I believe you should give 100% on the court, so I chase every ball.

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.

Having their feelings make sense is how people get their kicks.

Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist war.

Pretty soon the only people left without a girlfriend will be me and Wendell the school janitor, and he smells like windex." "At least you know he's still available.

I listened for the echo, and I heard only praise —

He was so excessively polite that Wallendar suspected he had endured many humiliations in his life.

I make it a point to go home every weekend so I can meet with Georgians and hear from them directly.

I think my parents' lives are worthy of writing about. I don't think my life is particularly worthy of writing about.

It is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature.

You have to be quite brave to write about something that you honestly feel and think.

Do you think if people knew how crazy you really were, no one would ever talk to you?