I used to hear a lot that all I could do was hit a serve, I couldn't volley, I can't hit a backhand, I don't return well, and then people would turn round and tell me I'm underachieving.

At one point in your life, you'll have the thing you want or the reasons why you don't.

In the States, tennis is sixth or seventh on the totem pole as far as sports go.

You can get the true essence of New Yorkers by just hanging out in Central Park

My serve has killed a small dog ... I'm joking, I'm joking! The dog was huge!

If I can break one out of every three return games, I'm going to give myself a shot in a lot of matches.

Once you get to a certain level, anybody can beat anybody else on any given day.

I'm convinced being a tennis analyst is the easiest job in the world.

The key to the match might have been his serving. Maybe I should have concentrated harder on watching them go by me, I don't know.

I enjoy hitting tennis balls. I haven't lost any of the innocent parts of tennis. I just do it in front of less people.

I'm not going to go run and hide because I'm catching some heat. I'm not going to stay at home and pout.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

The only thing that I miss lately in all music is somebody that will put out a melody that you can whistle. It doesn't seem like there's anything happening like that.

We cannot solve the problems of America if every time somebody somewhere says something stupid, that everybody gets up in arms and we forget about the war in Iraq or we forget about the economy.

Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence

Subjective conscious mind is an analog of what is called the real world. It is built up with a vocabulary or lexical field whose terms are all metaphors or analogs of behavior in the physical world.

As it is natural to believe many things without proof, so, despite all proof, is it natural to disbelieve others.

As my friend George Oppen once said to me about getting old: what a strange thing to happen to a little boy.

The first step toward becoming extraordinary is, of course, to stop being ordinary.

I always give the example, if you turn on the radio today, black radio, Lenny Kravitz is not black. Bob Marley wasn't black: in the beginning, only white college stations played Bob Marley.

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