I got bad calls every match, and I never got an apology. So I thought it was rather strange.

If I don't practice the way I should, then I won't play the way that I know I can.

If you lose, it hurts, but as long as you have fought hard, you can still feel good about yourself.

If you become great, then you can become happy. If you're happy first, it's much more difficult to be great.

He's a haircut and a forehand.

In tennis you move a lot. Golf you dont. In tennis, you can have a bad half-hour, but you cant in golf. You can lose the first set in tennis and still win.

If you go to school and practice for five days a week, it still gives you two days you can go and see your friends, you can go to the movies, you do whatever you like to do.

Once you win, you have no doubt that you can win. So you have gone through it once, and you can do it again.

I was between 2 and 3 in the world for two, three years. That's not exactly where I wanted to be.

I believe the brain is like a muscle - like any other it can be improved.

Too many people asking too many questions in tennis. Golf is better.

The words ran away with me.

Anger only gets in the way.

Just as meekness is in all our virtues, so is pride in all our sins. -Oct 1986

You always absorb a lot from a great actor. What you want, as an actor, no matter where you are in your career, is a partner who's going to bring everything they have to the scene.

When I was on the 'Mickey Mouse Club,' there was Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake and Ryan Gosling and Christine Aguilera. But they were 12 and I was 17, so there was a bit of an age difference.

I just get on with my game and let the referees do their job.

Accident is design / And design is accident / In a cloud of unknowing.

Take characters that Nicholson or De Niro play: they're not always tough

The important thing is to keep playing, to play against weak opponents and to play for big stakes.

To notice people's deceptions yet not reveal it in words, to bear people's insults without showing any change of attitude-there is endless meaning in this, and also endless function.