I'd much rather win in three or four sets than go the distance all the time. I seem to put everyone through the wringer quite a bit.

That's when you've got to grit your teeth and hang in there and try and find a way to win when you're not playing your best tennis - that's what I can be proud of

Even when I was No. 1 in the world, I was taking it one match at a time. I never was a player to look too far ahead, the way draws can pan out.

When I go out to play, I still believe I'm as good as anyone out there. I don't have to prove anyone wrong. I know what I've done and how well I can play.

I'm fortunate: I can play as long as I want to play. There's no coach or trainer who is going to say to me that I'm dropped or sacked, it's time to move on. I can play as long as I want to play.

Matches are won and lost so many times in the locker room.

When I was a kid in Adelaide, I dreamed of becoming No. 1 in the world, winning a grand slam and the Davis Cup for Australia.

I was lucky enough to win the Davis Cup in my first year in 1999. I won my first slam at the U.S. Open in 2001 and became world No. 1 later that year. By the age of 20, I'd done it all.

I'm not a guy who needs to read motivation books.

Everyone has to call 'time' at some stage.

That's what you do all the hard work for, to play in situations that put your body through gruelling times. If you're not up to it, pull out.

Life is a journey of a cell enjoying the beauty of this universe.

There are hundred reasons to worry but the only way to keep out of this 'net' of worry is to pray.

No truth, no equality. No equality, no justice. No justice, no peace. No peace, no love. No love, only darkness.

Revelation is a pastor’s letter to his floundering flock, an urgent telegram bearing a brilliant battle plan for a people at war.

We stood side by side, and for that minute, in the stillness of that room, he was not the King. I was not not the Princess, taken against her will to the City. We were two people trying to forget.

He (Chuck Smith) was leery of music that moved the body more than the soul.

It's important to underscore this overriding fact: women are not just victims of conflict-they are agents of peace and agents of change.

If anyone travels on a road in search of knowledge, Allah will cause him to travel on one of the roads of Paradise.

I'm the minority in my house sometimes. My wife is Swedish, and we go to Sweden and everyone is rattling off in Swedish. It's like, 'OK, I can just read a book.'

This life will never be without storms. Stop fearing the storm. Build your inner shelter.