I can't worry about match too much. There's nothing I can do.

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.

The artist has the master picture in his mind, before he begins to paint.

Fear is excitement without breath.

I don't want to live and die with every point that's being played out there now. I'm going to let my coach live and die with every point.

Generally, I find that when you're writing and having fun with the writing, that energy and dynamism is going to come out in the text one way or another.

We're all living on borrowed time. The trick is to come up with works of sufficient interest to pay off the debt.

Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.

We must create wealth and we must cut our deficits.

Writers themselves don't analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope.

You lack a foot to travel? Then journey into yourself - that leads to transformation of dust into pure gold.

I was raised in the church by my grandmother who made sure we went to Sunday School, read the Bible and went to church every Sunday. Every night we read Bible stories before we went to bed.