I'm on the road so much that I don't get to spend as much time there as I would like.

I don't play any tournaments to come second best.

It's not the end of the world to lose.

In tennis, it is not the opponent you fear, it is the failure itself, knowing how near you were but just out of reach.

I used to think that losing made you more hungry and determined but after my success at the Olympics and the U.S. Open I realise that winning is the biggest motivation.

You have to go into each match believing you can beat all of the players.

Give it everything you've got. Leave nothing out there.

Where resources are plentiful (i.e. no constraints), you will find very little creativity. Where resources are scarce (i.e. many constraints), you will find an abundance of creativity.

I'll be supporting anyone but England.

I think most players would love, at one stage in their career, to say, 'I've been No. 1 in the world.

A believer may pass through much affliction, and yet secure very little blessing from it all. Abiding in Christ is the secret of securing all that the Father meant the chastisement to bring us.

I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all.

Life is beautiful, so celebrate it like the gift that it is.

Jesus had to reveal what prayer was not, before He taught what it is.

Piper: it looks like we have hole. Percy: Yeah we've got a dam hole! (LOL-ing) Piper: What! Percy: Inside joke. (still LOL-ing) Piper: Whatever.

I'd rather do my own performance than copy someone else's.

I am this bundle of what has been, and what has been accomplished.

I don't think I came out of anybody. I think I developed out of the influences I described in My Dark Places. American history, L.A. of the 1950s. I'm comfortable with that.

I think I am becoming incapable of being too surprised. But it just makes me sad and sick.

Your life follows your attention. Wherever you look, you end up going.

Maybe that's what we look for in the people we love, the spark of unhappiness we think we know how to extinguish.