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.

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 appreciate a lot in this life; the things you cannot buy. Life is only once. I am happy being here and all the things that are a risk I normally avoid.

Some people won't have kids, but I’m not going to have parents. I’m burning their birth certificates and defacing their gravestones tonight.

Your skull encloses your brains. But never forget that anytime you open your mouth to talk, you have opened your mind for the entire world to see what is hidden in there!

When you get into bed with evil incarnate, it always takes the covers

My feeling is that poetry will wither on the vine if you don't regularly come back to the simplest fundamentals of the poem: rhythm, rhyme, simple subjects - love, death, war.

Everyone gets the devil he deserves.

I got tired of playing other people's songs.

Terrific marriages are completely respectful, transparent and loyal.

When I heard Coleman Hawkins, I learned to play ballads

The cost of procrastination is generally far greater than the cost of making mistakes.

The television set's on while the family's sitting around having dinner or talking. Nobody's watching TV; it's there; they're aware of it, but they're not participating. That's passive.