I look at tennis as a bit of a platform to hopefully touch lives and encourage people.

As long as there's pasta and Chinese food in the world, I'm okay.

All of the Spaniards are really talented. I don't know what they eat.

You can work really hard, but if you're not training in the right way you're not going to improve and get to the level that you want to.

If you quit once, it's so much easier to quit the second, third, fourth time.

When you give your best, that's all you can ask of yourself, all that people can ask of you and all that god desires from you. No matter what the result, walk with your head held high.

I see tendencies, I see body language.

I was always really strict on myself about doing everything possible to prepare for competition.

Hard work is the only way to go. Strive to be the best you can be and remember that when you try your best, you can't ask any more from yourself, and people can't ask any more from you.

I am actually nondenominational.

I am just trying to get biblically stronger.

Don’t be afraid. Fear limits YOU and YOUR VISION.

It's this place. Whatever darkness came to the island, it's here to stay. Stick around long enough and it gets inside your skin, into your cells, like an infection.

Wasn't much of a life anyway. Wasn't much of a brain.""But didn't you say you were satisfied with your life?""Word games, " I dismissed. "Every army needs a flag.

The conquered roam free in the box of insanity.

Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.

The newspaper is a greater treasure to the people than uncounted millions of gold.

People care about my fame, not me. But that's fine. I have my own life.

The tragedy of marriage is that while all women marry thinking that their man will change, all men marry believing their wife will never change.

Old among the young, poor among the rich, I adopt an air of indefinable superiority.

To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to cast aside millennia of moral teaching.