For much of the year, you're just trying to maintain your fitness. It's not often you get a lot of time to really concentrate on improving it.

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.

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.

A bitter critic is the sweetest corrector.

Never accept the situation where you have the light but sufficient only for yourself! You must have an abundant light so that you may give to others!

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

You're likable enough, Hillary.

He who has a true idea, knows at that same time that he has a true idea, nor can he doubt concerning the truth of the thing.

You can't have a rigid view that all new taxes are evil.

Agitation and commitment are dangerous for the peace of humanity, and the only thing which is even more dangerous is their absence.

The deeds of men never escape the gods. [Lat., Acta deos nunquam mortalia fallunt.]

I thought about it for awhile, hiding it from the rest of my mind. But I didn't ruin my birthday by secretly thinking about it too hard

If you think down, you will go down. If you think up, you will go up. You’ll always travel in the direction of your thinking.