I sing.

My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.

We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.