I play each point like my life depends on it.

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 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.

I appreciate a lot in this life; the things you cannot buy. Life is only once. I am happy being here and all the things that are a risk I normally avoid.

Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.

A life path may have strange twists and turnings, and we do not always end up where we intend to go....

Love will commit, or love will commit suicide.

To attain eternal happiness one must suffer. He who has reached the state of self-sacrifice has true joy. Temporal joy will vanish.

When a soldier is hit by a cannonball, rags are as becoming as purple.

To the very last, he [Napoleon] had a kind of idea; that, namely, of la carrière ouverte aux talents, - the tools to him that can handle them.

I hope I never need to believe in God. It would be an awful confession of failure.

Either we reduce the world's population voluntarily or nature will do this for us, but brutally

When people have eating disorders, they can't actually see what they truly look like because they're so clouded with their emotions.

We are all born like Catholics, aren't we—in limbo, without religion, until some figure introduces us to God?