I am just trying to get biblically stronger.

As long as there's pasta and Chinese food in the world, I'm okay.

All of the Spaniards are really talented. I don't know what they eat.

You can work really hard, but if you're not training in the right way you're not going to improve and get to the level that you want to.

If you quit once, it's so much easier to quit the second, third, fourth time.

When you give your best, that's all you can ask of yourself, all that people can ask of you and all that god desires from you. No matter what the result, walk with your head held high.

I see tendencies, I see body language.

I was always really strict on myself about doing everything possible to prepare for competition.

Hard work is the only way to go. Strive to be the best you can be and remember that when you try your best, you can't ask any more from yourself, and people can't ask any more from you.

I am actually nondenominational.

I look at tennis as a bit of a platform to hopefully touch lives and encourage people.

Those honor nature well, who teach that she can speak on everything.

Give generously.

Just because our opinions on what is right are different, doesn’t make me evil.

Old as she was she still missed her daddy sometimes.

If you have an impossible dream, a dream that cannot be fulfilled, the friendly thing for me to do is to put a stop to you wasting your life at it.

We were trying to increase the conflict that was already happening... we felt that we would take the conflict to so high a level that some change had to come.

The bishops eat from my hand.

Cats know, comin' out of four, they better be standin' on it, else they'll be standin' in it.

Without the religious element, life is like an engine running without oil-it seizes up.

I think being an artist and taking on those challenges is just how it is for me. Because I was always a foreigner, I was always the outsider.