Girls are a distraction and can easily cost points.

So this is it. Match point for eternity.

I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I love to play.

If I go into a club now, all the blonde girls leave my corner and all the black girls come into my corner. It's as if I'm racist towards white girls!

I haven't lost a war. No one got killed. I just lost a tennis match.

Every time you are not practicing someone else is.

I met with my lawyers. They gave me all the wrong advice. For a long time I refused to accept the child was mine. I should have met her, arranged a DNA test and accepted my responsibility.

I can't change history, I don't want to change history. I can only change the future. I'm working on that.

Tennis is a psychological sport, you have to keep a clear head. That is why I stopped playing.

I drew my strength from fear. Fear of losing. I don't remember the games I won, only the games I lost.

I don't really care what the man on the street thinks. I never did anything to please him in the first place, and I'm not going to start now.

He who desires but acts not breeds pestilence.

the Sanctuary was reserved for the rich and elite--those with fortunes, not soldiers of fortune.

Fortitude implies a firmness and strength of mind, that enables us to do and suffer as we ought. It rises upon an opposition, and, like a river, swells the higher for having its course stopped.

Be a river - not a reservoir.

The fastball is the best pitch in baseball. It's like having five pitches, if you move it around.

Drug use makes you snappy, and you get very bad-tempered and have terrible hangovers.

If I had a gun, I'd shoot a hole into the sun and love would burn this city down for you.

The nature of our two main political parties has changed in the United States.

I think it's sad, and weird, and strange that [race in casting] is still a thing. It's 2013. Somebody else needs to get their act together.

To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides