I never thought tennis was going to give me so much satisfaction.

When I got to match point in the final I was afraid I'd be a little nervous, but I just said, You have to stay focused, just think about what you have to do.

I have an office in Argentina, I go there every day, so I work.

I didn't know what was going through my mind.

Tennis has had a very positive impact on my life.

Perfect harmony of body and mind are my key to personal balance and happiness.

I was a very shy and introverted person, and it was hard for me to talk to people and make relationships.

The difficult part was to tell the world that I was finishing.

I played Mary Joe Fernandez in the semifinals. She was winning the first set. Second set was very close. I started to play this aggressive game. I think I surprised them.

There were so much affairs of me created by the media... of course I was not always a true single. I had some relations, once also to a famous pop star.

I think in the lifetime of a tennis player there are many times where you feel that tremendous confidence.

Thus like a Captive in an Isle confin'd, Man walks at large, a Pris'ner of the Mind

A handful of lion-hearts can wake the whole world up.

More and more people think of the critic as an indispensable middle man between writer and reader and would no more read a book alone if they could help it than have a baby alone.

All the really good players I know, they all knew right from wrong. So many of them don't learn that at home nowadays.

Every good mathematician should also be a good chess player and vice versa.

I pulled the trigger twice, cutting off his protests, and Finn joined my lover on the floor.

My running ambition is to keep doing it until I'm way past the point where I have any business running. Just to keep doing it throughout my whole life—to stay fit and feel good.

I don't think his hands could take the abuse.

Your life's course will not be determined by doing the things that you are certain you can do. Those are the easy things. It will be determined by whether you try the things that are hard.

They say the chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. The chains you put around yourself now have enormous consequences as you go through life.