I don't read all the newspapers.

It's about you. If you win, it's you; if you lose, it's you. Black and white. Nowhere to hide.

The downside isn't really injury, fear of injury or the process of fighting back from injury. The downside, the very worst thing in the world, is surgery.

You win any which way you can. You do what you have to do to get by. That's the way it works in any job.

Basically, it's just fatigue, ... I've run out of gas a little bit. I've played a lot this summer, and the body's just telling me I'm fatigued.

I'm really looking forward to getting back and winning some matches but I'm not thinking about the U.S. Open yet, just getting through my first match.

If I stay healthy and I'm playing good tennis I have as good a chance as anybody.

It is a big adjustment but I've always loved that old saying of Jack Nicklaus: 'I retired from golf to go to work.' That sums it up for me.

My biggest problem will be lack of match toughness but I am a positive, optimistic person.

I'm happy in retirement.

When you're young, you don't know what you don't know, so it's easier to get into that magical thing.

Lift up your heads, ye people, lift up your faces, too, open your mouths to sing His praise, and the rain will fall on you.

Your outlook affects your outcome

Be kind to express your love for life. No reason is needed to be kind.

Your mind is a wonderful tool for creating what your soul wants. Use the tool, don't let it use you.

If heaven is within you, everywhere you go you will find heaven!

The frail, vulnerable sounds of which we are capable seem to be essential to a later ability to roar like a lion without scaring everyone to death.

This crusade, this war on terrorism is going to take a while.

And your skin, it tastes like me. I want to taste you everywhere.

I did an instrumental jazz album. That was my first album.

It is one thing to say Jesus is all you want; until He is all you have and you discover He is all you ever needed.