I take pleasure in tennis and the hope that it requires.

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.

All the answers to your questions about what your goals can and should be lie within, so does your power to accomplish those goals.

Pain is like love

This isn’t Soviet Russia. This is America we’re talking about. For God’s sake, this is New York City.

Goods can serve many other purposes besides purchasing money, but money can serve no other purpose besides purchasing goods.

There is extraordinary similarities between the Midwest in America and Europe in that there is this sense of vast, open sky and loneliness and cold.

Sometimes I believe that this less material life is our truer life, and that our vain presence on the terraqueous globe is itself the secondary or merely virtual phenomenon.

The most practical, the most dignified way of going on in the world is to take people at their word, when you have no positive reason to the contrary.

All the buried seeds crack open in the dark the instant they surrender to a process they can't see.

The people who were really important are the ones whose names are forgotten. And that's true of every movement that ever existed.

[On President Bush's plan to get to Mars in 10 years] Stupid. Robots would do a better job and be much cheaper because you don't have to bring them back.