I live where I would like to live. I live in Majorca, Spain, and I am not sure there are better places.

The glory is being happy. The glory is not winning here or winning there. The glory is enjoying practicing, enjoy every day, enjoying to work hard, trying to be a better player than before.

Losing is not my enemy..fear of losing is my enemy.

The only way of finding a solution is to fight back, to move, to run, and to control that pressure.

If somebody says I am better than Roger, I think this person doesn't know anything about tennis.

I play each point like my life depends on it.

I learned during all my career to enjoy suffering.

You have to accept both losing and winning well. I've stayed calm when I'm winning and I've stayed calm when I've lost.

I always had the theory that the most important thing is be happy, enjoy what are you doing, and be fresh mentally.

Anyone could become a star, but everyone must be a human being.

I always work with a goal - and the goal is to improve as a player and a person. That, finally, is the most important thing of all.

You couldn't have fed the '50s into a computer and come out with the '60s.

It was too much work to remember things you might not have again, and so one by one they opened up their hands and let them go.

I don't think I'm even a musician. I don't play a lot of instruments, not really a soloist or anything.

All I asked for was equality and independence. A rotating chairmanship might have been the answer.

I'm crazy about westerns. I need to do a western once in a while. It's like you know, eating bread, eating pasta, drinking wine. It's in my blood. I need it.

History remains an open horizon that cannot be dismissed through appeals to the end of history or end of ideology.

The director is the channel through which a motion picture reaches the screen.

I don't believe in inevitability. But I think it's pretty close to being inevitable...Yes, I think it's probably a near thing.

Obstreperous, ‘huh,” said Tad. “I see you’ve been using that Big Word of the Day calendar I got you last Christmas.” “That is irrefragable,” I told him solemnly.

Barack Obama makes me feel good to be a black man.